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- 1978
- Chapter
Issues and Policies Related to Mining Tax Reform
By: Malcolm Gillis, Louis T. Wells and Ulrich Petersen
- 2010
- Article
Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance
By: Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker
Most major decisions at the World Bank are made by its Board of Executive Directors. While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Decisions;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Voting;
Globalized Economies and Regions
Kaja, Ashwin, and Eric Werker. "Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance." World Bank Economic Review 24, no. 2 (2010).
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Financial Regulatory Reform Agenda in 2017
We take stock of the post-crisis financial regulatory reform agenda. We highlight and summarize areas of clear progress, where post-crisis reforms should either be maintained or built upon. We then identify several areas where the new regulations could be streamlined...
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Greenwood, Robin, Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam. "The Financial Regulatory Reform Agenda in 2017." Working Paper, February 2017.
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
ago, that some of my return was due to inflation, and that government arguably bore some responsibility for that inflation. But when I dug a little further, I found that over the three years my investment...
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- March – April 2010
- Article
Healthcare Reform and Its Implications for the U.S. Economy
Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Economy;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Healthcare Reform and Its Implications for the U.S. Economy." Business Horizons 53, no. 2 (March–April 2010).
- 1979
- Article
Approximating the Efficiency Gain of Tax Reforms
By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski
Proper analysis of tax reform requires evaluation of the welfare effects induced by a change from one tax system to another. We present two methods for estimating these changes using only local information pertaining to an initial equilibrium with distortive taxes. It...
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Green, Jerry R., and Eytan Sheshinski. "Approximating the Efficiency Gain of Tax Reforms." Journal of Public Economics 11, no. 2 (1979): 179–195.
- October 2007
- Teaching Note
Transforming Korea Inc: Financial Crisis and Institutional Reform (TN)
By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
Teaching Note for 708007.
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that...
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- January 2011
- Journal Article
Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development?
By: Lee G. Branstetter, Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley and Kamal Saggi
An extensive theoretical literature generates ambiguous predictions concerning the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) reform on industrial development. The impact depends on whether multinational enterprises (MNEs) expand production in reforming countries...
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Keywords:
Development Economics;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Intellectual Property;
Rights;
Production;
Expansion;
United States
Branstetter, Lee G., Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi. "Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development?" Journal of International Economics 83, no. 1 (January 2011): 27–36.
- 1978
- Chapter
Alternatives for Mineral Tax Reform
By: Malcolm Gillis, Louis T. Wells, Glenn Jenkins and Brian Wright
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
and leading thinkers to wrestle with the Gordian knot of healthcare reform. The approach to reforming healthcare has been "hung up in static rather than dynamic thinking," said Christensen, who moderated a...
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- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
guarantees” that compel the government to bail out large financial institutions. Moss’s own reform ideas have helped frame the ongoing Washington debate and make a clear,...
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- February 2011
- Background Note
Corporate Reform Elements of the Dodd-Frank Act
By: Robert C. Pozen, Phillip Andrews and David Lane
This note summarizes the four major changes affecting corporate governance that were made by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. These changes relate to: advisory notes by shareholders, refinements to board structure, non-disclosure on compensation and tightening up of certain...
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Keywords:
Corporate Disclosure;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Government Legislation;
Executive Compensation;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
United States
Pozen, Robert C., Phillip Andrews, and David Lane. "Corporate Reform Elements of the Dodd-Frank Act." Harvard Business School Background Note 311-091, February 2011.
- 2010
- Book
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation
By: Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss
After two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive governance, alongside public calls for new, smarter regulation. Yet there is a real danger that regulatory...
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Keywords:
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Government and Politics;
Markets;
Business and Government Relations;
Research
Balleisen, Edward J., and David A. Moss, eds. Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- 25 Nov 1991
- Lecture
Global Patterns in Corporate Governance and Regulation
By: W. Carl Kester
Kester, W. Carl. "Global Patterns in Corporate Governance and Regulation." Lecture at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and The Strategic Planning Society Conference on National versus European Regulation: Political, Economic and Corporate Strategic Dimensions, London, November 25, 1991. (Panel speaker.)
- March 2004 (Revised May 2006)
- Background Note
Corporate Reform in the United States
By: Lynn S. Paine and Kim Bettcher
The spate of corporate misdeeds revealed to the American public in 2001 to 2002 prompted corrective action in many quarters of the U.S. economy. The note summarizes some of the steps taken by lawmakers, regulators, law-enforcement officials, companies, investors,...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Capital Markets;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Trust;
United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Kim Bettcher. "Corporate Reform in the United States." Harvard Business School Background Note 304-091, March 2004. (Revised May 2006.)
- March 23, 2010
- Article
Passage of U.S. Healthcare Reform Legislation
By: Bill George
George, Bill. "Passage of U.S. Healthcare Reform Legislation." Harvard Business School Newsroom (March 23, 2010).
- September 30, 2011
- Article
The Mirage of Corporate Tax Reform
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "The Mirage of Corporate Tax Reform." Washington Post (September 30, 2011).
- November 2005 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Brazil Sugar and the WTO: Agricultural Reform in the European Union
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Kerry Herman and Irina Tarsis
Pedro de Camargo Neto, Brazil's secretary of trade and production for the Ministry of Agriculture, has won a WTO sugar decision for Brazil against the EU sugar policies. This case analyzes what this decision will mean to world food policies, especially those of the EU...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Trade;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Europe;
United States;
Brazil
Goldberg, Ray A., Kerry Herman, and Irina Tarsis. "Brazil Sugar and the WTO: Agricultural Reform in the European Union." Harvard Business School Case 906-408, November 2005. (Revised April 2006.)