Publications

July 1981
Supplement

Reagan Plan, The: Supplement

By: D. Quinn Mills

Supplements the case. View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Government Administration

Purchase

May 1981 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Contains President Reagan's address to Congress in February of 1981 in which he proposes $49 billion in budget cuts and tax reductions. Also contains David Stockman's "economic Dunkirk" memorandum of November 1980. Exhibits contain economic data. Purpose is to provide... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Economy; Government and Politics; Budgets and Budgeting; United States

Educators

Purchase

1981
Chapter

Foreign Investors from the Third World

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies

April 1981
Case

Mexican Rural Development: SAM and PIDER

Keywords: Development Economics; Food; Rural Scope; Mexico

January 1981 (Revised February 1982)
Case

People's Republic of China: Development Strategies and Performance

Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; China

1981
Chapter

Mathematical Analysis and Convexity with Applications to Economics

By: Jerry R. Green and Walter P. Heller

December 1980 (Revised January 1994)
Case

International Foodstuffs

By: David E. Bell

Describes three fairly routine instances in which considerations of risk exposure in foreign exchange are necessary. The three are a delayed payment for a grain shipment, a foreign subsidiary facing devaluation of its domestic currency, and a foreign acquisition. The... View Details

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Risk and Uncertainty; International Relations; Mergers and Acquisitions; Money; International Finance; Financial Services Industry

1980
Chapter

Should Accounting Standards be Set inthe Public or Private Sector?

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Accounting; Standards; Public Sector; Private Sector; Decision Making

March 1980
Article

Values for Games Without Sidepayments: Some Difficulties with Current Concepts

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Value; Money; Information

1980
Mimeo

The Generation of Industrial Technology by the Less Developed Countries

By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: Information Technology; Developing Countries and Economies

1980
Mimeo

Transfer of Industrial Technology Among the Developing Countries

By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: Information Technology; Developing Countries and Economies

November 1979
Case

Bribery and Extortion in International Business

By: Louis T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Trade

1979
Book

Financial Support of Women's Programs in 1970s

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Money; Programs

April 1979 (Revised April 1986)
Case

Mexico: Development Strategies and Performance

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development Strategy; Mexico

March–April 1979
Article

How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy

By: M. E. Porter

Many factors determine the nature of competition, including not only rivals, but also the economics of particular industries, new entrants, the bargaining power of customers and suppliers, and the threat of substitute services or products. A strategic plan of action... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Strategy

1979
Book

Diversification through Acquisition: Strategies for Creating Economic Value

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Wolf A. Weinhold

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Strategy; Value; Diversification

1978
Article

An Incentive Compatible Planning Procedure for Public Good Production

By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont

It is only recently that economic theorists have faced the fact that the proposed allocation mechanisms in economies with public goods might have bad incentive properties. In this paper we introduce a new planning procedure such that truthful revelation of the marginal... View Details

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December 1978 (Revised November 1985)
Background Note

Economic Cost-Benefit Analysis

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits