Budgeting and Finance

Kentucky Housing Corporation and Mortgage Insurance

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

During the spring of 1987, a Kentucky Housing Corporation committee appointed by Executive Director Lynn Luallen met regularly to discuss whether the corporation should itself get into the mortgage insurance business. In the past, the...

Jerusalem Steel Corporation

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

This hypothetical case is set in the spring of 1988, in the midst of the downturn of the Reagan administration's once-booming economy. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Roger Auchincloss is preparing for a meeting with Edgar Bowser, CEO of...

Mess and Maintenance at Marine Boot Camp: Epilogue

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

For the US Marine Corps and the other military services, the mid-to-late 1970s was a time of serious budgetary constraints. Anti-military sentiment was running high in the wake of the Vietnam War and President Carter had been swept into office...

Mess and Maintenance at Marine Boot Camp

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

For the US Marine Corps and the other military services, the mid-to-late 1970s was a time of serious budgetary constraints. Anti-military sentiment was running high in the wake of the Vietnam War and President Carter had been swept into office...

US-Canada Free Trade Negotiations (I): Gaining Approval to Proceed (B: Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

In 1985, US Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter began preparing for trade talks with Canada, the largest US trading partner. The goal was an agreement that would virtually eliminate trade barriers between the two nations. But by the mid-1980s,...

US-Canada Free Trade Negotiations (I): Gaining Approval to Proceed (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

In 1985, US Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter began preparing for trade talks with Canada, the largest US trading partner. The goal was an agreement that would virtually eliminate trade barriers between the two nations. But by the mid-1980s,...

US-Canada Free Trade Negotiations (I): Gaining Approval to Proceed (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

In 1985, US Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter began preparing for trade talks with Canada, the largest US trading partner. The goal was an agreement that would virtually eliminate trade barriers between the two nations. But by the mid-1980s,...

Financing Indonesia's Roads

Publication Date: January 1, 1986

In the fall of 1986, the World Bank offered the government of Indonesia a loan of approximately US $200-250 million for highway construction in the capital city of Jakarta and the country's other four largest urban centers. It was an attractive...

Bailing Out Boston: The Tregor Legislation (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In November 1980, voters in Massachusetts overwhelmingly approved a tax limitation referendum called Proposition 2 l/2, which restricted the property tax levy for each Massachusetts city and town to 2 l/2 percent of the fair market value of all...

Bailing Out Boston: The Tregor Legislation

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In November 1980, voters in Massachusetts overwhelmingly approved a tax limitation referendum called Proposition 2 1/2, which restricted the property tax levy for each Massachusetts city and town to 2 1/2 percent of the fair market value of all...

City of Austin Electric Power and Light System and the South Texas Nuclear Project (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

The City of Austin's public power authority has invested in the South Texas Nuclear Project in anticipation of growth in electricity demand. The nuclear project has fallen on hard times and city officials must decide whether to default on...

City of Austin Electric Power and Light System and the South Texas Nuclear Project

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

The City of Austin's public power authority has invested in the South Texas Nuclear Project in anticipation of growth in electricity demand. The nuclear project has fallen on hard times and city officials must decide whether to default on...