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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
India, Brazil, and other developing nations shook off decades of economic stagnation to achieve remarkable growth. Concurrently, world trade advanced to the point that capital and products now flow freely around the globe. All these... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
energy. Bulletin editor Dan Morrell spoke with Kortenhorst about his career path and how the world can make renewables a reality. READ MORE Dan Morrell: Jules, tell me a little bit about what Rocky Mountain Institute does, and what your... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
struggled to get twenty-five people to the conference. At that conference the academics and consultants came together and created a professional society called the Family Firm Institute (FFI) to develop professionals in the field. Now,... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
Free Trade Agreement, went about securing buy-in: "News might arrive that a representative who had been leaning toward yes had come out as a no…. When he heard the bad news, [Daley went into action].… 'Can we find the guy... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
who accompanied his own goods to trade fairs. Taking this concept as its point of departure, this essay focuses on the predominantly Italian merchants who controlled the long-distance East-West trade of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
trade and production for the Ministry of Agriculture, has won a WTO sugar decision for Brazil against the EU sugar policies. This case analyzes what this decision will mean to world food policies, especially those of the EU and the United... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
in a population. This chapter advances a historical comparison of these two methods-individual case reports and population meta-analysis-and draws attention to the fragmentation of the institutional basis for assessing pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
intermediation and may have slowed employment gains in trade and services. Development lending goals were met, but these had no impact on the real economy. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
announcements on trading behavior in a simulated and real stock market setting. I find evidence that the involvement of stars impacts movies' expected theatrical revenues, and I provide insight into the magnitude of that effect. For... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending, as well as other innovative mortgages issued in the 1990s. It also discusses how these mortgages were packaged... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
in the world of finance. They marshal trillions of dollars on behalf of their institutions and influence how capital flows throughout the world. But these elite investors live outside the public eye. Across the entire investment industry,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
drug trade in North America for a new TV documentary series. Local Color by Gwen Keane (PMD 50) (High Tide Publications) Based on her experiences growing up in a farm community in the 1950s, Keane describes an undeveloped area where... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
show that politicians use school ties as a mechanism to engage in vote trading ("logrolling"), and that alumni networks help facilitate the procurement of discretionary earmarks. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
trades or as free agents. The NFL instituted unrestricted free agency on March 1, 1993. Prior to this, under “Plan B,” a team could protect 37 of its players with the right of first refusal. The plan also... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: U.S. Law and Economics in the 1920s By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—The impact of institutional economics in shaping the American regulatory tradition has largely been dismissed as an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008
Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918 Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Noel Maurer Abstract Abstract We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
undervaluing its currency. The Chinese government has pegged the yuan at 8.3 to the dollar since 1996, which undervalues it by 15 to 25 percent, according to Morris Goldstein of the Institute for International Economics in Washington,... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
the World Bank gave committed officials the political opportunity to experiment with new programs in underperforming regions, which they progressively extended across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne