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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
When Putin took power in 2000, he established a protection deal among powerful business owners. Clifford Gaddy and Barry Ickes discuss the intricacies of this arrangement and what message a recent suit against one of the country’s leading business newspapers is meant to send.
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:00:00 GMT
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- October 21, 2009, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
On October 21, the Initiative on Business and Public Policy explored the government’s role in the struggling auto industry and their future relationship. Steven Rattner, former head of the Obama administration’s Task Force on the Auto Industry, delivered the keynote address.
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Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Cheng Li joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to discuss the arrest of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu and the need to understand the continually increasing business opportunities in China.
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Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The long-awaited Obama administration plan to reform financial regulation has arrived. The good news, says Douglas Elliott, is that the specific proposals are virtually all sensible and constructive. The bad news is that there were some missed opportunities.
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Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Technology can be a tool for making government better and democracy stronger. However, the public sector has continued to fall behind the private sector in technology innovation, writes Darrell West. Evaluating the web sites of leading U.S. corporations with state and national governments, West offers five reasons why the private sector has outpaced government in effective innovation, and ways the public sector could improve.
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Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
There is no question we are witnessing a fundamental economic and technological transformation of journalism, writes Darrell West. However, while traditional business models are dying, new ones are still being developed. In this multi-faceted, new-media universe, West says we need an information strategy for the news industry that expands on digital media's strengths while encouraging in-depth coverage.
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Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:15:00 GMT
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- March 31, 2009, 9:15 AM to 11:30 AM
As public outrage grows over bonuses paid to employees at private firms being bailed out by the government, many are asking whether some companies are "too big to fail" and the consequences of propping up firms at any cost. The Initiative on Business and Public Policy at Brookings hosted Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Gary H. Stern and Vice President Ron J. Feldman to discuss the issue, along with former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
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Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
As the effects of the financial crisis continue to be felt across the globe, much of Latin America should be well prepared to weather the global financial storms with more opportunity for growth. In a speech at the Economist's 11th Annual Conference on Latin America Private Equity, held in Miami Florida, Mauricio Cárdenas discusses how the United States and Latin American countries can work together, not only on financing and aid, but also on issues like trade, migration, energy, and climate change.
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Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:12:14 GMT
Brookings Guest Scholar Bill Frenzel, a former Member of Congress, says federal legislators should tread carefully when considering bailing out failing businesses.
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Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Harry Holzer examines the likely effects of “living wage” ordinances on employment outcomes, according to economic theory; as well as evidence on their actual effects.
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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The book Archon Fung, Mary Graham, and David Weil’s Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency provides a thorough discussion of governmentmandated disclosure policies. Clifford Winston uses their book to frame an empirical assessment of whether these—and other information policies—have significantly reduced the costs to consumers created by imperfect information.
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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:15:00 GMT
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- September 16, 2008, 8:15 AM to 2:00 PM
The way consumers pay for products and services is dramatically changing, with cash and checks now accounting for less than half of all transactions and falling fast. What payment technologies lie ahead and how will they change the way our economy works? Brookings’s Initiative on Business and Public Policy held an event with some of America’s leading experts—including Under Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department David H. McCormick and American Express CEO Ken Chenault—on the evolution of electronic payments.
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Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The 2008 Brookings Blum Roundtable recently convened representatives to focus on how the poor of the world will cope with climate change. With a few notable exceptions, the climate adaptation challenge, and the links between climate change, economic growth, human rights, and poverty alleviation, has not been high on the corporate agenda. Jane Nelson, an expert in corporate social responsibility, recommends the corporate community take action to address climate change adaptation in the developing world.
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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Michael O'Hanlon and Jack Keane assess a major private initiative called Welcome Back Veterans. The program, they write, is designed to complement government efforts to create new jobs for veterans returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Fri, 30 May 2008 10:48:14 GMT
Former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh examines today’s corporate culture and finds that, while it is replete with good corporate citizens, we've seen a culture of greed and failure to observe basic fiduciary duties in the first part of this decade. Thornburgh says it is time for a system of corporate best practices for good governance.
