Neil Gregory, Chief Strategy Officer for Investment Operations at the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, has written “Financing Small and Medium Enterprises – It’s about Demand as well as Supply.” The paper seeks to examine why so many small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) across the globe do not get external financing.  Mr. Gregory first [...]

On April 23rd, the Center concluded a six-part series of Georgetown on the Hill seminars on trade.  “Foreign Investment, Is it Good for America?” featured: J. Bradford Jensen, Professor, Georgetown University; Christine Bliss, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Services and Investment; Linda Andros, Legislative Counsel, United Steelworkers; Amb. John Veroneau, Partner, Covington LLP, former Deputy [...]

The Center is pleased to announce Robert Shapiro, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Coleman Bazelon have released “The Economic Implications of Restricting Spectrum Purchases in the Incentive Auctions.”  Center Executive Director John Mayo wrote the following forward to describe the study: The rapid spread and quick adoption of wireless broadband technology is transforming the way our economy [...]

In the past semester the Center has been partnering with areas across the MSB to host Business, Economics and Public Policy Seminars.  These seminars, designed to tease out policy implications of business related academic research, have addressed a wide variety of topics. On April 26th, together with the Accounting and Finance faculty, we hosted Robin [...]

This academic year the Center has hosted a series of trade policy discussions as part of the Georgetown on the Hill seminar series.  These seminars have been organized by Center Scholars Brad Jensen and Bob Vastine and proved to be very popular on Capitol Hill. The series began with an examination of jobs and the [...]