COVID-19
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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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Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trials for Anti‐Infective Therapeutics during Epidemic Outbreaks
Edward Golding, Executive Director MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy; Former Head of FHA We all have heard about these “unprecedented times” and how we need to throw the […]
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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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