Economics and Policy

Once a poster child for lifting millions of people from poverty, Brazil is now battling rising earnings inequality — which is factoring into a presidential election.

Dean Glenn Hubbard and Professor Charles Calomiris on the economic fallout from President Trump’s first two years — and prescriptions for the next two.

Chazen Senior Scholar Patrick Bolton reveals why the cost of abandoning currency sovereignty may outweigh the trade benefits of a single currency.

Associate Professor Yash Kanoria helped design an algorithm to fill seats in India’s top tech schools, with implications for the US school system.

In September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed, almost bringing down the world’s financial system and resulting in the foreclosure of millions of homes in the United States. What have we learned since then?

Jean Tirole, Nobel Prize-winning economist and winner of the 2018 George S. Eccles Prize for Economics for the Common Good, explains why economists must listen to those who are not benefiting from global trade policies at the 2018 George S. Eccles Prize and Speaker Forum.

The prerequisites for a US victory — a clearly defined objective, a viable strategy, and popular support — simply don't exist.

In the Pakistani city of Sialkot, Amit Khandelwal discovered a thriving soccer ball industry constrained by a simple economic problem.

A key player in the US’s winning bid to host the 2026 World Cup, this Columbia Business School economist addresses the challenges of managing at the top level of the world’s most popular sport.

If one country does poorly, blame the country; if many countries are doing poorly, blame the system.