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Darden University of Virginia (USA)
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Governments and Markets in the 21st Century
Murphy, DanielCase DARDEN-GEM-0187-EEconomicsAs Joseph Biden began his presidency in early 2021, he was faced with the enormous task of balancing his more centrist tendencies with the increasingly activist part of his coalition. More generally, he would need to understand the forces that contributed to subpar economic performance and to redirect government efforts to supporting a market economy that benefitted all Americans. To do so, he would need to understand the arguments for and agains...Starting at €8.20
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Suez and Veolia in Hot Water
Debaere, Peter; Agrawal, MinalCase DARDEN-GEM-0221-EEconomicsThe case, “Suez and Veolia in Hot Water,” takes the merger between Suez and Veolia, the two largest global water and waste multinationals, as a starting point and puts it in the context of the ongoing discussion in France (and elsewhere) about remunicipalizing utilities, especially water and wastewater. The broader background of the case narrative constitutes, on the one hand, the water infrastructure crisis in many advanced countries, and, on t...Starting at €8.20
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Deadly Wells in Bangladesh
Debaere, PeterCase DARDEN-GEM-0158EconomicsThis case allows instructors to lay out the challenges of providing universal access to safe drinking water in developing and emerging countries—one of the current UN development goals. This is not to say that all developing countries find themselves in a comparable predicament of widespread exposure to arsenic contamination—although the exposure is on a much larger scale than is often assumed. The implication is also not that there are no water ...Starting at €8.20
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Governments and Markets in the 21st Century
Murphy, DanielCase DARDEN-GEM-0187EconomicsAs Joseph Biden began his presidency in early 2021, he was faced with the enormous task of balancing his more centrist tendencies with the increasingly activist part of his coalition. More generally, he would need to understand the forces that contributed to subpar economic performance and to redirect government efforts to supporting a market economy that benefitted all Americans. To do so, he would need to understand the arguments for and agains...Starting at €8.20
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Light Rail in Denver?: The Private Sector and Infrastructure Development (A)
Murphy, Daniel; Gilbert, LeeCase DARDEN-GEM-0188EconomicsThis case follows Nwanneoma "Neena" Ngondai and her work on the proposed FasTracks prograStarting at €8.20
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Light Rail in Denver?: The Private Sector and Infrastructure Development (B)
Murphy, Daniel; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-GEM-0199EconomicsThis case, a follow-up to "Light Rail in Denver?: The Private Sector and Infrastructure Development (A)" (UVA-GEM-0188) revisits Nwanneoma "Neena" Ngondai as she reflects on the work of the Denver Regional Transportation District and what actually happened after the proposed expansion of Denver's public transit system.Starting at €5.74
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Ten Years After the Global Financial Crisis: A Pension Fund's Retrospective
Murphy, DanielCase DARDEN-GEM-0163-EEconomicsEbony Jones manages asset allocation for Colorado’s Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA). She is worried that some asset price measures are approaching levels observed prior to the Great Recession, and she is pondering whether she should shift PERA’s asset allocation toward cash and fixed-income investments as a precaution. To put the current market situation in perspective, she looks back at the causes and consequences of the Great Rece...Starting at €8.20
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Mexico: From Crisis to Reforms and from Reforms to Crisis
Saffie, FelipeCase DARDEN-GEM-0205-EEconomicsAs he prepares for a 2023 meeting of General Electric Corp. (GE), Vladimiro de la Mora, president of GE Mexico, weighs the potential benefits and risks of nearshoring production to the Mexican border. Along with major ports that accessed both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and a 2,000-mile frontier shared with the United States, Mexico has a long history of trade and cooperation with the United States, supported by trade agreements and low labor...Starting at €8.20
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Suez and Veolia in Hot Water
Debaere, Peter; Agrawal, MinalCase DARDEN-GEM-0221EconomicsThe case, “Suez and Veolia in Hot Water,” takes the merger between Suez and Veolia, the two largest global water and waste multinationals, as a starting point and puts it in the context of the ongoing discussion in France (and elsewhere) about remunicipalizing utilities, especially water and wastewater. The broader background of the case narrative constitutes, on the one hand, the water infrastructure crisis in many advanced countries, and, on t...Starting at €8.20
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Draghi's Commitment
Warnock, Francis E.Case DARDEN-GEM-0113-EEconomicsFully updated through end-2015, this case examines the eurozone from the perspective of core and periphery long-term rates. By 2010, the “Great Convergence” in eurozone long-term rates during the late 1990s had given way to the “Great Divergence” in which German long-term yields fell to record lows while Greek yields bounced between 20% and 40%. Periphery bond markets improved sharply in late summer 2012 after Draghi committed to do “whatever it ...Starting at €8.20