Michael Hart, Professor of International Affairs in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, visited Texas A&M University Friday, October 22, 1999. He spoke to faculty, MBA and Ph.D students at Mays and the Bush School of Government and Public Service. His topic was "Is the United States Ready to Open Its Markets to Canada?"
The Honorable Jon Swanson, Consul General of Canada, Canadian Consulate General Dallas, Texas presented the opening address at a seminar "Building Canada-U.S. Trade and Investment Ties: Economic and Political Perspectives" which was presented by the Center for International Business Studies in Dallas on October 25, 1999. Four topics were discussed; "Western Hemisphere Cooperation and Conflict: Retrospect and Prospect," "Political Currents in Canada and the U.S. Implications for Canada-U.S. Economics Relations," "Banking, Finance, and Cross-Border Investment Issues: How Much Economic Integration When?," and Canadian Air Services: Global and Continental Perspectives."
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Dr. S. Kerry Cooper, Center for International Business Studies: Bilateral Trade Relationships Between Canada and the Southwestern United States. Texas A&M University, College Station.
Dr. Lorraine Eden, Management Department and the George Bush School: New Directions in Transfer Pricing Regulation in North America, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Drs. Tina Dacin, Lorraine Eden, and W. P. Wan, (Management Department): Standards Across Borders: Adoption of the Arm's Length Standard in North America, 1917-97 presented at the ACSUS Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota in November 1997; and M. T. Dacin and C. Oliver, The Legitimacy of Strategic Alliances: An' Institutional Perspective.
Dr. Lorraine Eden (Management Department): A book, entitled Taxing Multinationals: Transfer Pricing and Corporate Income Taxation in North America (University of Toronto Press, 1998); "Deep Integration: Tax Harmonization and Investment Policies in North America," in Market Access After the Uruguay Round: Investment and Competition Perspectives, edited by Pierce Suave and Daniel Schwanen, Toronto: C. D. Howe Institute 1996: Made in America? The Auto Industry in the 1990s, The International Executive, XXXVIII, No. 4 (July/August 1996):501-541; and with M.A. Molot, The Emerging North American Investment Regime, Transnational Corporations, V(3) December 1996:61-98.
Drs. Javier Gimeno (Management Department) and Robert E. Hoskisson: A new paper on joint ventures in Latin America, scheduled to be published in Selected Papers of the 1995 Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference for publisher John Wiley and Sons that should be of interest to Canadian and U.S. investors. It is entitled "Competing to Cooperate: Antecedents of Follow the Leader" Behavior in U.S. Joint Ventures in Latin America and will appear in Strategic Discovery: Competing in New Arenas, edited by Howard Thomas and Don O'Neal.
Dr. Michael Hitt (Management Department): A new book chapter on International Entrepreneurship, 1996, co-authored with Barbara Bartkus,apperars in Advances in' Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence, and Growth, edited by J. A. Katz and R.H. Brockhaus, and currently in production at JAI Press. More >>>