Ingo Böbel

Current Research - General

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IUM-MBA is ranked number 42 worldwide in 2009!! See THE ECONOMIST's "WHICH MBA" ranking:

http://www.economist.com/business-education/whichmba/

2009 Nobel Prize in Economics

Oliver Willamson and Elinor Ostrom will share the sum of 1.4 million dollars or 10 million Swedish kronor as they have been jointly honored as the recipient of 2009 Nobel Prize in the field of Economics. The Nobel Prize Committee has honored the two economists of the United States for their outstanding achievement in their respective fields.

In a speech, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, stated that Elinor Ostrom has given the demonstration on the ways by which the associations can make use of the common property. Referring to Oliver Willamson’s works, the Academy stated he has, “developed a theory where business firms serve as structures for conflict resolution.” Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson will now share the stand with other world famous economists who had received the Nobel Prize in the past years. Oliver E. Williamson was a professor at California Berkley University. The other recipient of the same award Elinor Ostrom is a professor of Indiana University.

Current Research Interests:

1. Microeconomics of Competitiveness

- For 2010: BOOK (in preparation): "GLOBAL ECONOMIC STRATEGY AND COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS - Guidelines for (future) Corporate Leaders"

Lecture- and Student-Project-Improvement Tool, IUM Monaco, 2009

- Project: "MONACO ECONOMIC STRATEGY 2029"

2. HEALTH CARE/VALUE BASED HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

NEW PAPER 2009: (together with A. Martis):

"VALUE CREATION IN HEALTH CARE: THE CASE OF THE PRINCESSE GRACE HOSPITAL (CHPG) MONACO", IUM - Draft, Monaco July 2009

3. Analysis of basic macroeconomic principles that can help to achieve the Millenium Development Goals targets in 2015 in order to reduce poverty in Africa

Publication: See my paper on Poverty in Africa:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=737423 (published in Bharti Thakar (ed.), Global Poverty-Eradication Strategies, Hyderabad: The Icfai University Press, 2007, pp. 126-149).

Does freer trade help the poor? http://www.economist.com/finance/economicsfocus/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11453701

List of excellent poverty-related readings:

1. Where the Line is Drawn. A Rejoinder to Ravallion

Thomas Pogge. One Pager # 69. October 2008.

Click here: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager69.pdf

2. What is poverty? Good Question

Click here: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager26.pdf

3. What is poverty? Concepts and measures

Click here: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCPovertyInFocus9.pdf

4. What is Poverty?

Click here: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager22.pdf

5. Ending world poverty: is the debate settled?

Click here: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager12.pdf

6. Global Poverty Reassessed: A Reply to Reddy

Click here: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager66.pdf

7. The New Global Poverty Estimates – Digging Deeper into a Hole

Click here: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager65.pdf

8. Headcount Poverty Comparisons

Click here: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager18.pdf

9. Poverty in the City

Click here: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCPovertyInFocus7.pdf

10. Leaky Bucket

Click here: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCOnePager15.pdf

Printed pages graphic. Research Related Readings and Links:

1. Poverty, Growth, Standards of Living, etc.:

HDI 2009:

http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=14582820

WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2009: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2009/Resources/4231006-1225840759068/WDR09_01_Overviewweb.pdf

See the latest "Growth Report" (M. Spence) 2008:

http://www.growthcommission.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=169

Washington Consensus: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidtrade/issues/washington.html

One of the best sources on Microfinance and Economics: Beatriz Armendáriz (Lecturer in Economics at Harvard University) and Jonathan Morduch (Professor of Public Policy and Economics at New York University): http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Microfinance-Beatriz-Armend%C3%A1riz/dp/product-description/0262012162

General news on Africa (on a daily basis): http://allafrica.com/

On poverty read Henry George: http://www.schalkenbach.org/library/george.henry/ppintro.html

Excellent new books (highly recommended):

How Rich Countries Got Rich...and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor by Erik S. Reinert

Constable & Robinson, 2007, £25, 320 pages http://www.amazon.com/How-Rich-Countries-Poor-Stay/dp/1845293266

Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World by Ha-Joon Chang

Random House, 2007, £18.99, 288 pages http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Samaritans-Nations-Policies-Developing/dp/190521135X

For everyone interested in African Country Reports see the "AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN": http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/arbp/44/6 and the "JOURNAL OF AFRICAN ECONOMIES" http://jae.oxfordjournals.org/

Classics:

M. Yunnus: http://www.amazon.com/Banker-Poor-Micro-Lending-Against-Poverty/dp/1586481983/ref=pd_sim_b_4/104-6408281-7740709

J. D. Sachs: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0143036580/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4829205-8008647#reader-link

P. