Pierre Yared
MUTB Professor of International Business
Economics
Vice Dean, Executive Education
Executive Education
A.B., Economics, Harvard University, 2001; Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
Joined CBS in 2007
Office:
549
Kravis
Phone:
212-854-9670
E-mail:
[email protected]
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Pierre Yared is the MUTB Professor of International Business and Vice Dean for Executive Education at Columbia Business School. His research, which has been published in leading academic journals, focuses on macroeconomic policy, political economy, and growth. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of the American Economic Review. Yared teaches Global Economic Environment, a Core MBA course in macroeconomics for which he received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York. Yared received his AB in Economics from Harvard University and his PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Teaching
Spring 2022
The Future of the Global Economy
(MBA)
Markets and the Economy
(EMBA)
Global Economic Environment
(EMBA)
Global Immersion: Economic Growth in the UAE
(MBA)
Spring 2021
The Future of the Global Economy
(MBA)
Global Economic Environment
(EMBA)
Spring 2020
The Future of the Global Economy
(MBA)
Global Immersion: The Japanese Economy
(MBA)
Spring 2019
Global Immersion: Economic Growth in the UAE
(MBA)
Global Economic Environment
(MBA)
The Future of the Global Economy
(MBA)
Fall 2019
Global Economic Environment
(MBA)
Spring 2018
Global Immersion: Economic Growth in the UAE
(MBA)
Fall 2018
Global Economic Environment
(MBA)
Spring 2017
Global Immersion: Economic Growth in the UAE
(MBA)
The Future of the World Economy After the Financial Crisis
(MBA)
Fall 2017
Columbia Caseworks cases
Into the Abyss and Back: COVID-19 and the Economy
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Nicolas Vincent, Pierre Yared, Gabriele Martegiani
Responding to the Oil Industry Downturn: Challenges to Debt Restructuring in the UAE
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Pierre Yared
Lehman Brothers: Too Big to Fail?
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Emi Nakamura, Pierre Yared, Jack Lysohir
Standing at the Edge of a Cliff: GM at the Onset of the 2008 Financial Crisis
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Nicolas Vincent, Pierre Yared
The Obama Stimulus
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Pierre Yared
The Solow Model Unleashed: Understanding Economic Growth
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Nicolas Vincent, Pierre Yared
Research
Journal articles
Pandemic Lockdown: The Role of Government Commitment
In Review of Economic Dynamics
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Christian Moser, Pierre Yared
The Commitment Benefit of Consols in Government Debt Management
In American Economic Review: Insights
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Davide Debortoli, Ricardo Nunes, Pierre Yared
Optimal Fiscal Policy without Commitment: Revisiting Lucas-Stokey
In Journal of Political Economy
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Davide Debortoli, Ricardo Nunes, Pierre Yared
Commitment vs. Flexibility with Costly Verification
In Journal of Political Economy
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Marina Halac, Pierre Yared
The Optimal Public and Private Provision of Safe Assets
In Journal of Monetary Economics
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Marina Azzimonti, Pierre Yared
Rising Government Debt: Causes and Solutions for a Decades-Old Trend
In Journal of Economic Perspectives
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Pierre Yared
Fiscal Rules and Discretion in a World Economy
In American Economic Review
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Pierre Yared
A Note on Optimal Fiscal Policy in an Economy with Private Borrowing Limits
In Economics Letters
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Marina Azzimonti, Pierre Yared
Optimal Time-Consistent Government Debt Maturity
In The Quarterly Journal of Economics
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Davide Debortoli, Ricardo Nunes, Pierre Yared
The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-1961
In Review of Economic Studies
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Xin Meng, Nancy Qian, Pierre Yared
Fiscal Rules and Discretion Under Persistent Shocks
In Econometrica
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Pierre Yared
A Theory of Political and Economic Cycles
In Journal of Economic Theory
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Laurence Ales, Pricila Maziero, Pierre Yared
Public Debt under Limited Private Credit
In Journal of the European Economic Association
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Pierre Yared
A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars
In The Quarterly Journal of Economics
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Daron Acemoglu, Michael Golosov, Aleh Tsyvinski, Pierre Yared
The Political Economy of Indirect Control
In The Quarterly Journal of Economics
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Gerard Padro i Miquel, Pierre Yared
Political Limits to Globalization
In American Economic Review
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Daron Acemoglu, Pierre Yared
Politicians, Taxes, and Debt
In Review of Economic Studies
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Pierre Yared
A Dynamic Theory of War and Peace
In Journal of Economic Theory
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Pierre Yared
Future Rent-Seeking and Current Public Savings
In Journal of International Economics
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Ricardo Caballero, Pierre Yared
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis
In Journal of Monetary Economics
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson, Pierre Yared
Income and Democracy
In American Economic Review
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson, Pierre Yared
From Education to Democracy?
In American Economic Review
(2005)
Coauthor(s): Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson, Pierre Yared
Books
Intermediate Macroeconomics
(2023)
Coauthor(s): Pierre Yared, Nicolas Vincent
Working papers
A Theory of Fiscal Responsibility and Irresponsibility
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Marina Halac, Pierre Yared