January 26, 2015?Pelagic Data and P.T. Bali Seafood International were awarded first prize January 23 in a challenge competition sponsored by Maximizing Agricultural Revenue through\r\nKnowledge Enterprise Development and Trade (MARKET), a project managed\r\nby Nathan Associates. The award was announced at … Read More

January 16, 2015?Reporting of so-called short trades, investments\r\nthat reward sellers when a share price falls, could be enhanced in the United\r\nStates without invading investor privacy, said finance professor Stephen E.\r\nChristophe, a consultant for Nathan Associates. The economy would benefit from\r\nsuch … Read More

December 30, 2014?Myanmar?s drive to advance national\r\ndevelopment through information and communications technology (ICT), an effort\r\nsupported by Nathan Associates Inc., received a significant boost in December\r\nwith formation of the U.S.-Myanmar Information Communications Technology\r\nCouncil. \r\n\r\n Cisco Systems Inc., Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co.,\r\nMicrosoft … Read More

December 19, 2014?Small businesses in India would receive\r\nsignificant boost from restructuring and better access to energy sources other\r\nthan fossil fuels and the power grid. \r\n\r\n The two recommendations are among several contained in a\r\nreport that Nathan Economic Consulting India Private … Read More

By James Wallar \r\n \r\n\r\n Malaysia will assume the chair of ASEAN in 2015, the year\r\nthe grouping has pledged to achieve the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).\r\nObservers should not expect a ?big bang? in November 2015 when ASEAN heads of\r\nstate declare … Read More

What do GDP and free agency in major league sports have in\r\ncommon? Both rank among the 85 most ?disruptive ideas? since 1929, according to\r\nBloomberg Businessweek magazine. \r\n\r\n Also, Robert R. Nathan played a role in both. \r\n\r\n GDP \r\n\r\n Nathan, … Read More

December 5, 2014?Antitrust specialist Jonathan B. Baker cautioned against accepting arguments that protecting monopolistic behavior can be good for innovation, and he described a fresh approach to testing those arguments. \r\n Baker, a former U.S. regulator and now professor at … Read More

Economists must heed their craft as well as science if they want to solve real-world problems, the noted development and globalization economist Dani Rodrick said. And by craftsmanship he means mastery of an “inventory” of models and applying the right … Read More

November 7, 2014?Judy Winegar Goans, an intellectual property specialist at Nathan\r\nAssociates, has completed a new edition of Intellectual\r\nProperty: Principles and Practice, an internationally focused guide to the\r\nintricacies of copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secrets for businesses,\r\nlegal professionals, and universities. \r\n\r\n … Read More

November 5, 2014?India?s competition authority is maturing, according to Ram Tamara, Jincy Elizabeth Francis, and Nandita Jain. In The Handbook of Competition Economics 2015, a publication of the Global Competition Review, the three economists describe how decisions by the Competition … Read More