Trading - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2006 (Revised June 2007)
Teaching Note

Conflict on a Trading Floor (TN) (A) and (B) (LCA)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Aldo Sesia

Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Stocks

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Merchants as Business Groups: British Trading Companies in Asia before 1945

By: G. Jones and Judith Wale

Merchants formed an important component of British foregn direct investment before 1945. Locating in parts of Asia, Latin America and other developing economies, they often diversified into non-trading activities, inclding the ownership of plantations. This article... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Developing Countries and Economies; Diversification; Competency and Skills; Entrepreneurship; Foreign Direct Investment; Asia; Latin America; Europe; Africa; North and Central America

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April 2004
Article

Do CEOs in Mergers Trade Power for Premium? Evidence from 'Mergers of Equals'

By: Julie Wulf

I analyze chief executive officer (CEO) incentives to negotiate shared control in the postmerger governance of the surviving firm. In order to do this, I study abnormal returns in a sample of "mergers of equals" (MOEs) transactions in which the two firms are... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation; Governance Controls; Power and Influence; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Motivation and Incentives; Market Transactions

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2021
Working Paper

Trade and the Single Car Market: The EC-Japan Elements of Consensus, 1985–1999

By: Grace Ballor

In 1991, in the midst of the program to create a liberal Single European Market and in the context of a new Joint Declaration for cooperation with Japan, the European Commission brokered a private deal to restrict Japanese imports into the European Community for nearly... View Details

Keywords: Market; Protectionism; Liberalization; Trade; Markets; International Relations; Auto Industry; Europe; European Union; Japan

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September 1987 (Revised January 1992)
Case

Semiconductor Industry Association and the Trade Dispute with Japan (C), The

By: David B. Yoffie and John J. Coleman

Keywords: Trade; Competition; Semiconductor Industry; Japan; United States

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June 1987 (Revised February 1988)
Case

Semiconductor Industry Association and the Trade Dispute with Japan (B), The

By: David B. Yoffie and John J. Coleman

Keywords: Trade; Competition; Semiconductor Industry; Japan; United States

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29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

issue of responsibility to the community and who you are as a person.” Written in 1458 in Italy by trade merchant Benedetto Cotrugli, The Book of the Art of Trade recently received its first English... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

April 1994
Supplement

Trade Policy and Firm Strategy: Comments by Joe Massey, Video

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1993
Chapter

Regulating the International Trade in Hazardous Pesticides: Closing the Accountability Gap

By: L. S. Paine

Keywords: Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Accountability; Chemical Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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1994
Casebook

International Trade and Competition: Cases and Notes in Strategy and Management

By: B. Gomes-Casseres and D. B. Yoffie

Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management

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11 Feb 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Tommy Koh and the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement: A Multifront ‘Negotiation Campaign’

Keywords: by Laurence A. Green & James K. Sebenius

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The Ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Chapter 11 Restructurings (with Victoria Ivashina and David Smith)

This paper explores a novel data set that identifies over 71,000 investors holding debt claims of 136 companies filing for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection during the period of 1998 through 2009. We investigate how concentration in debt ownership relates to... View Details