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 [...]

In a new Economic Policy Vignette, Luca Anderlini and Leonardo Felli compare the systematic risk in securities transactions to that of air travel.  “Layovers May Be Riskier than You Think” is described: Like flights, securities can be non‐stop (direct claims) or they can involve (sometimes many) intermediate stops (indirect claims). How should we measure the [...]

On March 26th, the Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP) hosted a Georgetown on the Hill event entitled “Europe/US Trade Deal: Promise and Reality” in the Rayburn House Office Building.  Led by CBPP Senior Industry Fellow, Bob Vastine, the panel included: John Hermann, Partner at Kelley, Drye & Warren, LLC and former Special Assistant to [...]

On Friday, April 12th we will host a Business, Economics and Public Policy Seminar co-sponsored with the Management Faculty.  The event, “Trust and Regulation: Lessons from Organizational Research” will feature Sim Sitkin of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.  The MSB’s Chris Long will also give remarks. Today’s society faces big problems and [...]

On March 20th, the Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP) at the McDonough School of Business hosted “Economic and Technological Drivers of Drug Shortages” by Marta Wosinska, Director of Economics Staff, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She presented her research on drug-shortages among sterile injectables. Shortages [...]

Lobbying for a Free Lunch Wednesday, March 27th 12:30 – 1:30 PM Hariri 350 The Center for Business and Public Policy is partnering with the Georgetown Business & Government Alliance in creating the Lunch Nuggets Series.  The goal of Lunch Nuggets is to engage students and faculty in informal, easy-to-attend, round-table discussions  of issues that [...]