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Ronald Coase was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. As important as his theoretical contributions was the simple but profound idea of moving away from "blackboard economics" to look at real-world problems and how institutions actually work. This is an insight that inf...

  By Kirby Bryan For over a decade, the World Bank Group's Doing Business index has served as quintessential tool for determining how well a country's institutional infrastructure is suited to the promotion of a productive business environment. But something was missing. Businesses and ...

Loss of profits and market share, diminishing brand reputation, and costly fines threaten companies that do not meet the international standards of ethics. As evident in the wake of scandals involving top brands such as Apple and Nike for example, today's consumers are becoming better educated about...

  What I love best about the Global Entrepreneurship Congress, most recently the GEC 2015 in Milan, is the diversity of approaches, organizations, and countries that I encounter under the big tent. At this carnival of entrepreneurship, one meets founders and policymakers, leaders from inno...

What are the drivers of and institutional responses to corruption? Are current anti-corruption instruments used domestically and internationally effective? These were the key questions of a fascinating day-long event organized last week in Washington, DC by the George Washington School of Law and ...

Fostering a strong competitive market requires the private and public sectors to understand each other's needs. In any country, entrepreneurs look for ways to make their businesses successful while the federal and local governments deliberate how they can boost the economy by providing loans for b...