Publications

September 2002
Background Note

Note on WTO Disputes: Five Major Cases

By: David A. Moss and Nick Bartlett

Summarizes five major trade disputes before the World Trade Organization (WTO): (1) the Brazil-Canada aircraft dispute, (2) the European Union/United States foreign sales corporation dispute, (3) the Asian/United States shrimp and sea turtle dispute, (4) the United... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Conflict Management; Negotiation; Brazil; Canada; European Union; Asia; United States

2002
Book

When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager

Keywords: Risk Management

fall 2001
Article

Managing Money Risk in Antebellum New York

By: David A. Moss and Sarah A. Brennan

Keywords: Money; Risk and Uncertainty; Management

2001
Other Unpublished Work

'Pure Accidents' and the Evolving Bias of American Liability Law

By: David Moss and Michael Fein

Keywords: Legal Liability; Prejudice and Bias; United States

July 4, 2001
Editorial

An Economy for Kosovo, One Building Block at a Time

By: David A. Moss and Bruce R. Scott

Keywords: Economy; Kosovo

2001
Other Unpublished Work

Revisiting Coase's Federal Communications Commission: The Costs of Problematic History

By: David Moss and Michael Fein

Keywords: Government and Politics; United States

May 2001
Case

Free Trade vs. Protectionism: The Great Corn-Laws Debate (Abridged)

Examines the extended conflict between free traders and protectionists in 19th century Britain. It culminates with Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel's decision at the end of 1845 about whether to repeal the Corn Laws, a series of acts that had protected British... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Change Management; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; Market Entry and Exit; Conflict of Interests; Competitive Advantage; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Great Britain

March 2001
Teaching Note

German Hyperinflation of 1923, The TN

By: David A. Moss and Julio J. Rotemberg

Teaching Note for (1-798-048). View Details

Keywords: Germany

March 2001
Teaching Note

Creating the International Trade Organization TN

Teaching Note for (9-798-057). View Details

March 2001
Teaching Note

Crisis at the Federal Reserve: Arthur Burns and the Stagflation of 1973-75 TN

Teaching Note for (9-797-079). View Details

Keywords: United States

March 2001
Teaching Note

Free Trade vs. Protectionism: The Great Corn-Laws Debate TN

Teaching Note for (9-701-080). View Details

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Great Britain

February 2001
Teaching Note

French Pension System, The: On the Verge of Retirement? & (Abridged)

Teaching Note for (9-798-032) and (9-799-143). View Details

Keywords: Public Administration Industry; France

February 2001
Case

Free Trade vs. Protectionism: The Great Corn-Laws Debate

By: David A. Moss, Kevin P. Brennan, Matthew B. Gorin and Marian Lee

Examines the extended conflict between free traders and protectionists in nineteenth-century Britain. It culminates with Prime Minister Robert Peel's decision at the end of 1845 about whether to repeal the Corn Laws, a series of acts that had protected British... View Details

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; Change Management; Competitive Advantage; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Market Entry and Exit; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Great Britain

1999
Working Paper

Managing Money Risk in Antebellum New York: From Chartered Banking to Free Banking and Beyond

By: David A. Moss and Sarah Brennan

1999
Chapter

Courting Disaster: The Transformation of Federal Disaster Policy since 1803

Keywords: History; Natural Disasters; Policy; United States

April 1999
Case

French Pension System, The: On The Verge Of Retirement? (Abridged)

Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Economic Growth; Economics; Capital Markets; Wages; Public Administration Industry; France

Article

The Rise of Consumer Bankruptcy: Evolution, Revolution, or Both

By: David A. Moss and Gibbs A. Johnson

Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy

December 1998 (Revised January 1999)
Compilation

Explaining the Great Depression

By: David A. Moss and Joseph P Gownder

Although the Great Depression stands as the most punishing economic event of the 20th century, there is still remarkably little consensus about its causes. This case presents a number of prominent explanations including those of Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Maynard... View Details

Keywords: History; Financial Crisis; Theory; Economics

December 1998
Case

Origins of National Income Accounting

By: David A. Moss and Joseph P Gownder

Set in the Great Depression, this case explores the origins of national income accounting in the United States. Highlights Senator La Follette's 1932 proposal for the federal government to begin collecting national income statistics. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Financial Crisis; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; United States