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Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trials for Anti‐Infective Therapeutics during Epidemic Outbreaks
A recent paper published in the Harvard Data Science Review, co-authored by Andrew Lo with Shomesh Chaudhuri, Danying Xiao, and Qingyang Xu, shows how the approval standards for drug therapies and vaccines should be […]
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Analysis: The pandemic is making America’s retirement crisis worse. Here’s what you can do
Chris Farrell, PBS News Hour. The coronavirus crisis has torn the Band-Aid off the financial fragility of many Americans. With an unemployment rate between 15% and 20%, bank accounts draining, […]
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3 Questions: Jonathan Parker on building an economic recovery
MIT News. MIT professor evaluates the effect of government stimulus on the crisis-hit U.S. economy. The Covid-19 pandemic is a public health crisis with enormous economic implications: As much of […]
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Big Ideas to Save the Economy, From Bailouts to Super Chapter 11
Bloomberg Business Week. Deborah Lucas says, “You don’t want to blow up viable, going concerns, and that’s the biggest risk in the current situation. It’s worth paying a lot to […]
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Economics, Law and Finance Professors from Major Universities Write to Congress: “Bail Out People Before Large Corporations”
“Bailouts allow investors to keep all the profits in good times without bearing the losses in bad times. Instead, bailouts impose losses on taxpayers, including those most in danger of losing their […]
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A Traditional Economic Stimulus Won’t Work. Here’s What Might.
by Daniel Greenwald, Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. More countries should follow Denmark’s example. As the Covid-19 pandemic brings the U.S. economy to a standstill, a […]
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Robert Pozen finances $200,000 MIT prize to honor his mother
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, is offering a $200,000 prize to recognize outstanding research or practice in financial policy, courtesy of Robert C. Pozen, a former vice chairman of Fidelity Investments, […]
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For Pozen, MIT prize is a long-deserved tribute to mom – The Boston Globe | 12/17/2019
The way Bob Pozen figures it, if his mom had been born a century later ― rather than in 1910 ― she would have become an entrepreneur or maybe a […]
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Investors putting too much faith in mutual funds to return money in a panic, former IMF financial stability analyst says
Individual investors might be putting too much faith in the ability of some mutual funds to return their money in a panic, according to Laura Kodres, a former division chief […]
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More than a decade after the start of global financial crisis, we must reevaluate the Dodd-Frank Act
by Laura Kodres, Golub Distinguished Senior Fellow, featured in The Hill. Banking rules and regulations are rewritten every few decades, frequently following a crisis. The Great Depression gave rise to […]
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