“Is it transformative? Maybe not,” said Eric Verhoogen, a professor of economics at Columbia University who focuses on industrial development.. “But this sort of model can be quite beneficial for the community in which production is happening, in part because many times people in the community don’t really know what

Behavioral economists speak of “loss aversion.” “If I give you $10 and take it away from you, that feels a lot worse than me not giving it to you in the first place,” said Mark Dean, an economics professor at Columbia University.

Transparency and Deliberation Within the FOMC: A Computational Linguistics Approach Stephen Hansen, Michael McMahon, Andrea Prat The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2018

Recommender Systems as Mechanisms for Social Learning Yeon-Koo Che, Johannes Hörner The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2018

Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs said the world's ways of producing and using energy need to change "much faster, much more dramatically" than political leaders looking to tap hydrocarbon reserves understand. "So, if we want to move to zero emissions we better get the idea to move away from fossil

Richard Clarida, the Columbia University economist tapped to serve as the Federal Reserve’s No. 2 official by President Donald Trump, said he would “fully support” the central bank’s mission and promote accountability that preserves its independent status. In prepared testimony released Monday by the Senate Banking Committee ahead of a

Respondents weren't asked why they rated themselves as they did. But the three economists who edited the Report - Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University in the U.S., John F. Helliwell of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Richard Layard of the London School of Economics—pointed out several factors that

Michael Vincent Crapotta is the new editor-in-chief of the Columbia Economics Review (CER), a journal led, organized, and operated by undergraduate students at Columbia across multiple disciplines.

Professor Joseph Stiglitz among the fans of a rare but bonafide club: High-yielding developing nations that also score well in environmental, social and governance standards, or ESG. The Nobel Prize-winning Columbia University economist praised Costa Rica in a blog post today as a "world leader" in policies that promote democratic,

Professor Michael Woodford was profiled alongside neuroscientist Jacqueline Gottlieb regarding their RISE-funded project which examines human decision-making through the use of large data sets.