Business Economics and Public Policy

Research reveals role of government funding in pharmaceutical R&D and its direct and indirect impact on innovative new drugs

Study finds that gender differences in overconfidence concerning individual past performance explains a significant proportion of the lack of female leadership in organizations

Professor David Weinstein's opinions on taxes and the Japanese elderly were featured in the November 18, 2011 Economist article, "Whose Lost Decade?"

Columbia University Professor David Weinstein was featured in the Wall Street Journal article "On the TPP and its merits and demerits: Impact on agriculture industry will be severe, but benefits for manufacturing will be vast" on 18 November, 2011.

Andy Stern has been named a Senior Fellow for the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy, an interdisciplinary academic center jointly administered by Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School.

Study finds that subjective evaluations are comparable with and complementary to objective measures of teacher effectiveness

Professor Gerald L. Curtis's lecture on the political, social, and economic situation in Japan following the Tohoku Earthquake featured in the September 21, 2011 edition of Kyodo News

Glenn Hubbard, Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, has been tapped to lead presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's economic policy team.

Professor Gerald L. Curtis was featured in an opinion piece by Yoshibumi Wakamiya, editor-in-chief of The Asahi Shimbun

Professor Hugh Patrick made an appearance on NHK BS1's program "Project Wisdom" on Saturday July 30 at 10:00 pm JST. It will be re-broadcast on August 8 and 28.