Conflict Avoidance: Experiments Show People Hide from Discussions Seen as “Zero Sum”
Climate’s Impact on Crops: How Rising Temperatures are Threatening More than Food
With U.S. Virus Cases Set to Soar, State Coalitions Are Mostly Talk
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Geoffrey Heal
Geoffrey Heal, Donald C. Waite III Professor Emeritus of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School, is noted for contributions to economic theory and resource and environmental economics. He holds bachelors (first class), masters and doctoral degrees from Cambridge University, where he studied at Churchill College and taught at Christ’s College. He has also taught at Sussex, Essex, Yale, Stanford, École Polytechnique, Stockholm and Princeton. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Universite´ de Paris Dauphine.
Why Were the Polls so Far off Again? Trump Voters Are Near Impossible to Predict
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Michael Slepian
Michael Slepian is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics in the Management Division of Columbia Business School. His program of research examines secrecy and trust. He studies the psychology of secrets and how keeping secrets affects two important variables that govern social and organizational life: trust and motivation. He has studied the consequences of keeping secrets, including how they change our behavior, judgments and actions.
Why Jay Powell's Second Fed Term Could Be Even Tougher Than His First
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Why Confidence in the Economy Matters During a Pandemic
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Laura Veldkamp
Laura Veldkamp is the Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance & Economics at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, with an economics Ph.D. from Stanford. She has been a board member and chair of the governance committee for the American Finance Association, an editor of the Journal of Economic Theory and a frequent keynote speaker at prestigious academic conferences in both finance and economics.
Why a Third of Borrowers in Debt Forbearance Programs Are Still Paying Their Bills
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Tomasz Piskorski
Tomasz Piskorski is the Edward S. Gordon Professor of Real Estate in the Finance Division at Columbia Business School. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on the Academic Research Council of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Professor Piskorski earned a M.S. in Mathematics from New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University Stern School of Business.