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The Price Impact of Joining a Currency Union: Evidence from Latvia

By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon
Does membership in a currency union matter for a country’s international relative prices? The answer to this question is critical for thinking about the implications of joining (or exiting) a common currency area. This paper is the first to use high-frequency... View Details
Keywords: Currency Union; Exchange Rate; Law Of One Price; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; Latvia
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  • April 2011 (Revised December 2017)
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Latvia: Navigating the Strait of Messina

By: Rafael Di Tella, Rawi Abdelal and Natalie Kindred
This case describes Latvia's transition from a Soviet republic into an EU member, its economic boom and subsequent bust in 2008, and its policy response. After implementing significant economic and political reforms in order to qualify for EU membership in 2004, Latvia... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Competitive Strategy; Economic Growth; Policy; Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Latvia
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  • February 2007 (Revised November 2007)
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Latvia: Economic Strategy after EU Accession

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
Describes the economic development of Latvia, a small eastern European country on the shores of the Baltic Sea, from regaining independence in 1991 to European Union (EU) accession in 2004 and is set on May 1st, 2004, the day Latvia became an EU member. Latvia had... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Policy; Business and Government Relations; European Union; Latvia
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National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

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  • 15 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

©iStockphoto Here's some heartening news for working mothers worried about the future of their children. Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea Korea (Democratic People's Republic of) Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lao People's Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macao Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives... View Details
  • October 2002 (Revised March 2017)
  • Teaching Note

DIENA

By: Robert Simons and Indra Reinbergs
Teaching Note for (102-001) View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Execution; Management Control Systems; Organization Design; Implementing Strategy; Pulp and Paper Industry; Publishing Industry; Latvia
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  • 15 Sep 2010
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Microeconomic Aspects of Competitiveness:Lessons for Post-Crisis Growth Policies

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Prof. Christian Ketels - Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School and Center for Strategy and Competitiveness, Stockholm School of Economics View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Society; Latvia
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  • September 2001 (Revised October 2018)
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DIENA

By: Robert Simons and Indra Reinbergs
Requires students to draw a new organization structure diagram for a rapidly evolving business. A/S DIENA is a newspaper publisher founded during Latvia's 1990/91 struggle for independence from the USSR with a clear social mission to support democracy. With the help of... View Details
Keywords: Employee Ownership; Organizational Design; Marketing Strategy; Managerial Roles; Growth and Development; Economic Systems; Publishing Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Latvia
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  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

member, its economic boom and subsequent bust in 2008, and its policy response. After implementing significant economic and political reforms in order to qualify for EU membership in 2004, Latvia had turned its sights toward joining the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2007
  • Teaching Note

Latvia: Economic Strategy after EU Accession (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
Teaching note to 707515. View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Perspective; Opportunities; Retail Industry; Latvia; Russia; China; Germany; India
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

structures outmoded, thereby creating both opportunities and risks for firms and households. Representative cases include Margaret Thatcher and the Blair wealth project; Latvia navigating the strait of Messina; Eliot Spitzer pushing Wall... View Details
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

Describes the economic development of Latvia, a small eastern European country on the shores of the Baltic Sea, from regaining independence in 1991 to European Union (EU) accession in 2004 and is set on May 1st, 2004, the day Latvia... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

of nationalisms in terms of their relationship with the global economy. So where we find nationalism is most powerful in, say, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and we find nationalist movements demanding that their states become more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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the environment can render previously successful institutional structures outmoded, thereby creating both opportunities and risks for firms and households. Representative cases include Margaret Thatcher and the Blair wealth project; View Details