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December 12, 2017
Prat: A Survey Of How 1,000 CEOs Spend Their Day Reveals What Makes Leaders Successful
Andrea Prat‘s research was featured in the Harvard Business Review. He has co-authored a working paper seeking to measure CEO productivity by surveying the chief executives of over 1000 firms. Read more here.
December 12, 2017
Sakai Ando Awarded The 20th Mariguchi Prize Award
Sakai Ando, a job market candidate, is awarded the 20th Moriguchi Prize Award on December 6th, 2017 for his job market paper “Size-Dependent Policies and Efficient Firm Creation” from Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research, which jointly runs International Economic Review with the University of Pennsylvania. The Moriguchi Prize Award was established to encourage graduate students for […]
September 26, 2017
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Markets Alone Won’t Protect You
Tropical Storm Harvey has left in its wake upended lives and enormous property damage, estimated by some at $150-$180bn. But the storm that pummelled the Texas coast for the better part of a week also raises deep questions about the United States’ economic system and politics… Joseph E Stiglitz is a Nobel prizewinner in economics, […]
September 21, 2017
Salanié and Chiappori: Marital Choices are Exacerbating Household Income Inequality
“HERE’S what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate,” wrote Susan Patton, a human-resources consultant, in 2013 … The Latest iteration of the debate comes in a recent paper by Pierre-André Chiappori and Bernard Salanié, of Columbia University, and Yoram Weiss, of Tel Aviv University, which argues that assortative mating is […]
August 31, 2017
Richard Clarida Wins the U.S. Treasury Medal for Distinguished Service
BLOOMBERG NEWS A Medal for Helping Keep the U.S. Running Aug 8, 2017 – What do you do after you win the U.S. Treasury Medal for Distinguished Service? For Columbia University professor of economics and international affairs Richard Clarida, the answer was to become global strategic adviser for Pacific Investment Management Co. The full article is available […]