Results for Political economy:
Sarofim Family Career Development Professor
Department: Assistant Professor of Applied Economics
Contact: (617) 253-7190, bonatti@mit.edu
Expertise: Advertising; Applied economics; Auctions; Competition; Economics; Electronic media; Europe; European Union; Game theory; Google; Industrial economics; Industrial organization; Insurance; Internet; Italy; Media; Microeconomics; Online shopping; Optimal control; Political economy; Price fixing; Pricing; Social networks; Teams; Turkey
Department: Senior Lecturer, Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Contact: (617) 357-7474, jfleming@oxbio.com
Expertise: $100K Entrepreneurship Competition; Alliances; Analysts forecasts; Angel investing; Applied economics; Biopharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Business plans; Cancer, multi-drug therapy models; Capital budgeting; Capital market; CEO compensation; Corporate diversification; Corporate finance; Corporate governance; Economic history; Economics; Economics of organizations; Emerging businesses; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Euro; Federal Reserve; Finance; Financial engineering; Financial reporting; Foreign investment; Genetics; Germany; Health management; Healthcare industry; Hedge funds; HIV, multi-drug therapy models; Industrial economics; Investment analysis; Knowledge management; Medical devices; Medicine; Mergers and acquisitions; Microeconomics; Middle East; New ventures; Patents; Political economy; Research and development; Sarbanes-Oxley compliance; Startups; Technological innovation; Venture capital
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management
Department: Professor of Global Economics and Management
Contact: (617) 253-8996, kjforbes@mit.edu
Expertise: Applied economics; Capital controls; Contagion; Currency; Economic crisis; Economics; Economy, current conditions; Emerging markets; Exchange rates; Federal Reserve; Financial markets; Foreign investment; Global economics; Globalization; Interest rates; International economics; International finance; Investment, foreign; Macroeconomics; Monetary economics; Monetary policy; Political economy; United States
International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business
Department: Professor of Global Economics and Management
Contact: (617) 253-9768, yshuang@mit.edu
Expertise: Asia; China; Developing countries; Emerging markets; Environmental policy; Foreign investment; Global economics; Global entrepreneurship; Globalization; Government; Hong Kong; India; International management; International trade; Investment, foreign; Korea; Political economy; Singapore; Southeast Asia; Taiwan; Thailand
Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship
Department: Professor of Global Economics and Management
Contact: 617-290-9618, sjohnson@mit.edu
Expertise: Corporate governance; Economic crisis; Economics; Economy, current conditions; Entrepreneurship / New ventures; Government; New stock markets; Political economy; Sustainability; Tax policy; Trade policy; Unemployment; United States; Venture capital
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Professor of Management
Department: Professor of Finance
Contact: (617) 253-2289, lkogan@mit.edu
Expertise: Arbitrage pricing theory; Asset management and pricing; Derivatives; Finance; Financial engineering; Financial markets; Financial services; Options pricing, valuation; Portfolio choice; Stock market
Class of 1922 Professor of Political Science and Management
Department: Head, Department of Political Science
Contact: (617) 253-2610, rlocke@mit.edu
Expertise: Brazil; Business ethics; Corporate social responsibility; Developing countries, economics; Education; Energy; Environment; Environmental leadership; Europe; Future of work; Global entrepreneurship; Global trade standards; Globalization; Green industries; Human resource management; International entrepreneurship; Italy; Labor relations; Latin America; MBA; NGOs; Organizational change; Political economy; Social networks; Socially responsible business; Supply chain management; Sustainability; Worker / Management relations
Department: Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Contact: (617) 253-8040, jreilly@mit.edu
Expertise: Ethanol; Sustainability
Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management
Department: Professor of Applied Economics
Contact: (617) 258-8374, rigobon@mit.edu
Expertise: Africa; Applied economics; Argentina; Asia; Banking regulation; Bond markets; Brazil; Capital market; Contagion; Currency; Deflation; Developing countries, economics; Econometrics; Economic crisis; Economics; Economy, current conditions; Emerging markets; Equities; Euro; Europe; European Union; Exchange rates; Federal Reserve; Financial markets; Financial services; Foreign investment; France; Germany; Global trade standards; Globalization; Government; Healthcare; Hong Kong; Import quotas; India; Inflation; Interest rates; International economics; International finance; International trade; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Latin America; Macroeconomics; Managerial economics; Mexico; Monetary economics; Monetary policy; Oil; Political economy; Russia; Savings rates; Securities and Exchange Commission; Singapore; Southeast Asia; Spain; Stock exchange; Stock market; Sustainability; Taiwan; Thailand; Trade policy; Treasuries; United States; Valuation
Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Emeritus
Department: Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Contact: (617) 253-2957, rschmal@mit.edu
Expertise: Antitrust; Applied economics; Business ethics; Climate change; Climate policy; Competition; Competitive strategy; Corporate strategy and policy; Credit cards; Economics; Economy; Electronic publishing; Energy; Environment; Global climate change; Global warming; Government; High technology companies; Industrial economics; Industrial organization; Macroeconomics; Managerial economics; Microeconomics; Microsoft; Non-market strategy; Options; Political economy; Price fixing; Pricing; Public utilities; Publishing; Software; Stock exchange; Stock exchange consolidation; Tax policy; United States
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics Emeritus
Department: Coordinator, Asia-Pacific Initiatives
Contact: (617) 253-2932, lthurow@mit.edu
Expertise: $100K Entrepreneurship competition; Applied economics; Asia; China; Climate change; Defense, military; Deflation; E-commerce; Healthcare; High technology companies; Hong Kong; Human resource management; Industrial economics; Inflation; Interest rates; Japan; Korea; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Microsoft; Monetary policy; National security; Oil; Outsourcing; Pakistan; Russia; Semiconductors; Singapore; South Korea; Southeast Asia; Sustainability; Unemployment
Simon Johnson warns in a new book that a "new financial oligarchy" threatens not only the nation's economy, but its political core. In 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, Johnson, says the book provides "the back story" for the 2008 financial crisis "and for all the issues being raised now around financial reform.
The U.S. stock market is now at new highs. So why are average Americans continuing to struggle and not feeling this prosperity? What causes this apparent disconnect between market highs and citizen well-being? As the expression goes, stocks are climbing a wall of worry. And by our estimates, despite economic malaise, the stock market hasn’t peaked, and we’re still on the way up. Here are some reasons why: The market largely reacts early in the cycle (and just remember: We are largely no higher than we were at the 2000 peak); We’re stimulating the market fiscally with low interest rates for some time to come; Businesses have cleaned up their balance sheets after the financial crisis and are now liquid (in fact many are sitting on huge cash reserves); and Companies are finding ways to achieve higher earnings despite a difficult political and regulatory environment. In fact, strong availability of … Read More »The post Climbing a Wall of Worry — John DeTore appeared first on MIT Sloan Experts.
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