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The US housing market is on life support, said Professor Joseph Stiglitz at a forum sponsored by Columbia Business School, the Progressive Policy Institute, and Zillow April 4 and 5 in New York.

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

NEW YORK—October 4, 2012—Consider a Japanese–American woman strolling through a mall. If she passes by a UNIQLO store, is she more likely to opt for sushi than a hamburger when she reaches the food court? Would this cue of Japanese culture draw out her Japanese side? The answer, according to new research from Columbia Business School’s Michael Morris, the Chavkin–Chang Professor of Leadership, and Aurelia Mok, Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong (she received her Ph.D.

Professor Takatoshi Ito, Dean of The University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Public Policy and CJEB Research Associate, has written an article for the Financial Times entitled "Last Chance for the Bank of Japan to Jettison Defeatism."

Professor Amit Khandelwal, the Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business in the Finance and Economics Division, has been awarded the 2014 George S. Eccles Research Award.  Khandelwal was chosen through a rigorous and competitive selection process and will be honored at a reception with members of the Eccles family and the Columbia community on May 12. 

Daron Acemoglu of MIT and James A. Robinson of Harvard were recognized for their book, Why Nations Fail, while Columbia’s Paul Tetlock was honored for his research on finance.

Michael Guichon '15 wins Ira Sohn Investment Contest.  Read about it in Market Folly.