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Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
With the U.S. financial system still in a perilous state, Martin Baily, Doug Elmendorf and Bob Litan diagnose what caused the crisis and offer prescriptions for policy change. The authors of this new Brookings paper address two challenges: to resolve the immediate problems and to reduce the likelihood that these problems recur.
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Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT
International transportation experts compare and contrast how different nations have managed their airports and air traffic control systems and how well they are meeting the needs of their people.
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Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:30:00 GMT
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- April 08, 2008, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
On April 8, the American Assembly and the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings held a forum to discuss how the nation’s government, business, civic and community leaders can develop and implement new policies to revitalize older industrial areas. The strategies were based on the findings of the Brookings Institution Press book Retooling for Growth: Building a 21st Century Economy in America’s Older Industrial Areas.
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Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT
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- February 27, 2008, 12:00 PM to 12:00
The Global Economy and Development program at Brookings hosted the inaugural meeting of its Global Young Professionals Program on February 27, featuring Matt Flannery, CEO and co-founder of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person micro-lending Web site.
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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Michael O'Hanlon and Thomas Lynch argue that a nationwide network and civic military-to-civilian jobs programs are needed and that they will send a powerful message that the playing field is level for those who serve in the U.S. military.
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Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In a new Global working paper, Raj Desai and co-author Anders Olofsgård examines cronyism, specifically focusing on the competitiveness of politically favored firms, and finding that influential firms do innovate and invest less.
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Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Kristin Lord offers ideas for Arab countries to build a knowledge based society in which business can flourish.
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Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The $100 billion size of the high-cost non-bank basic financial services industry, including check cashers, payday lenders, and pawnshops, points to the high demand for basic financial services among low- and moderate-income customers. Alternative products sold by banks—located extensively in lower-income neighborhoods could meet those consumer needs, while also creating an opportunity for households to convert their current spending on high-cost services into savings and even wealth.
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Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Chris Leinberger discusses walkable urbanism, and how the desire for more walkable urban spaces is changing the housing market in America's cities as people seek alternatives to driving.
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Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:00:00 GMT
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- December 12, 2007, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
On December 12, the Hamilton Project at Brookings hosted a two-part forum at the National Press Club on ways to encourage, facilitate and reward work. Besides releasing a new Hamilton Project strategy paper, the forum highlighted four new and forthcoming discussion papers.
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Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Chris Leinberger discusses his book about the most walkable urban and metro areas in the United States with Nicole Lapin from CNN.
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Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Clifford Winston and Kenneth E. Train develop a consumer-level model of vehicle choice to shed light on the erosion of the U.S. automobile manufacturers’ market share during the past decade. They examine the influence of vehicle attributes, brand loyalty, product line characteristics, and dealerships.
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Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Visiting Scholar William Easterly reviews William Duggan's recent book Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement.
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Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The system for taxing business is broken; Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel is proposing a fix. Senior Fellow Jason Furman argues that the Rangel plan opens an important discussion that others—including the Bush Administration—should join.
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Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Robert W. Crandall and Hal J. Singer argue against new CAFE standards on Detroit automakers being considered by Congress.
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Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Robert Crandall and Hal Singer argue that, eventually, either the FCC or the courts will realize that regulating competitive telecommunications networks for the benefit of select content providers is not in the interest of American consumers.
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Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Robert Hahn and Hal Singer (06/27/07)
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Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Lael Brainard before the U.S. House Committee on Small Business (6/13/07)
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Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
This paper critically reviews the draft of the Office of Management and Budget's tenth report on the benefits and costs of federal regulations. The draft report is similar to previous reports, and does not break new ground.
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Fri, 11 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Op-ed by Robert Hahn and Paul Tetlock (05/11/07)
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Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Mary Graham, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (5/1/07)
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Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Op-ed by Robert Hahn and Robert E. Litan (May 2007)
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Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Gary Burtless shows how income inequality has changed in rich countries and considers how much of the change can be explained by closer economic integration between rich and poor countries.
