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MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy Public Policy

U.S. Government Takes Action on Puerto Rico

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On July 1, 2016, the U.S. territory, which has been mired in a years-long debt crisis, failed to make good on $2 billion of bond payments due, triggering the worst default in its history. Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro García Padilla has defended the decision to skip the full payment, emphasizing ...

Jul 18, 2016
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MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy Public Policy

Considering Infrastructure Finance

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Given infrastructure’s integral role in enabling high-functioning economies around the world and the concern that the pace of investment is not keeping up with the need for it, I have recently begun to focus my research on the consequences of different approaches to...

Dec 22, 2017
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MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy Public Policy

GCFP co-hosts conference on “Rethinking Federal Credit”

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Federal credit program managers and other subject area experts from government, industry, and academia took part in a recent conference co-sponsored by the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy […]

May 26, 2018
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China’s Growing Local Government Debt Levels

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High rates of debt growth by local governments are a cause for concern in any country. In China, where recent turmoil in the equity and foreign-exchange markets has put a spotlight on that country’s economy and growth prospects, increasing levels of borrowing by provincial and other lower levels of ...

Jan 27, 2016
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MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy Economics

Usable bank capital

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The COVID-19 induced ‘Great Lockdown’ has cast doubt on the efficacy of bank buffers in supporting the real economy in times of crisis. Despite accommodative regulatory and supervisory action, banks remain hesitant to [...]

Jul 7, 2020
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Too Big vs. Too Frail

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When deposits are not completely insured, the presence of too big-to-fail (TBTF) banks alters the competitive landscape for depositors’ funds [...]

Mar 1, 2017
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