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 [...]
In an article in The Hill, Bob Pozen explores how the recently enacted Cares Act has tax provisions that favor wealthy investors and large companies. There is proposed legislation now in Congress to [...]
In a paper published in the Harvard Data Science Review on May 14, 2020, the co-director of GCFP, Andrew Lo, along with his co-authors Kien Wei Siah and Chi Heem Wong, estimate the probability of success (PoS) of [...]
by Luis Enrique Vivas Martinez / We are pleased to announce the launch of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy’s educational tool on housing finance reform.
The MIT Office of the Dean for Graduate Education website lists additional financial resources for graduate students.
The late Phyllis A. Wallace, a professor in MIT IWER, was a pioneer in researching the economics of discrimination in the labor market.
