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- 2005
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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment
- 25 May 2005
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness in a Global Economy: Issues for Luxembourg
Competitiveness presentation on Luxembourg View Details
- November 2004
- Article
Unemployment Benefits As a Substitute for a Conservative Central Banker
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
In the many years since their introduction, positive theories of inflation have rarely been tested. This paper documents a negative relationship between inflation and the welfare state (proxied by the parameters of the unemployment benefit program) that is to be... View Details
- 2004
- Working Paper
Economic Effects of Regional Tax Havens
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
- July 2004 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century
By: Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Koll and Alexis Gendron
This case examines the role of Jardine Matheson, a trading company founded by two Scottish merchants, in the opium trade between India and China during the nineteenth century. The two Opium Wars fought between Western powers and China, which sought to stop opium... View Details
- May 2004 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Turkey: Securing Stability in a Rough Neighborhood
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Emily Thompson
After suffering years of volatility and crises, Turkey desperately sought macroeconomic and political stability in an ever-worsening region of the world. In the short term, Turkey had to repay its debt, which amounted to more than 80% of GDP. By January 2004, Turkey... View Details
- March 2004 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
St. Louis: Inner-City Economic Development
By: Michael E. Porter, Anne S. Habiby and Joanne Lasala
Describes the history and challenges of the economically distressed inner city areas of St. Louis, a major U.S. metropolitan area. Profiles regional and inner city economics and describes a new effort by community leaders to develop and implement a strategy to... View Details
- March 2004 (Revised June 2004)
- Case
Blackout: August 14, 2003
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Ryland Matthew Willis
On August 14, 2003, an electricity blackout cascaded throughout the northeastern United States and Canada. Describes the structure, technology, and economics of the electric utility industry and how gradual deregulation beginning in the 1970s placed unprecedented, and... View Details
- 2004
- Chapter
Interpreting Interdependence: National Security and the Energy Trade of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
By: Rawi Abdelal
- 27 Feb 2004
- Other Presentation
The Competitive Advantage of Regions
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2001,... View Details
- 10 Oct 2003
- Other Presentation
Massachusetts Regional Competitiveness Councils: Survey Results for Berkshire, Pioneer Valley, and Central Regions
- 10 Oct 2003
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness in Central Massachusetts
- 10 Oct 2003
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness in the Pioneer Valley
- 30 Sep 2003
- Other Presentation
Cape & Islands Regional Competitiveness Council Upper Cape Regional Technical School
- 30 Sep 2003
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness in Northeast Massachusetts
- 30 Sep 2003
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness in the Cape & Islands
- August–October 2003
- Article
The Economic Performance of Regions
- 20 Jun 2003
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness Towards an Agenda for London
Regional competitiveness presentation delivered in London, U.K. View Details
- 13 May 2003
- Other Presentation
The Competitive Advantage of Regions
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2001,... View Details