Business Economics and Public Policy

Columbia Business School economist looks into the possibility of unemployed workers tapping the disability fund when running out of unemployment benefits

An article titled "Overconfidence in Consumer Prices is Dangerous" which was based on a recent paper co-authored by Professor David E. Weinstein, "How Much Do Official Price Indexes Tell Us About Inflation?," was featured in Nikkei on December 23, 2013.

Video and summary report now available for talk by CJEB Research Associate Professor Takatoshi Ito, "The Third Arrow of Abenomics: How Far Will It Reach?"

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New Working Paper by CJEB Director of Research David E. Weinstein, Professor Tsutomu Watanabe of the University of Tokyo, and Jessie Handbury of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, "How Much Do Official Price Indexes Tell Us About Inflation?," now available

CJEB Core Faculty member Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, gave a talk, "Abe and the LDP Are Back. Now What?" on September 25. A video and summary report of the talk are now available.

 Presentations from the State Intervention and Private Enterprise: Japan, the U.S., and China are available here online.

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Professor Hugh Patrick's views on the state of the political economy in Japan, particularly Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy of "Abenomics," were featured in his article "Japan's Price Fix" in the East Asia Forum on October 9, 2013.