Briefs & Blogs
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Improved Retirement Savings
Robert C. 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 […]
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Why Today’s Inflation Is a Fiscal and Credit Policy Hangover
This blog post is based on a talk presented at the Shadow Open Market Committee on February 11, 2022. The opinions expressed are my own and not those of the […]
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Addressing the role of FHFA in dismantling racial discrimination within the U.S. housing finance system
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 […]
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The Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements Will Hamper Access to Credit: A Further Modification Is in Order
GCFP Executive Director Edward Golding recently wrote with colleagues from the Urban Institute (Laurie Goodman, Jung Hyun Choi, and John Walsh) about how government policy may unnecessarily hinder access to […]
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Analysis of the Proposed 2020 FHFA Rule on Enterprise Capital
In this brief, authors Edward Golding (MIT), Laurie Goodman (Urban Institute), and Jun Zhu (Indiana University and Urban Institute) analyze the recently proposed Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) capital standards […]
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Financing Treasury Debt with SOFR Floating Rate Notes: Is It a Good Idea?
Haoxiang Zhu, Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; Faculty Affiliate of the MIT GCFP and the […]
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Usable bank capital
Alissa Kleinnijenhuis, Postdoctoral Research Associate, MIT Sloan School of Management & Golub Center for Finance and Policy; Research Fellow, Institute of New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford Laura Kodres, Distinguished […]
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Estimating Probabilities of Success of Vaccine and Other Anti-Infective Therapeutic Development Programs
Edward Golding, Executive Director MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy; Former Head of FHA In a paper published in the Harvard Data Science Review on May 14, 2020, the […]
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Funding pandemic relief: Monetise now
Deborah J. Lucas, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance and Director, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy Refet A. Gürkaynak, Professor of Economics and Department Chair, Bilkent University (Reposted with […]
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Federal stimulus favors wealthy investors and major companies
Edward Golding, Executive Director MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy; Former Head of FHA In an article in The Hill, Bob Pozen explores how the recently enacted Cares Act has […]
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