Joe Biden’s chief economic adviser joins a proactive investor who was one of the largest private investors in …
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The Euro @ 20: How Economic and Financial “Asymmetries” Marred...
The launch of the single currency in 1999 rekindled the European Union’s momentum toward deeper integration. And yet …
The Economic (Not Literary) Offenses of Michael Lewis: The Case...
In a shameless abuse of editorial prerogative, the editor of this journal uses Lewis’s bestseller as a pretext …
Apocalypse Averted: The COVID-Caused Liquidity Trap, Dodd-Frank, and the Fed
In an article published in this journal in 2012, the author challenged the conventional wisdom that a major …
Columbia Business School Roundtable on The Fed’s Response to the...
A former Federal Reserve Governor (from 2006-2008) and a former Treasury official discuss the Fed’s and U.S. government’s …
The Benefits of Buying Distressed Assets
Studies of mergers and acquisitions have struggled to identify characteristics of M&A transactions that are consistently associated with …
What Public Companies Can Learn from Private Equity Pay Plans
Studies of private equity pay, including one by current SEC commissioner Robert Jackson, have pointed to restrictions on …
Disclosure Topics, Financial Relevance, and the Financial Intensity of ESG...
At the end of 2018, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) released its corporate reporting standards for material …

Morgan Stanley Roundtable on Capital Structure and Payout Policy
A group of distinguished finance academics and practitioners discuss a number of topical issues in corporate financial management: …
Columbia Law School Roundtable on The Future of Capitalism
In this discussion that took place at Columbia Law School’s Millstein Center last October (and thus well before …