Global
By Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig
An edited version of the following text appeared as an op-ed in Financial Times, June 3, 2011.
Full text version appeared online in "Martin Wolf's Economists' Forum," FT.com, June 6, 2011.
Bankers on both sides of the Atlantic are lobbying furiously against...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—How should companies price goods that they ship between their own divisions correlated companies?
Internationally, that quandary confronts the producers of nearly half of all U.S. imported goods, a third of all U.S. exports, and a huge proportion of global...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—You might think that the head of state of a global power would be an unlikely individual to jump into a technical debate on accounting standards. Yet in 2003 French President Jacques Chirac did just that—taking an active role in voicing concern regarding the...
In three months a group trying to save a friend’s life used social networking tools to get over 24,000 South Asians to register for the National Marrow Donor Program. Their effort inspired Professor Jennifer Aaker to develop a course at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, The Power of Social...
Dividends Can Wait Until Banks Are Stronger
Text of Op-Ed Published in Financial Times
(View the text from the online version of Financial Times)
This appeared in print in the Financial Times on Jan. 20, 2011 under the title "Force Banks to Put America's Needs First"
Anat Admati
George G.C....
(View the text from the online version of Financial Times)
This appeared in the online Financial Times on Jan. 19, 2011 under the title "Dividends Can Wait Until Banks Are Stronger"
Anat Admati
George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
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STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Nike overhauled labor practices in its suppliers' overseas factories after it was targeted by activists campaigning against sweatshop conditions. Faced with criticism on many fronts, Wal-Mart embarked on a strategy to burnish its reputation and improve or...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—In a forthcoming book, Stanford Graduate School of Business finance expert Darrell Duffie goes behind the scenes to describe the financial network of incentives and financial contracts that lead to run-on-the-bank calamities during the financial crisis of 2007...
Influenza is an acute respiratory illness that spreads rapidly in seasonal epidemics. Annually influenza outbreaks result in 250,000 to 500,000 deaths around the globe. The World Health Organization reports that the costs of health care, lost days of work and education, and social disruption are...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Slums like those depicted in the popular film "Slumdog Millionaire" are complex communities with residents of different income levels, sometimes complex relations between ethnic groups, and systems of political patronage that interest Saumitra Jha, an...