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  • 2015
  • Chapter

Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Human Capital; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; United States
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  • Article

The Supply Chain Economy: New Policies to Drive Innovation and Jobs

By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills
The debate in economic policymaking about the drivers of innovation and job creation has long centered on manufacturing versus services. The predominant view is that manufacturing drives innovation, wages, and growth, and that services provide less innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Industries; Supply Chain; Economy; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions
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  • 1986
  • Chapter

Mercantilism and the Market: Antecedents of American Industrial Policy

Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Policy; Government and Politics; United States
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  • Article

California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
In the decades before World War II, U.S. antitrust law was anything but settled. Considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Laws and Statutes; Policy; United States
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  • 02 Apr 2020
  • News

What policy makers are missing from coronavirus — data

  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

When Does Industrial Policy Work? Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Fuel Industry

By: Santiago Mingo and Tarun Khanna
What is the impact of a state-led industrial policy program on entrepreneurial activity, industry evolution, and firm competitiveness? How and when is industrial policy an effective tool to spur the development of an emerging industry? To address these questions, we... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Industry Growth; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Energy Industry; Brazil
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  • Jan 2011
  • Other Presentation

Innovation and Competitiveness: Implications for Policy and Saudi Arabia

By: Michael E. Porter
Keywords: Economics; Saudi Arabia
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  • 2017
  • Casebook

Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management

By: Arnold M. Howitt, Dutch Leonard and David W. Giles
This book provides detailed accounts of a range of public health emergencies. Topics range from natural disasters, to infectious diseases, to pandemics, and more. With chapters on Superstorm Sandy, H1N1, the Ebola virus, and bioterrorism, these cases cover major areas... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Natural Disasters; Safety; Public Sector; Policy; Management
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The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data

By: Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos and Michael I. Norton
Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll data from over 150 countries,... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Business Cycles; Welfare; Perception; Global Range
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  • March 2011
  • Teaching Note

Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel (TN)

By: Karthik Ramanna
Teaching Note for 111028. View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Transition; Steel Industry; India
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  • May 2003
  • Other Presentation

Asia Competitiveness Institute Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
2003This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations(The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2002, (World... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Thailand
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  • 21 Sep 2016
  • News

Ideas with Economic and Social Impact

Corporation (IFC) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Her report, Financing High-Growth Firms, the Role of Angel Investors, written for and published by the OECD in 2011, has attracted interest from... View Details
  • February 2009 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

Upgrading the Economy: Industrial Policy and Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry

By: Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang
The government-led creation and incubation of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan is a striking success for advocates of strong industrial policy. It has led to the island nation's domination of the global "foundry" business in which firms like Taiwan Semiconductor... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Industry Structures; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth

By: Urooj Khan, Suresh Nallareddy and Ethan Rouen
We investigate the relation between the growth in corporate profits and the overall U.S. economy, focusing on the impact of the U.S. corporate tax regime on this relation. We document that the growth of corporate profits, on average, has outpaced the growth of the... View Details
Keywords: Taxes; Gdp; Corporate Profits; American Jobs Creation Act Of 2004; Taxation; Economic Growth; Profit; United States
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  • December 2008 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Special Economic Zones in India: Public Purpose and Private Property (A)

By: Laura Alfaro and Lakshmi Iyer
In 2005, the government of India enacted the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Act in order to attract investment, generate export revenues, and create manufacturing jobs. However, several planned projects faced difficulties in acquiring land for setting up the SEZ. In... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Policy; Government Legislation; Property; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; India
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  • fall 2002
  • Article

Policy Activism in a Globalized Economy: France's 35-hour Work Week

By: Gunnar Trumbull
Keywords: Policy; Globalization; Economy; France
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  • 11 Mar 2020
  • News

Making Sense of the Economic Impact of the Coronavirus

  • 01 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry

Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Zhi Huang; Banking
  • 12 Nov 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Tariff Passthrough at the Border and at the Store: Evidence from US Trade Policy

Keywords: by Alberto Cavallo, Gita Gopinath, Brent Neiman, and Jenny Tang
  • 27 Jun 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Positive and Normative Judgments Implicit in US Tax Policy and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions

Keywords: by Benjamin Lockwood & Matthew Weinzierl