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Raymond Fisman is the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School. Professor Fisman received his PhD in Business Economics at Harvard University. He worked as a consultant in the Africa Division of the World Bank before joining Columbia Business School in 1999. His research covers a range of topics, including the impact of corporate social responsibility, the determinants of altruism and global corruption. His work has been published in leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics and has been covered widely in the popular press, from Maureen Dowd's column in the New York Times to al Jazeera to the Shanghai Daily. He also writes a monthly column for the online magazine Slate, where he's tackled issues including teacher evaluation in public schools, women and leadership, and the economics of civil war. Professor Fisman's first book, Economic Gangsters: Violence, Corruption, and the Poverty of Nations (coauthored with Edward Miguel), was published by Princeton University Press, and he is currently working on a book about the economics of office life, to be published by Twelve in 2012. He has taught nonprofit governance in an Executive Education program for leaders in the arts and teaches the Private Sector and International Development and Managerial Economics courses for EMBA and MBA students.

• Fall 2012
  Managerial Economics (MBA)
  
• Summer 2011
  Managerial Economics (EMBA)
  
• Fall 2011
  Managerial Economics (MBA)
  
• Summer 2010
  Managerial Economics (EMBA)
  
• Fall 2010
  The Private Sector & International Development (EMBA)
  
• Spring 2009
  The Private Sector & International Development (MBA)
  
• Fall 2009
  The Private Sector & International Development (EMBA)
  

Innovations in Governance In Innovation Policy and the Economy, vol. 11 (2011)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Eric Werker

The Role of Nonprofit Endowments In The Governance of Not-for-Profit Organizations (2003)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, R. Glenn Hubbard

Profiting from government stakes in a command economy: Evidence from Chinese asset sales In Journal of Financial Economics (2010)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Yongxiang Wang, Charles Calomiris

Regulation of Entry and the Distortion of Industrial Organization In Journal of Applied Economics (2010)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Virginia Sarria-Allende

Trading Favors within Chinese Business Groups In American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings (2010)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Yongxiang Wang

The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques In American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2009)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Shang-Jin Wei

Testing limits to policy reversal: Evidence from Indian privatizations In Journal of Financial Economics (2008)
Author(s): Siddartha Dastidar, Raymond Fisman, Tarun Khanna

Racial Preferences in Dating: Evidence from a Speed Dating Experiment In Review of Economic Studies (2008)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Sheena Iyengar, Emir Kamenica, Itamar Simonson

Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets In Journal of Political Economy (2007)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Edward Miguel

Consistency and Heterogeneity of Individual Behavior under Uncertainty In American Economic Review (2007)
Author(s): Syngjoo Choi, Raymond Fisman, Douglas Gale, Shachar Kariv

Gender Differences in Mate Selection: Evidence from a Speed Dating Experiment In Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Sheena Iyengar, Emir Kamenica, Itamar Simonson

Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence In Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley

The Effect of Foreign Competition on Forecasting Bias In Review of Economics and Statistics (2006)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman

Are corruption and taxation really harmful to growth? Firm level evidence In Journal of Development Economics (2006)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Jakob Svensson

Financial Development and Intersectoral Allocation: A New Approach In Journal of Finance (2005)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Inessa Love

Precautionary savings and the governance of nonprofit organizations In Journal of Public Economics (2005)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, R. Glenn Hubbard

Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats? In Journal of Law and Economics (2004)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Rafael Di Tella

Tax Rates and Tax Evasion: Evidence from 'Missing Imports' in China In Journal of Political Economy (2004)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Shang-Jin Wei

Estimating the Value of Political Connections In American Economic Review (2001)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman

Airline Pricing on Shuttle Routes: Fall 2012
Author(s): Raymond Fisman

Hermitage's Russian Quandary: Spring 2011
Author(s): Eric Werker, Ray Fisman, Lauren Weber

Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations (2008)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Edward Miguel

Charity as a Substitute for Reputation: Evidence from an Online Marketplace Working Paper (2011)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Brian McManus, Daniel Elfenbein

Lender-Borrower Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes: Evidence from an Indian Bank Working paper (2011)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Vikrant Vig

The Impact of Corruption on State Asset Sales — Evidence from China Working Paper (2011)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Yongxiang Wang

Exposure to Ideology and Distributional Preferences Working Paper (2009)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Daniel Markovits, Shachar Kariv

Pareto Damaging Behaviors (2005)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Shachar Kariv, Daniel Markovits

Individual Preferences for Giving (2005)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Shachar Kariv, Daniel Markovits

Offshoring Tariff Evasion: Evidence from Hong Kong as Entrepôt Trader Working Paper (2005)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Peter Moustakerski, Shang-Jin Wei

Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing? (2005)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana

Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer?: Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data In Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006)
Author(s): Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley