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East Asia Forum has published a summary of Professor Hugh Patrick's annual essay on the Japanese economy titled "Japan's Abenomics bumps along". The full essay will be available in our 2014-2015 annual report. For the summary and for other articles written by Professor Patrick on East Asia Forum, please see the links below: Japan's Abenomics bumps along Other Articles by Professor Hugh Patrick

New economic research reveals that even with 24/7 access to financial portfolios, the “ostrich effect” takes over when markets are down

Professor Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, will be retiring this month (December 2015) from Columbia University. Jeff Kingston at The Japan Times, writes an article, featuring Professor Curtis' retirement. The article can be found below: Gerald Curtis, the ultimate insider in Japanese politics, retires

The creation of state and federal healthcare exchanges represents a significant first step towards bringing greater rationality to health insurance markets, but the design of the exchanges may still

Economic stratification can have grave consequences — no more so than in the richest country in the world.

Now that parents can have two children, Chinese growth could take a two-decade hit.

On Friday, November 20th, graduate students from the Real Estate programs at Columbia, MIT, and Harvard gathered in Uris Hall for the annual Coming to Terms: Negotiating Real Estate Joint Ventures event.  Co-sponsored by the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, The MIT Center for Real Estate, and the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, the event offered student participants the rare opportunity to engage with seasoned professionals from both the legal and business sides of the real estate industry.  

Two speakers at the recent India Business Initiative conference offer radical suggestions for solving the country’s physician shortage.

Columbia Business School lost an esteemed member of its community Saturday when David M. Silfen ’68 passed away.

Columbia University’s physician-in-chief prescribes some radical intervention that will help cure India’s healthcare crisis.

The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School has awarded grants to five up-and- coming social innovators

The high pitched fervor over ‘big data’ has died down a bit, but only because companies are more focused on putting their noses to the grind stone to determine how to more effectively collect and analyze data, of all sizes, to improve their business performance.  

Second only to the use of fossil fuels, deforestation is the largest driver of global climate change, but a proposal before the United Nations Conference on Climate Change could change that.

A survey of nearly 2,000 CEOs and CFOs reveals a startling disconnect between the value culture adds and how companies underinvest in it

Focusing on process is more effective than trying to control every aspect of employee performance.

On October 21, over 1,400 alumni, students, faculty and staff members, and friends contributed a record-breaking $1.5 million to Columbia Business School, earning an additional $48,000 in challenge match funds from University Trustees. Adding to this success, the School won all three of the day’s challenges for the most international donors, further highlighting the generosity of the School’s outstanding global network.

Legal systems are blocking access to credit in emerging-market countries. New research explains how — and why.

On November 5 and 7, festooned with festive gold balloons, Uris Hall welcomed thousands of community members for on-campus Centennial celebrations