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The purpose of this note is to suggest answers to several fundamental questions about value of the federal government’s support for the GSEs.
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The MIT Center for Finance and Policy recently announced the winners [...]
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Nearly 250 MIT Sloan alumni and guests gathered in Shanghai on July 19, 2013 for the third MIT Sloan Finance Forum (the first was held in New York in April 2012 and the second was held in London in June 2013).
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Robert Merton (School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management, 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics and GCFP co-director) has long advocated for better ways to save for retirement. His concept of Retirement Security Bonds (RSB’s) would allow [...]
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With the arrival of a new Congress and a new administration, change may be in store for current and former students who have borrowed to pay for higher education expenses. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump indicated a desire to ease the debt burden carried by former students, and Republicans at ti...
The Fall 2022 edition of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) is now available online.
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In September, the MIT Industrial Liaison Program hosted the 2022 MIT Sustainability Conference to confront the reality of global climate risk in the context of the corporate world.
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In surveys conducted since 2018, a larger share of nonunionized U.S. workers than in previous decades report they are neither supportive of or opposed to voting for a union in their workplace. Instead, these workers are uncertain. That’s one of the key findings of a new report published by the Econ...
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The name Angela Davis has been synonymous with radical activism since the 60s. In the intervening years, Davis has channeled those efforts for change into an equally impactful academic career. Now 76, she is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of several in...
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by Ed Golding, Michelle Aronowitz and Jung Choi // This paper demonstrates that Black homeowners on average will pay $67,320 more for their houses because...
