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Prof. Kate Ho’s study on health insurance competition and its effect on consumers has been featured in Microeconomic Insights. The article can be found at this link: http://microeconomicinsights.org/health-insurance-competition-effects-premiums-hospital-rates-welfare/

​The Economics Department is pleased to congratulate Xingye Wu, a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Teaching Award for outstanding Teaching by Graduate Students.

We are happy to share that Ildiko Magyari, an Economics PhD student, was featured in both The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Both articles mentioned her paper, “Firm Reorganization, Chinese Imports, and US Manufacturing Imports,”which explores the effect of Chinese imports on US companies.

Padma Desai, Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems Emerita at Columbia University, is a leading scholar of the Soviet Union, Russia, and Transition Economies. Desai was a pioneering female student in economics at Harvard University and received her Ph.D. there in 1960. She came to Columbia in 1980 after spending time at […]

We are proud to announce that José A. Scheinkman, the Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics, has been elected a new member of The American Finance Association’s Society of Fellows. Fellows are recognized for making a distinguished contribution to the field of finance. Click here for more information.