Business and Government Relations

Mr. Nam's Dilemma

Publication Date: September 30, 2005

In 2000, Vietnam passed the Enterprise Law to spur private sector development and facilitate its transition from a centrally-planned to a market economy. The Enterprise Law changed the paradigm for private business in Vietnam by making business...

High Road or Low? Transparency International and the Corruption Perceptions Index

Publication Date: August 1, 2002

The challenge of spurring economic development in poorer nations had perplexed wealthy donor nations during much of the post-colonial, post-World War II period. During the 1990s, there developed a consensus that outside financial assistance was...

Cochin International Airport: Gateway to God's Own Country

Publication Date: March 01, 2002

Cochin International Airport opened in 1999 to widespread acclaim as the first and only airport to be constructed and operated by a private company in India. By 2001 the airport was generating enough revenue to cover its operating costs, but not...

Mexico's Competition Law and the Federal Competition Commission

Publication Date: November 01, 1998

In 1992, Mexico passed a law making certain anti-competitive practices illegal and creating a Federal Competition Commission (Comision Federal de Competencia) to enforce competition policies. This case describes the considerations involved in...

SAGASCO Holdings Limited

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

In the summer of 1993, Australia's Trade Practices Commission was considering whether or not to permanently enjoin Santos Limited from acquiring SAGASCO Holdings Limited. This merger was potentially of enormous significance, since Santos was the...

Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

The Urban League and the Youth Subminimum Wage

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In the spring of 1984, despite the economy's spectacular recovery from a severe recession, teenage unemployment remained a major problem: 19.4 percent of all teenagers and 44.8 percent of black youth, were jobless. At the urging of the Reagan...

Cable Wars (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

Set just before congressional deregulation of cable television in 1984, this economics and policy case offers students a chance to grapple with the question of whether local regulation of cable television is appropriate. It begins with a brief...

Cable Wars

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

Set just before congressional deregulation of cable television in 1984, this economics and policy case offers students a chance to grapple with the question of whether local regulation of cable television is appropriate. It begins with a brief...

Automobile Insurance

Publication Date: January 01, 1982

This case includes both conceptual materials on insurance and a description and assessment of a landmark regulatory decision that set auto insurance rates in Massachusetts. A series of essays describes the operation of markets under risk and...

A Failing Agency: The Federal Trade Commission

Publication Date: January 1, 1976

In January 1969, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was jolted by the publication of a report by Ralph Nader that branded the agency and its staff as inadequate and incompetent, and its action to curb unfair competition and deceptive practices...