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  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

do the neighbors annoy each other with their foreign policies, but they're also vying to dominate Asia. Moreover, the world's fastest-growing economies are archrivals for raw materials, technologies, capital, and overseas markets. Still,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

IASB is working closely with the FASB to converge the U.S. and IAS standards. The Securities and Exchange Commission has even considered letting foreign companies list on U.S. View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade

exchanges and influences occurred through many channels—from the Chinese art and antiquities that Americans exported home, the ways in which wealthy traders gave back to their communities, and the archive of records merchants left behind... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

get business done through personal relationships. Conversely, relationships that begin as purely instrumental and task-oriented exchanges can be quickly overlaid with emotional elements. For foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

forthcoming IMF Economic Review Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

RX for Change

presentation on the Dutch health-care system. The program included clinicians and administrators from the United States and fifteen foreign countries. In addition, participants say they value their time on campus as an opportunity to step... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

to corrupt behavior.   Working Papers Carry Trade, Reserve Accumulation, and Exchange-Rate Regimes By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Carry-trade activity and foreign participation in local-currency-bond markets in emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

emerging markets sample. Also, the more-levered large firms are more vulnerable to exchange rate shocks than smaller firms with comparable levels of leverage. While this result holds for the average country in our sample, there is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

concentration by approximately 18%. With respect to the syndicate composition, a one-standard-deviation increase in the divergence is associated with a 20% decrease in foreign bank participation and an 18% increase in the overall... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

radical change in the world of U.S.-listed foreign firms. In March 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court signaled its intention to geographically limit the reach of the U.S. antifraud regime. The Court thus excluded the overwhelming majority of... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

College of New York, where he received his BA cum laude in 1933. He earned a Ph.D. in economics in 1941 from Columbia University. He then spent 24 years at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of State working on... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Pursuing the Ultimate Deal

lessening of hostilities is achievable. One proposal that was raising hopes in mid-March was the Saudi initiative that offered Israel normalization of relations with Arab countries in exchange for Israel's withdrawal to its pre-1967... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Middle East; peace; Israel; Palestine; policy; Government
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

This Is What I Do

with the investment-management firm PIMCO, Lemmon is now the deputy director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, the influential, nonpartisan think tank headquartered... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Profile

Deborah A. Farrington

wish you had a boy?” he would laugh and reply “I wouldn’t know what to do with boys! I love my girls!” In fact, his optimism and encouragement coupled with his connection to Wall Street instilled a financial curiosity in Farrington that was View Details
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

Foreign Direct Investment, Productivity, and Financial Development: An Empirical Analysis of Complementarities and Channels Authors:Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Publication:The World Economy (forthcoming). (Special... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715432-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-019 A Currency We Can Call Our Own: Populism, Banking Crises, and Exchange Rate Crises in Argentina, 1946-2002 The case describes Argentina's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the exchange relationship and the dispute, the choice of contracting structure has important strategic implications. The Globe: The China Rules: A Practical Guide for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

information environment in which foreign subsidiaries operate affects investment decisions in multinational corporations (MNCs). We hypothesize and find that foreign subsidiaries in country-industries with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

$how Me the Money

he too emphasizes that making facilitating payments for essential documents and services is a routine fact of life in many countries, so much so that facilitating payments are not barred by the 1977 U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

  Publications August 2013 The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal By: Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton Abstract—In this paper we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne