The White House said Monday that Mr. Trump would nominate Columbia University economist Richard Clarida to become Fed vice chairman. Mr. Clarida, who worked at the Treasury under President George W. Bush, has quibbled with some Fed communications in recent years but generally has backed the Fed’s policies of slowly
Professor Vincent P. Crawford revisits Roger Myerson and Mark Satterthwaite’s (1983; “MS”) analysis of mechanism design for bilateral trading, replacing equilibrium with a non-equilibrium “level-k” model that predicts initial responses to games, and focusing on direct mechanisms.
Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz was a featured interviewee on Blooomberg TV where he spoke on trade tensions between the U.S. and China.
President Trump will nominate Richard Clarida, a Columbia University economist and former Treasury official in the George W. Bush administration, for the second-ranking job at the Federal Reserve, the White House said on Monday.
Economist Joseph Stiglitz was quoted in a piece for Xinhua News on how unilateral US tariffs against China undermine international trade.
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Media Advisory: Market Design Conference: Economists to discuss the design of online and offline markets in a variety of settings.
This year marks the 50th year anniversary of the publication of the Kerner Report, famous for declaring “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one white, one black, separate and unequal.” The anniversary of the Kerner Report presents an opportunity to call attention to the issues such as inequality of
François Gerard of Columbia’s Department of Economics was awarded the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) division of social and economic sciences grant for a project titled, ‘Unemployment Insurance Schemes in Developing Countries.’
Economist Joseph Stiglitz was a guest on CNBC where he warned against the White House's resistance to appointing new judges at the World Trade Organization as well as the dangers of trade skirmishes.
