A conversation covering the systemic issues facing entrepreneurs from marginalized communities and discussed the changes that are needed in our cultural, economic, and educational systems to catalyze their growth.
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CFP Director Deborah Lucas posted this guest blogpost on the Center for Economic Policy Research portal VOX: “Putting an accurate price tag on government credit support.”
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In a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Clem Aeppli and MIT Sloan Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers find that a plateau in U.S. earnings inequality that started around 2012 was primarily due to rapid wage gains by workers at the low end of the labor market,
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Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.
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The Tallahassee-Leon County Office of Economic Vitality tasked a team of USA Lab students with finding better ways to engage minority-owned and women-owned businesses.
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As credit cards have become a popular form of payment method, researchers have noticed an interesting trend. People tend to spend more when using credit cards than cash. Not only are they more likely to buy something at a higher price, they also are likely to give larger tips and make more impulse b...
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To improve outcomes for patients, the Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmia Program at BCH asked H-Lab to assess the economic value of postmortem genetic testing after sudden cardiac death (SCD).
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In order to heighten PhD student awareness of some of the exciting research opportunities in the area of finance and policy, GCFP co-sponsored an intensive capital markets workshop hosted by the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics ...
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Financial regulation is most effective when it targets the origins of the problem it seeks to remedy. This is akin to the medical adage: treat the cause, not the symptom. Identifying the causal factors driving distress in financial markets is no easy task. One complication is that the cause might li...
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MIT GCFP Blog Series
