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  • September 2014
  • Article

Colonial Institutions, Trade Stocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889–1930

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Martina Viarengo
We show how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted an unequal expansion of public schooling. We document how the variation in state export tax revenues, product of commodity booms, explains improvements in... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Economic History; Education; Development Economics; Policy; Brazil
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Musacchio, Aldo, Andre C. Martinez Fritscher, and Martina Viarengo. "Colonial Institutions, Trade Stocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889–1930." Journal of Economic History 74, no. 3 (September 2014): 730 –766.
  • 02 Mar 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

concentrate on fostering a stronger trade partnership between the US and China rather than thinking about it primarily as a competition. Janik Kersten commented that “China today is not yet taking part in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • March 1992 (Revised November 1993)
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Trading the Right to Pollute: Developing the Market for Pollution Allowances

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Examines the issues underlying the formation of the market for tradeable pollution allowances, following the requirement of Title IV of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act. Examines the implications that these trade the allowances hold for the U.S. electric... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Pollutants; Trade; Utilities Industry
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Trading the Right to Pollute: Developing the Market for Pollution Allowances." Harvard Business School Background Note 292-120, March 1992. (Revised November 1993.)

    Trading Volume Manipulation and Competition Among Centralized Crypto Exchanges

    How competition affects manipulation by firms of information about important attributes of their products and how such information manipulation impacts firms’ short-term and long-term performance are open empirical questions. We use a setting that is especially... View Details
    • March 2003 (Revised September 2004)
    • Case

    Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement

    Examines the political and economic dimensions of the campaign to improve workers' rights around the world through the inclusion of labor standards in international trade agreements. The U.S.-Cambodia Textile Trade Agreement was the first agreement of its kind to link... View Details
    Keywords: Trade; Agreements and Arrangements; Rights; Working Conditions; Globalization; Consumer Products Industry; Cambodia; United States
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    Abrami, Regina M. "Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement." Harvard Business School Case 703-034, March 2003. (Revised September 2004.)
    • December 1997 (Revised March 1998)
    • Case

    Mid Ocean Limited: Trading Catastrophe Index Options

    By: Kenneth A. Froot and Markus Mullarkey
    An insurance industry executive must evaluate the potential of a set of newly-offered catastrophe insurance derivatives. The background addresses the roles of traditional reinsurance and securitization efforts in providing risk transfer and risk financing in the "cat"... View Details
    Keywords: Commodity Market; Derivatives; Insurance; Capital Markets; Natural Disasters; Risk Management; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Insurance Industry; Bermuda
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    Froot, Kenneth A., and Markus Mullarkey. "Mid Ocean Limited: Trading Catastrophe Index Options." Harvard Business School Case 298-073, December 1997. (Revised March 1998.)
    • 07 May 2025
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    3G Capital Unfazed By Trade War With China In $9 Billion Skechers Deal

    • 12 Apr 2015
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    Actively managed exchange traded funds are the NextShares big thing

    • 01 Aug 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

    AvigatorPhotographer Are Free Trade Notions Repeatedly Victim to Short-Term Thinking? Free trade and free markets are concepts to which many of us, given our training in... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 26 Feb 2018
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    Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade

    Erik Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is general manager of crop marketing for the Farmers Business Network in California. In this video, he describes how the organization is helping transform the agriculture space... View Details
    • 2009
    • Chapter

    The Sultan's Republic: Jealousy of Trade and Oriental Despotism in Paolo Mattia Doria

    By: Sophus A. Reinert
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    Reinert, Sophus A. "The Sultan's Republic: Jealousy of Trade and Oriental Despotism in Paolo Mattia Doria." In Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, edited by Gabriel Paquette, 253–269. Ashgate Publishing, 2009.
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Navigating Choppy Waters: How U.S. Trade Policy Uncertainty Affects Small Businesses

    By: David Atkin, Zoë Cullen and Ebehi Iyoha
    This paper explores the impact of recent changes in the US trade policy environment on small businesses. Drawing on a survey of more than 4,000 small businesses conducted between March 22 and 31, 2025, we examine firms’ knowledge, expectations, and decisions during... View Details
    Keywords: Trade; Risk and Uncertainty; Government Legislation; Globalization; International Relations; Small Business
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    Atkin, David, Zoë Cullen, and Ebehi Iyoha. "Navigating Choppy Waters: How U.S. Trade Policy Uncertainty Affects Small Businesses." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-048, April 2025.
    • 01 Oct 1996
    • News

    Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

    White House, however, public service soon called. In 1993, the President appointed Brody to be chairman and president of the government's trade financing agency, the Export-Import Bank of the United States.... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons
    • April 2022
    • Case

    The First Opium War and Global Free Trade

    By: Jeremy Friedman and Allison Lazarus
    The First Opium War (1839-1842) symbolized the peak of the era of European imperialism, with a political and cultural legacy that remains potent to this day. The British Empire, “acquired in a fit of absent-mindedness” as one observer famously claimed, seemed to be... View Details
    Keywords: Imperialism; Narcotics; Importing; History; Globalized Markets and Industries; Trade; Social Issues
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    Friedman, Jeremy, and Allison Lazarus. "The First Opium War and Global Free Trade." Harvard Business School Case 722-052, April 2022.
    • April 2019 (Revised December 2021)
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    Sears: The Demise of an American Icon

    By: Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott
    In 2019, ESL Investments’ $5.2 billion offer to purchase Sears Holdings out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, was accepted, despite opposition from the company's unsecured creditors and other parties. ESL, which was led by Eddie Lampert, had acquired a stake in Sears following... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Reorganization; Bonds; Restructuring; Business Divisions; Transformation; Fairness; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Motivation and Incentives; Retail Industry; United States
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    Mugford, Kristin, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Sears: The Demise of an American Icon." Harvard Business School Case 219-106, April 2019. (Revised December 2021.)
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    Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    share. — John Heard on life in Canton in the early 1840s, from his diary, 1891 46 Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities Westerners working at Augustine Heard & Co.... View Details
    • February 2001
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    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
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    Moss, David A., Kevin P. Brennan, Matthew B. Gorin, and Marian Lee. "Free Trade vs. Protectionism: The Great Corn-Laws Debate." Harvard Business School Case 701-080, February 2001.
    • 19 Mar 2018
    • News

    The Unintended Consequences Of Starting A Trade War With Mexico

    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Dani Rodrik
    We study preferences for government action in response to layoffs resulting from different types of labor-market shocks. We consider the following shocks: technological change, a demand shift, bad management, and three kinds of international outsourcing. Respondents... View Details
    Keywords: Labor; Markets; System Shocks; Trade; Attitudes; Surveys
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    Di Tella, Rafael, and Dani Rodrik. "Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25705, March 2019.
    • 26 May 2015
    • News

    Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

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