Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

Course Materials

Financial Engineering for Low-Income Households

Financial Engineering for Low-Income Households is an edited compilation of articles that focus on using financial engineering a multidisciplinary field that uses technical methods from the fields of finance, mathematics, and economics to design financial services for low-income households.

Risk Management for Financial Institutions

The core purpose of banks and finance companies is to assume manageable levels of maturity risk and credit risk, and to generate a level of return consistent with it. This is hard to do, even in relatively small financial institutions because of the fact that each risk is being assumed by the institution on a near continuous.