From East to Mid-West: Boosting Chicago’s Economy through Foreign Investment
The Chicago metro area has consistently ranked among the world’s leading economic centers, but new data indicate that the Windy City is beginning to fall behind its global peers. A new study sponsored...
View ArticleUnderstanding ‘Home Bias’ in the Global Stock Market
Information asymmetries underlie stock price movements in financial markets when private information about a company becomes available to a set of outside investors. However, even with access to the...
View ArticleThe Politics of Economic Growth and Stability
In 2014, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) declared Niger the state with the lowest Human Development Index (HDI), a comparative measure that takes into account the quality of education and...
View ArticleThe Strategy Behind China’s Rising Influence in Latin America
In January 2015, leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), a 33-country bloc, gathered in Beijing to participate in the first ever China-CELAC Forum. During the forum,...
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