China Looks West: What Is at Stake in Beijing’s “New Silk Road” Project

Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett and Wu Bingbing Not even two years into what will almost certainly be a ten-year tenure as China’s president, Xi...

Transformation of Financial Services in Northeast Asian Banks: An Unexpected, but Pleasant, Cultural Surprise

By Jung Kee Hong and You-il Lee Below Dr. Jung Kee Hong and Dr. You-il Lee explore the new emergence of financial market trends shown...

Cheap and Clean: Attitudes to Energy in a USA Concerned with Climate Change

By Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky In light of the recent agreement between the US and China to cut greenhouse gas emissions, US climate policy...

Putin’s Russia: An Exemplary Case of Hyper-Extractive State

By Alexander Etkind Due to Russia’s geographic scale and military might, it amplifies typical problems of many petrostates from Venezuela to Nigeria to Iran....

Natural Disasters, Bank Damages, and Firm Activities

By Kaoru Hosono and Daisuke Miyakawa Below Kaoru Hosono and Daisuke Miyakawa examine the impacts of financial shocks arising from two earthquakes in

How Asia Works: Finance – The Merits of A Short Leash

By Joe Studwell Deregulating finance for short-term gains may work in developed Western economies, and even then only at times, but premature deregulation has wreaked...

360 Degrees of Leadership

Interview with Deborah Winslow Nutter In today’s increasingly interconnected world, the lines dividing business, politics, security, trade and finance are becoming ever more blurred....

Dubai Investments Park: Setting New Benchmarks in Sustainability

Dubai Investments Park DIP, the largest integrated commercial, industrial and residential community in the Middle East

Putting Executive Pay in Context

By David De Cremer Before the financial crisis executive pay in the finance sector had skyrocketed; bonuses were no longer given to reward hard and...

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China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth

By Danny Leipziger China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives? China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...

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