PER was founded with the aim of supporting outreach activities to inform understanding of economic issues

We aim to inform and improve the development and implementation of economic and public policy.

Our research interests cover virtually every aspect of modern economic analysis and its applications

Economics Faculty

Find out more about our faculty and their research.

Undergraduate Travels to India for Honors Thesis Fieldwork

“What I learned was that the predictions that we make in rational economic theory are extremely divergent from what actually happens in the field.”

SPOTLIGHT

Congratulations Michael Carlos Best, Awarded President’s Global Innovation Fund!

Michael Carlos Best of Columbia’s Department of Economics was awarded the President’s Global Innovation Fund, for a project titled Jordanian Economic Policy Research Initiative. Professor Best’s research project will study economic policy in Jordan, with a focus on taxation and public spending.

Upcoming PER Events

Sep

14

Columbia Conference on Economic Theory

Friday, September 14, 2018, 9:00 am - Saturday, September 15, 2018, 2:30 pm