Elections

“Tariffs haven’t been an important policy for some time,” says Amit Khandelwal, the Jerome A. Chazen Professor of Global Business.

Even with a flawed democracy, the power of the American electorate matters.

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.

(NEW YORK) – Groundbreaking new research released today by Columbia Business School shows that when it comes to the availability of mortgage credit, voters punish incumbents in tough economic times, but don’t always reward them in good ones. The new findings could impact how we view the relationship between the economy and national elections for years to come.

If it had been windier on November 8, then the election results might have looked very different, says research from Columbia Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School. A research paper titled Weather Affects Voting Decisions finds that the weather on Election Day affects voters’ decisions.

Professor Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Columbia University, wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, on Japan's Upper House election. You can read the article on The Wall Street Journal's website: Japan’s Election Offers Little Choice (The Wall Street Journal, 06/26/16)

CJEB recently held its 10th annual lecture on Japanese politics with Professor Gerald Curtis, CJEB's core faculty member and Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. The lecture was titled "New Directions in Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy". To view the video of this lecture, please click here.  

CJEB's Core Faculty member, Professor Gerald Curtis, recently interviewed with The Wall Street Journal in Tokyo to discuss Japan's upcoming election which will take place in December. He speculates the outcome of the election and how it may impact Abe and the LDP party. He also discusses the recent recession and the progress of Abenomics. For more information and to view the video, please click here.

A new study on the connections between race and gender — a phenomenon called gendered race — reveals unexpected ways in which stereotypes affect our personal and professional decisions.

The Columbia Business School Real Estate Association is pleased to announce the co-presidents and vice presidents elected for the 2012-13 academic year. The officers, all in the class of 2013, were elected by the REA membership.