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- March 2014 (Revised June 2015)
- Case
Can Mexico Make Democracy Work?
By: Gunnar Trumbull and Jonathan Schlefer
Enrique Peña Nieto, the presidential candidate of the old Mexican ruling party elected in 2012, passed the most fundamental reforms in at least two decades. They included allowing private competition in the energy sector, including with the state-owned oil company,... View Details
Keywords: Democratization; Economic Development; Competition Policy; Exchange Rates; Comparative Advantage; Growth and Development; Government Legislation; Political Elections; Economic Growth; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Industry; Communications Industry; Banking Industry; Latin America; Mexico
- April 2013
- Case
Europe: An Ever Closer Union?
By: Gunnar Trumbull, Jonathan Schlefer and Diane Choi
In 2010, the European Union faces the challenges of the global financial crisis. With 27 member states, each facing different challenges, can new EU institutions respond effectively? Will its new currency, the euro, survive? View Details
- 2012
- Book
Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests
By: Gunnar Trumbull
This book investigates the sources of interest group influence on public policy. Trumbull argues that diffuse groups like consumers are more influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. View Details
- Article
Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France
By: Gunnar Trumbull
Research into the causes of the 2008 financial crisis has drawn attention to a link between growing income inequality in the United States and high household indebtedness. Most accounts trace the U.S. idea of credit-as-welfare to the period of wage stagnation and... View Details
Keywords: Household Finance; Welfare State; Credit; Personal Finance; Welfare; Borrowing and Debt; France; United States
- Fall 2011
- Article
A Brief Postwar History of U.S. Consumer Finance
By: Gunnar Trumbull and Peter Tufano
In this brief history of U.S. consumer finance since World War II, the sector is defined based on the functions delivered by firms in the form of payments, savings and investing, borrowing, managing risk, and providing advice. Evidence of major trends in consumption,... View Details
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
Santander Consumer Finance (TN)
Teaching Note for 711015. View Details
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
Common Agricultural Policy and the Future of French Farming (TN)
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull and Diane Choi
Teaching Note for 707027. View Details
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (TN) (A) & (B)
Teaching Note for 709017 and 710018. View Details
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
European Union: The Road to Lisbon (TN)
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull and Diane Choi
Teaching Note for 711032. View Details
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
The Euro in Crisis: Decision Time at the European Central Bank (TN)
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Dante Roscini and Diane Choi
Teaching Note for 711049. View Details
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
The Financial Crisis of 2008 (TN)
Teaching Note for 709036. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis
- March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany (TN)
By: Diego A. Comin and J. Gunnar Trumbull
Teaching Note for 711022. View Details
- March 2011
- Supplement
Fraunhofer: Five Significant Innovations
By: Diego A. Comin, J. Gunnar Trumbull and Kerry Yang
Keywords: Innovation and Invention
- March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany
By: Diego A. Comin, J. Gunnar Trumbull and Kerry Yang
Fraunhofer is one of the largest applied research organizations in the world. With 17,000 employees and a 1.6 billion euros budget, Fraunhofer has 60 institutes in Germany that cover most fields of science. The case examines the consequences that Fraunhofer has for the... View Details
- March 2011
- Module Note
Varieties of Capitalism
This module, part of the second year HBS course MITI, introduces a political economy approach to analyzing national economic strategies, with a primary focus on German economic policy. View Details
- March 2011
- Teaching Note
The Political Economy of Carbon Trading (TN)
Teaching Note for 710056. View Details
- December 2010 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
The Euro in Crisis: Decision Time at the European Central Bank
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Dante Roscini and Diane Choi
This case traces the origins and evolution of the European Central Bank, with attention to its 2010 decision concerning the purchase of Greek sovereign debt. View Details