MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy – The mission of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) is to serve as a catalyst for innovative, cross-disciplinary and non-partisan research and educational initiatives that address the unique challenges facing governments in their role as financial institutions and as regulators of the financial system.

GCFP Fall Newsletter 2018

Highlights include our latest annual conference featuring Ben Bernanke, Stanley Fischer, and others (including a link to watch the livestream); our recently announced contest; new research; and more.

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GCFP launches contest to develop new type of retirement plan for the public sector

The MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy will distribute a prize pool of $20,000 to the winners. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October 24, 2018 – The Golub Center for Finance and […]

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Chester Spatt interviewed on OCC fintech charter

Professor Spatt is the former Chief Economist for the SEC and currently a professor at both Carnegie Mellon and MIT. We had the chance to talk to him about the […]

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Briefs & Blogs

Introducing a new educational tool on housing finance reform

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy’s educational tool on housing finance reform. Proposals for reform have come from both within and […]

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Closing the lending gap will help government and business thrive

With taxpayers at risk for $20 trillion in loans and insured obligations, worth more than the five largest American bank companies combined, the United States government is essentially the largest […]

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Compressing OTC Markets

In the years following the financial crisis of 2007-2008, several initiatives were launched targeting the size and opacity of over-the-counter (OTC) markets. The new regulatory environment resulted in additional costs […]

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