The Hill has published the op-ed, “Borrowing for Your College from Your Uncle Sam,” authored by GCFP Executive Director Doug Criscitello.
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.”
In a response to the July 2021 Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Policy Statement on Fair Lending, former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development officials Michelle Aronowitz (Law Office […]
Reverse mortgages are a financial innovation designed to help retirees free up the savings tied up in home equity without being forced to move. Access to those funds can make a big difference in the quality of life for house-rich, cash-poor, retirees. Yet the product has been slow to catch on. A new...
On March 28, 2019, Chester Spatt, a distinguished senior fellow at the Golub Center, testified before the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee as part of its panel on stock exchanges. Spatt […]
GCFP Advisory Board Member Mac McQuown was elected to the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame last week for his groundbreaking work in the field. In his acceptance speech, […]
Chester Spatt, a distinguished senior fellow at the Golub Center, recently authored Proxy Advisory Firms, Governance, Market Failure, and Regulation in his capacity as a senior fellow at [...]
The purpose of this note is to suggest answers to several fundamental questions about value of the federal government’s support for the GSEs.
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...
When deposits are not completely insured, the presence of too big-to-fail (TBTF) banks alters the competitive landscape for depositors’ funds [...]
