Publications

spring 2001
Article

Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Law and Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories

By: Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner

Keywords: Research and Development; Law; Patents; Information Technology; Communication

2008
Other Unpublished Work

Clusters and Competitiveness: A New Federal Role for Stimulating Regional Economics

By: Karen G. Mills, Elisabeth B. Reynolds and Andrew Reamer

Keywords: Clusters; Competitiveness; Cluster Initiative Program; Regional Industry; Industry Clusters

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July 2000 (Revised August 2000)
Teaching Note

The U.S. Banking Panic of 1933 and Federal Deposit Insurance (TN)

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Teaching Note for (9-799-077). View Details

Keywords: Insurance; Government and Politics; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; United States

17 Mar 2025
News

Federal Layoffs Couldn’t Be Coming at a Worse Time for Workers

February 2009 (Revised September 2009)
Case

Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta

In his role as Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed), Art Rolnick and his colleague, Rob Grunewald, had written "Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return." The... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Early Childhood Education; Investment Return; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Performance Effectiveness; Nonprofit Organizations; Minneapolis; Saint Paul

Fall 2013
Article

Shifts in U.S. Federal Reserve Goals and Tactics for Monetary Policy: A Role for Penitence?

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

This paper considers some of the large changes in the Federal Reserve's approach to monetary policy. It shows that, in some important cases, critics who were successful in arguing that past Fed approaches were responsible for mistakes that caused harm succeeded in... View Details

Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; United States

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September 1988 (Revised January 1990)
Case

Federal Assistance to the Farm Credit System: The Road to Recovery?

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Agribusiness; Welfare; Government and Politics; Credit; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States

April 2025 (Revised June 2025)
Case

Paul Weiss: Fighting or Negotiating with POTUS

By: Eugene Soltes and Anthea Brady

In early 2025, Paul Weiss Chairman Brad Karp weighed how to respond to an Executive Order from President Trump that could threaten the financial livelihood of his law firm. Paul Weiss and Karp had to decide to mount a legal fight or negotiate with the White House. The... View Details

Keywords: Federal Government; Decision Making; Law; Mission and Purpose; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Legal Services Industry; United States

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

Spring 1993
Article

Did Installed Base Give Incumbent Any (Measurable) Advantages in Federal Computer Procurement?

By: Shane Greenstein

11 Jan 2023
Podcast

How federal stimulus can break new ground on economic development and good jobs

American Rescue Plan program director Todd Fisher on the complex business of steering billions in investments to build up talent pipelines along with local and regional economies. View Details

16 May 2024
News

Do I Need a College Degree to Work in the Federal Government?

June 2011
Case

Fighting a Dangerous Financial Fire: The Federal Response to the Crisis of 2007-2009

By: David Moss and Cole Bolton

By the summer of 2009, many observers concluded that a catastrophic financial collapse- which seemed all but imminent the previous fall and winter - had been averted. Although the recession had still yet to be declared over and the economy's footing remained far from... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Policy; Knowledge Acquisition

May 1995
Teaching Note

Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations and Corporate Criminal Fines Exercise TN

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro

Teaching Note for (9-393-060) and (9-394-101). View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Government and Politics; Corporate Governance

June 1984
Case

Federal Trade Commission and the Shared Monopoly Case against the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Manufacturers

By: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Monopoly; Courts and Trials; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

26 Dec 2024
News

Be Careful About Committing to a Single Real Estate Firm, Federal Authorities Warn

spring 1981
Article

From Competitor to Consumer: The Changing Focus of Federal Regulation of Advertising, 1914-1938

By: R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Competition; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Advertising

March 2001
Teaching Note

Crisis at the Federal Reserve: Arthur Burns and the Stagflation of 1973-75 TN

By: David A. Moss

Teaching Note for (9-797-079). View Details

Keywords: United States