MIT GCFP Director Deborah Lucas recently joined Jeffrey Young, co-founder and chief economist of the Fintech company DeepMacro, to discuss [...]
In early 2018, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Media Lab announced the joint appointment of Gary Gensler as Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of […]
by Laura E. Kodres, Leslie Sheng Shen, and Darrell Duffie | The need for US dollar funding during the financial stresses in mid-March 2020, as the COVID pandemic news shocked markets, was evident in a number of countries.
Friend or Foe: Cross-Border Links, Contagious Banking Crises, and Joint Use of Macroprudential Policies
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 […]
To celebrate Women's History Month (March) and International Women's Day (March 8), here are 12 notable quotes from the MIT Sloan alumnae community.
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 [...]
Does the provision of leverage to retail traders improve market quality or facilitate [...]
This January, Doug Criscitello taught a new, for-credit class on the role of the U.S. government as a financial institution. The course touched on the history of government involvement in the credit marketplace, the economic rationale for credit intervention, and the many ways the U.S. government fu...
In the past five years, financial regulators have become increasingly attuned to the necessity for cultural change in the financial industry. Recognizing that [...]
