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Currency Manipulation Provisions Do Not Belong in Trade Agreements
Demands for provisions to stop currency manipulation by foreign governments have become central to the congress...
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SMEs and Public Equity Financing: A New Dataset of SME Boards in Emerging-Market and Developing Economies
In recent years, a number of stock exchanges in emerging-market and developing economies have established dedic...
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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and SME Exchanges
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in generating economic growth in the world’s econom...
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Why Housing Reform Still Matters
Eight years after the mortgage meltdown, America’s housing system remains broken, serving neither taxpayers nor...
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Access to Capital: How Small and Mid-size Businesses are Funding Their Future
Small and mid-size businesses are the backbone of the American economy, and access to capital is the fuel that ...
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For Whom Are We Building the American Dream? The Role of Subsidies in the Economics of Housing
Leaders from across the political spectrum articulate the virtues of homeownership. As expressed in the above q...
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Capital Markets in Developing Countries: The State of Play
Economists have repeatedly demonstrated a relationship between financial sector sophistication and economic gro...
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Rebuilding Housing Finance: Thoughts from California on Federal Reform
Both in the foreclosure crisis and in the recent recovery, California has represented a bellwether of the natio...
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Best-Performing Cities 2016
Which factors are determining the divergence in economic performance of metropolitan areas around the nation? W...
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2016 California Summit Review: An Action Plan for Growth and Innovation
The Milken Institute’s fourth annual California Summit provided an opportunity to assemble prominent state lead...
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Evaluation and Determinants of US Metro Economic Performance
The Milken Institute has published various reports evaluating urban performance. In addition to its flagship Be...
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Accelerating Workforce Housing Development Across California
California has long had a shortage of affordable housing, most notably along the coast, around universities and...
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Preparing California for the Future of Work: Creating Equity by Addressing the Access Gap
This report focuses on how the public and private sector workforce systems in California have adapted to techno...
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Examining Arizona’s Technology and Research Initiative Fund
In November 2000, voters passed Proposition 301 in the state of Arizona. The initiative not only approved a 0.6...
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Sam Hanigan
Sam Hanigan is a senior associate in the Milken Institute’s Center for Regional Economics and California Center. He focuses on issues con...
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Charlotte Kesteven
Charlotte Kesteven is a senior policy analyst at the Center for Regional Economics at the Milken Institute. Her research is centered on r...
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Aaron Melaas
Aaron Melaas is associate director of the Center for Regional Economics at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica, where he is responsible ...
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Recalibrating Workforce Development Across California
The COVID-19 crisis has had far-reaching consequences, including the upending of traditional work systems and t...
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State Technology and Science Index 2018
The State Technology and Science Index (STSI) measures states on their science and technology capabilities and ...
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Michael C.Y. Lin, PhD
Dr. Michael Cheng-Yi Lin is a Regional Economist within the Research Department at the Milken Institute. His current research focuses on ...