The MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter R. Fisher as our Distinguished Senior Fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year. The former Undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury and BlackRock executive will teach a finance course at MIT Sloan and will contribut...
Greece recently failed to pay $1.7 billion due to the IMF, thereby becoming the first developed country to default on an IMF loan. That missed payment represents only a portion of the approximately $23 billion in IMF credit outstanding to Greece, suggesting the ultimate losses to the Fund could be m...
It appears today that facts are not based on absolutes but rather on the sheer number of social media shares and retweets. Charles P. Pierce argues that validity is determined by the decibel of the speaker not the content of the lyrics.
Africa’s financial landscape is undergoing a seismic shift driven by the rapid ascent of digital banking. However, as its influence grows, it is imperative to critically assess whether digital banking authentically fulfills its pledge of inclusivity or inadvertently perpetuates the pre-existing disp...
MIT Center for Finance and Policy Second Annual Conference Financial Products and Policies for an Aging Population September 17-18, 2015 – Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge MA Follow the conference on […]
The advent of mandatory central clearing for certain types of over-the-counter derivatives and margin requirements for others means that margin is the most important mitigation mechanism for many [...]
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 ...
The editors of MIT Sloan Management Review have announced that MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly and University of Minnesota Professor Phyllis Moen are the winners of the publication’s 2021 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize.
MIT Sloan Research Affiliate Barbara Dyer is one of 39 leaders in the field of public administration who have been elected to the 2021 Class of Academy Fellows of the National Academy of Public Administration.
When she was an MIT Sloan Fellow, World Bank Technology and Innovation Officer, earned a memorable nickname from MIT Senior Scientist Andrew Lippman. “We were discussing Facebook. My point was that if Facebook can make tons of money selling my data, why can’t I make money off myself? I just want Fac...
