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The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance

Kogut, Bruce (contributor) - The MIT Press

The financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This book maps the influence of these types of economic and...

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The Economics of Collusion: Cartels and Bidding Rings

Marhsall, Robert C.; Marx, Leslie M. - The MIT Press

Explicit collusion is an agreement among competitors to suppress rivalry that relies on interfirm communication and/or transfers. Rivalry between competitors erodes profits; the suppression of rivalry through collusion is one avenue by which firms can enhance profits. Many cartels and bidding...

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Intellectual Property Strategy

Palfrey, John - The MIT Press

Most managers leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization’s intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing new markets to improving existing products to generating new revenue streams. In this book,...

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The Indirect Side of Direct Investment: Multinational Company Finance and Taxation

Mintz, Jack M.; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - The MIT Press

The Indirect Side of Direct Investment Multinational Company Finance and Taxation Jack M. Mintz and Alfons J … multinational taxation. In this book, taxation experts Jack Mintz and Alfons Weichenrieder examine how multinational corporations … taxes. They spell out in detail how different tax policies affect corporations' choice of financing structures, discussing …

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Money, Macroeconomics, and Economic Policy: Essays in Honor of James Tobin

Brainard, William C.; Nordhaus, William D.; Watts, Harold W. - The MIT Press

and extend Tobin's contributions to macroeconomics, international economics, finance, and economic policy. …

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Privatizing Russia

Boycko, Maxim; Shleifer, Andrei; Vishny, Robert W. - The MIT Press

Privatizing Russia offers an inside look at one of the most remarkable reforms in recent history. Having started on the back burner of Russian politics in the fall of 1991, mass privatization was completed on July 1, 1994, with two thirds of the Russian industry privately owned, a rapidly rising...

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Confidence Games: Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry

Rostain, Tanina; Regan, Jr., Milton C. - The MIT Press

For ten boom-powered years at the turn of the twenty-first century, some of America’s most prominent law and accounting firms created and marketed products that enabled the very rich--including newly minted dot-com millionaires--to avoid paying their fair share of taxes by claiming benefits...

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Intermediate Public Economics

Hindriks, Jean; Myles, Gareth D. - The MIT Press

but in its balance between public finance and public choice and its combination of theory and relevant empirical evidence …

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Economics After the Crisis: Objectives and Means

Turner, Adair - The MIT Press

The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system’s underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical shift to New Deal-like economic policies predicted by some never took...

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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press

Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor...

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