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COVID-19 UPDATE: Financial Stability and Macroprudential Policy

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Negative WTI Crude Futures Prices Event Study

Adam S. Nagy, Master in Finance and Teaching Assistant at MIT Sloan School of Management Robert C. Merton, School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of […]

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 […]

MIT GCFP Webinar on financial policy response to COVID-19

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Financial Policy During the COVID-19 Crisis

A special section of the GCFP blog to provide a forum for academics, practitioners and policymakers to analyze proposed policy initiatives and to suggest new ones Usable bank capitalAlissa Kleinnijenhuis, […]

Tailoring Bank Regulations: How Did the Market React?

Edward L. Golding, Laura E. Kodres, and Deborah J. Lucas The 2008 financial crisis triggered a wave of new financial regulations, most notably as mandated by the Dodd Frank Act […]

GCFP Names Former Head of Federal Housing Administration Edward Golding as Executive Director