On May 1st, the Center on Global Economic Governance at Columbia University hosted David Woo, head of Global Interest Rates, Foreign Exchange, Emerging Market Fixed Income and Macroeconomic Research at Bank of America. Woo, who obtained his PhD in Economics from Columbia University and is considered one of Wall Street’s top investment and macro strategists, manages a team of 50 analysts around the world.
Government economic policy aims at improving people’s lives. This is true for emerging markets and advanced economies, and is potentially now more important than ever before.
On Wednesday, March 27th, the Center on Global Economic Governance at Columbia University hosted World Bank Economists David Gould and Daria Taglioni as they presented on the World Bank’s recent report titled “Critical Connections: Promoting Economic Growth and Resilience in Europe and Central Asia”.
On Thursday, February 22nd, the World Leaders Forum and the Center on Global Economic Governance at Columbia University hosted European Parliament President Antonio Tajani as part of the Ambassador Donald and Vera Blinken Lecture Series.
The joint EIB-ECB-SUERF-Columbia-MIT conference on 28-29 November addressed policy issues related to investment, technological transformation and skills.
Read our conference blog co-authored by CGEG director Jan Svejnar examining the slowdown in EU productivity growth and the wide dispersion in productivity among European firms.
On November 8th, Alvin Roth, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences and Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University, delivered the 11th Annual Kenneth J. Arrow lecture titled “Market Design in Large Worlds: The Example of Kidney Exchange.”
Madeleine Albright, the former U.S. secretary of state, discussed Václav Havel’s life and how his legacy continues to play an important role in global politics.
On September 26th 2018, the evening of the 2nd One Planet Summit in New York City, the Center on Global Economic Governance at SIPA convened a panel of policymakers and experts engaged in important work on global climate action for a discussion titled “One Planet Commitments: Putting the Paris Agreement into Action."
Sustainability has become a key issue in many fields central to the future development of mankind.
To be asked by the Center on Global Economic Governance (CGEG) to write about my time in Columbia brings up two inescapable reactions: a nostalgic feeling of being close to the end, but with it the joy of remembering months of thrilling study and research.
The current status of the relationship between the Trump administration and China is a precarious one, and a closer look shows the constant struggle for a balance of power.