Columbia Professors Offer New Proposal for Reducing Foreclosures
The plan aims to facilitate mortgage modifications, and thus reduce foreclosures, by compensating servicers and removing some legal constraints.
Bernstein Center Hosts Research Symposium on Financial Crisis
Leading academics and experts gathered to examine the origins of the financial crisis and discuss what actions policymakers might take to prevent it from happening again.
Professors Offer Views on Economy at Community Forum
Among the keys to solving the current economic crisis are promoting bank recapitalization and stabilizing housing prices, speakers said.
Mayer Named Senior Vice Dean
Christopher J. Mayer, the Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate and
director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate since 2003,
has been named the School’s next senior vice dean.
32nd Annual Dinner Honors Ben Bernanke and Russell Carson '67
An evening featuring the remarks of Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Russell Carson '67, cofounder of private investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, raised more than $3 million for the School's programs and initiatives.
"Professor Chris Mayer points out that some $750 billion of annual mortgage lending has dried up as the securitization of subprime and jumbo loans has collapsed."
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Manhattanville Expansion Approval Marks First Step in Business School Transformation
The New York City Council officially approved the University’s construction of a new uptown campus, which will allow the business school to powerfully broaden its resources.
Real Estate Study by Professor Chris Mayer Captures National Interest
A recent study confronts misperceptions about the underlying
drivers behind the decade-old real estate boom and refutes conventional
wisdom saying there is a housing bubble.