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Research from Chazen Senior Scholar Jonas Hjort shows political leaders value research findings, even willing to pay to learn results of impact evaluations

New Research from Columbia Business School Challenges Conventional Wisdom of Bank Funding.

CJEB’s Chairman, Professor Hugh Patrick, contributed an article titled, “Local Businesses Revitalizing Regional Economies: Case of Oita,” to the Government of Japan’s official magazine, We Are Tomodachi.

The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate is pleased to welcome the following new alumni to the Real Estate Circle: Craig Elkind ’91 and Michael Ridloff ‘07 as Leaders and Donal Warde ’19 as an Associate.

A paper coauthored by Professor David Weinstein, CJEB’s director, was referenced as a source in the below articles. The paper, Who’s Paying for the U.S. Tariffs? A Longer-Term Perspective, which updates on previous research, was coauthored with Stephen J. Redding of Princeton, and Mary Amiti of the New York Federal Reserve.

Private equity plays an important role in investment markets and the broader economy. Private equity funds—managed by general partners, or GPs—take stakes in companies, exercise control, and actively seek to improve the performance of their portfolio companies. They do so in pursuit of financial returns for their investors (limited partners, or LPs) higher than the returns available in public markets. Private equity has become a key engine of investment markets, seeking absolute return while driving performance and efficiency in portfolio companies.

 

Amidst the longest economic recovery in post-war history, four experts in global real estate gathered to discuss current investment trends.

Happy holidays from the Private Equity Program at Columbia Business School

The application for the academic year of 2020-2021 is now open.