On April 2013, Professors Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya released a new book titled “Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries” (Yale University Press).
Katharina Pistor, the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, was awarded the 2014 Allen & Overy Law Prize in the European Corporate Governance Institute’s (ECGI) law working paper series for best paper.
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati and Francisco Rivera-Batiz were featured on the Foreign Affairs magazine on a recent article titled "A Kinder, Gentler Immigration Policy: Forget Comprehensive Reform - Let the States Compete". The authors argue that even if immigration reform managed to get through congress, it would do little to stem illegal immigration or improve the plight of the undocumented. They argue that policymakers should shift their focus to a more humane, bottom-up approach: letting states compete for illegal immigrants.
On March 2013, Ailsa Roell and her co-authors Thierry Foucault and Marco Pagano published a book titled "Market Liquidity: Theory, Evidence and Policy" (Oxford University Press). In their book, the authors explain how markets work; why, sometimes, they don't work as we might wish; and how this affects regulation and corporate decision making. Covering the institutional structure of financial markets and the economic and statistical models we use to understand them, the book offers a more accurate and authoritative take on liquidity and price discovery.
Professor Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at SIPA, was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the government of India in February 2012. Professor Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at SIPA, has been awarded the Padma Bhushan by the government of India.