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Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Network Neutrality Policy
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The strength of U.S. capital markets is in large part based on effective corporate governance. Without it, the valuable securities—including those in 401(k) plans and other retirement vehicles—of millions of Americans would be at risk. Dick Thornburgh and Michael J. Missal argue that the next President should protect the investments and retirement plans of millions of Americans by leading the effort to strengthen the roles of gatekeepers.
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Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Robert E. Litan (02/24/07)
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Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Robert Hahn (February 2007)
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Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Urjit Patel describes Indian regulation of natural gas markets in Business Standard
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Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Robert Crandall and Clifford Winston argue that policy-makers take the wrong approach in opposing recent merger attempts in the airline industry. While enforcement of antitrust laws can improve consumer welfare in some cases, Crandall and Winston conclude that government efforts to prevent such mergers "do little to improve consumer welfare and sometimes actually reduce it."
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Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT
People may realize different benefits and costs from the innovation, or have different beliefs about its benefits and costs, hear about it at different times, or delay in acting on their information. Peyton H. Young analyzes the dynamics arising from different sources of heterogeneity in a completely general setting without placing parametric restrictions on the distribution of the relevant characteristics.
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Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT
This paper, along with two detailed case studies, traces the shifting landscape of business-civic organizations in 19 U.S. metropolitan areas.
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Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Environmentally related taxes are increasingly used in OECD countries, and ample evidence of their effectiveness is now available. Great potential for wider use of these environmental policy instruments remains, however, provided they are well design
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Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Robert E. Litan, AEI-Brookings Joint Center (6/8/06)
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Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT
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- June 08, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Web Opinion by Ben Klemens
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Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
This week's stunning announcement by AT&T that it had reached an agreement to acquire BellSouth for $67 billion is surely an affront to proponents of a strong antitrust policy for two reasons.
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Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
While policymakers and leaders continue to debate the rebuilding of Gulf areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina, a much greater loss looms on the horizon. The storm illustrated the inability of private insurance markets to handle large-scale losses. "Mega-catastrophes" are catastrophic events, like Katrina, whose costs are so large and unpredictable that private insurers either are unwilling to insure against them, or charge premiums so high that significant numbers of customers do not want or cannot afford the insurance.
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Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
The devastating 2005 hurricane season—especially the three large hurricanes that struck the Gulf Coast and Florida (Katrina, Rita and Wilma)—has graphically demonstrated how dangerous nature can be. Add in the storms of 2004, and the last two hurricane seasons account for the seven of the twelve most costly natural disasters in American history, as shown in Table 1.
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Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Joseph Cortright examines clusters—groups of proximate firms and related economic actors and institutions—and translates a cross-section of the academic research into a series of policy-related conclusions to aid public officials, economic development
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Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Simply put, the federal government failed to help retain high-wage, high-productivity manufacturing.
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Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT
The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity and errors in measurement of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11 percent of productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately 5 percent of productivity growth.
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Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Martin Robins and Anne Strauss-Wieder argue that, rather than the Balkanized approach of the past, a systems-based and multimodal agenda for America's freight needs involving regional coordination, public-private partnership, and federal funding reco
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Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Deregulation of U.S. industry has been such a controversial issue for the past few decades that it is perhaps understandable that people do not realize that one deregulatory initiative — the 1980 Staggers Act that deregulated the rail freight industry — surprisingly turned out to benefit both consumers and the industry.
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Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:00:00 GMT
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- December 07, 2005, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT
This lively and innovative book is about computer code and the legal controls and restrictions on those who write it. Drawing on a host of examples, Ben Klemens describes and analyzes the intellectual property issues involved in the development of co
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Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Robert Litan writes that the FCC-approved mergers of AT&T and SBC, and MCI and Verizon are a profound reshaping of the large companies that provide communications services. But, while these mergers certainly merit a watchful eye by antitrust authorities and regulators, the new facts in telecomm should significantly ease concerns that the mergers are anti-competitive.
