Established in 2011 with a visionary gift from Richard Paul Richman, JD ’72, MBA ’73, the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University is a joint venture of Columbia's Business and Law Schools. The Richman Center promotes evidence-based public policy and fosters dialogue and debate on emerging policy questions where business and markets intersect with the law.
The center supports empirical, theoretical, and institutional research targeting central issues at the nexus of law and markets, both domestically and internationally, and helps translate this academic research into practical strategies for executing new regulatory reforms and business opportunities. It also fosters curricular innovations and student activities that tap synergies between the Business and Law Schools.
Publications from 2017
Article: Energy Subsidies: Worthy Goals, Competing Priorities, and Flawed Institutional Design, David M. Schizer
Publications from 2016
Article: Between Scylla and Charybdis: Taxing Corporations or Shareholders (or Both), David M. Schizer
Working Paper: Between Scylla and Charybdis: Taxing Corporations or Shareholders (or Both), David M. Schizer
Publications from 2015
Article: Limiting Tax Expenditures, David M. Schizer
Working Paper: Energy Subsidies: Worthy Goals, Competing Priorities, and Flawed Institutional Design, David M. Schizer
Publications from 2014
Article: Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide, Christopher Mayer, Edward R. Morrison, Tomasz Piskorski, and Arpit Gupta
Article: Rolling Back the Repo Safe Harbors, Edward R. Morrison, Mark J. Roe, and Christopher S. Sontchi
Working Paper: Limiting Tax Expenditures, David M. Schizer
Publications from 2013
Article: The Shale Oil and Gas Revolution, Hydraulic Fracturing, and Water Contamination: A Regulatory Strategy, Thomas W. Merrill and David M. Schizer
Working Paper: The Shale Oil and Gas Revolution, Hydraulic Fracturing, and Water Contamination: A Regulatory Strategy, Thomas W. Merrill and David M. Schizer
Publications from 2011
Article: Subsidizing the Press, David M. Schizer
Working Paper: Fiscal Policy in an Era of Austerity, David M. Schizer
Publications from 2009
Article: Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11, Kenneth M. Ayotte and Edward R. Morrison
Article: Subsidizing Charitable Contributions: Incentives, Information, and the Private Pursuit of Public Goals, David M. Schizer
Essay: Is the Bankruptcy Code an Adequate Mechanism for Resolving the Distress of Systemically Important Institutions?, Edward R. Morrison
Publications from 2008
Article: Litigation & Professional Responsibility: Is Overlawyering Overtaking Democracy?, David M. Schizer
Essay: Bankruptcy's Rarity: An Essay on Small Business Bankruptcy in the United States, Edward R. Morrison
Publications from 2006
Article: Enlisting the Tax Bar, David M. Schizer
Working Paper: Bankruptcy Decisionmaking: An Empirical Study of Continuation Bias in Small-Business Bankruptcies, Edward R. Morrison
Publications from 2005
Working Paper: Serial Entrepreneurs and Small Business Bankruptcies, Douglas G. Baird and Edward R. Morrison
Publications from 2004
Article: Market Bubbles and Wasteful Avoidance: Tax and Regulatory Constraints on Short Sales, Michael R. Powers, David M. Schizer, and Martin Shubik
Publications from 2001
Article: Frictions as a Constraint on Tax Planning, David M. Schizer
Publications from 2000
Article: Executives and Hedging: The Fragile Legal Foundation of Incentive Compatibility, David M. Schizer
Article: Sticks and Snakes: Derivatives and Curtailing Aggressive Tax Planning, David M. Schizer
Working Paper: Sticks and Snakes: Derivatives and Curtailing Aggressive Tax Planning, David M. Schizer
Publications from 1999
Working Paper: Executives and Hedging: The Fragile Legal Foundation of Incentive Compatibility, David M. Schizer
Publications from 1998
Article: Realization as Subsidy, David M. Schizer
Response/Comment: Judicial Review of Discount Rates Used in Regulatory Cost-Benefit Analysis, Edward R. Morrison
Publications from 1992
Article: Benign Restraint: The SEC's Regulation of Execution Systems, David M. Schizer