Briefs & Blogs
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Brakes or bans: Protecting financial markets during a pandemic
Laura Kodres, Senior Distinguished Fellow, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy (Reposted with permission from VOXEU.) Amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, the movements in equity markets’ around […]
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Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu
Jiageng Liu, Research Assistant, MIT Sloan Finance Group The COVID-19 pandemic damages the U.S. and the world economy and puts policymakers in an unfamiliar dilemma. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as […]
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Opinion: What to know about how the coronavirus crisis will impact your money market fund
Robert C. Pozen, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management and non-resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Below is a link to a recent MarketWatch article, which addresses the question: Will […]
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3 Questions: Jonathan Parker on building an economic recovery
Jonathan Parker, Robert C. Merton Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan and co-director at the MIT GCFP, recently provided answers on how to think about the just-passed $2 trillion CARES […]
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Are Circuit Breakers Doing Their Job?
Laura Kodres, Senior Distinguished Fellow, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy It has been so long since the stock market fell precipitously that most had forgotten that circuit breakers […]
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Policy Rx for the economy: Cash or credit?
Deborah J. Lucas, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance and Director, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy What is the best mix of cash and credit assistance to combat the […]
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Finance profs to Congress: “Bail out people, not corporations”
Deborah J. Lucas, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance and Director, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy A group of top financial economists from universities around the country, including many […]
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A Traditional Economic Stimulus Won’t Work. Here’s What Might.
Daniel Greenwald, Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management As the Covid-19 pandemic brings the U.S. economy to a standstill, a severe drop in consumer demand is putting […]
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Housing Finance Policy and the Coming Recession: Time to use current system to lower mortgage payments!
Devajyoti “Doc” Ghose, Advisor, Kah Capital Management; Treasurer (Retired) Freddie Mac Edward Golding, Executive Director MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy; Former Head of FHA Housing finance policy has […]
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A Simple Way Forward to Address the Economy During the Pandemic
© Bernard R. Horn, Jr., President of Polaris Capital Management LLC While Congress and the Administration wrestle with a massive $2 trillion response and many suggest expansive new loan programs, […]
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