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Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:00:00 GMT
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- November 02, 2005, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Discussion of a new Brookings book, The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility, in which author David Vogel concludes that although the movement has produced a number of important achievements, it is best viewed as a complement rather than a substitute for more effective public policies.
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Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT
This essay provides more technical background, reviews the progress so far made, and discusses unresolved issues about cooperative governance for prudential financial oversight and the institutions that must carry out that governance.
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Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Steven Morrison and Clifford Winston testify before a House committee that the airline industry's financial problems are broadly associated with the industry’s long-term adjustment to airline deregulation. They propose ways that policy-makers can allow the industry to be more efficient and benefit the public.
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Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Ben Klemens (7/28/05)
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Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT
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Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by William G. Gale, The Washington Examiner (7/21/05)
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Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT
We develop a consumer-level model of vehicle choice to shed light on the erosion of the U.S. automobile manufacturers' market share during the past decade. Our model accounts for the influence of vehicle attributes, brand loyalty, product line characteristics, and dealerships on choice. We find that nearly all of the loss in market share for U.S. manufacturers can be explained by changes in basic vehicle attributes: price, size, power, operating cost, and body type. U.S. manufacturers have improved their vehicles' attributes but not as much as Japanese and European manufacturers have improved the attributes of their vehicles.
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Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT
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- June 30, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT
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- June 30, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Mon, 23 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston, Detroit Free Press (5/23/05)
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Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In Competition and Chaos, Robert W. Crandall analyzes the impact of the 1996 Telecommunications Act on economic welfare in the United States and how the act and its antecedents affected the major telecommunications providers.
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Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Jonathan Guryan and Melissa S. Kearney (April 2005)
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Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Melissa S. Kearney (February 2005)
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Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In The Four Pillars of High Performance, Light paints a portrait of the robust organizationthat rare organization which possesses both the agility to adjust to changes in the external environment at a moments notice, and the compass needed
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Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Conference Report #19 by Audrey Singer and Anna Paulson. (October 2004)
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Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:45:00 GMT
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- September 15, 2004, 11:45 AM to 2:00 PM
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Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:30:00 GMT
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- September 08, 2004, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
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Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Policy Brief by Pietro S. Nivola. (September 2004)
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Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Subscribe to Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services
The seventh in a series of annual volumes on the financia
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Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Policy Brief #136 by Charles L. Schultze. (July 2004)
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Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Speech by Larry D. Thompson, Chautauqua Institution (7/13/04)
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Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony of Charles H. Ferguson (04/28/04)
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Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT
As the Internet revolution continues to unfold and transform telecommunications, pressure is building for faster, less expensive, and more widely accessible broadband service. This new book analyzes the markets and policy issues underlying the broadb
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Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Robert W. Crandall, The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy (4/29/04)
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Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Event Summary on the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies event on Internet Telephony. (3/10/04)
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Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:30:00 GMT
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- March 10, 2004, 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
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Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Conference Report #17 by Richard J. Herring and Robert E. Litan. (March 2004)
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Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT
U.S.-France Analysis by Samy Cohen (January 2004)
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Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Policy Brief #129 by Robert E. Litan and Roger G. Noll. (January 2004)
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Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This book addresses a host of issues raised by the rapid growth of open source software, including government subsidies for research and development, government procurement policy, and patent and copyright policy. Contributors offer diverse perspecti
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Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Robert E. Litan and Roger G. Noll (12/02/03)
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Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:00:00 GMT
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- December 02, 2003, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
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Wed, 01 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This study examines the efforts of metro areas cities in Washington state, focusing on telecommunications infrastructure, startup capital programs, and research institutions and their roles in fostering technology development.
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Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett (09/19/03)
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Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:00:00 GMT
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- September 09, 2003, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
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Fri, 05 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT
In this book, noted scholars with divergent opinions examine the impact and validity of the Justice Departments actions against several significant corporations that rely on financial, transportation, and electronic networks to support their busines
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Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett
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Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Baseball's recurrent problems are all related to its special status as an unregulated legal monopoly. Alone among team sports, Major League Baseball enjoys a presumed exemption from the nation's antitrust laws.
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Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Fall 2003)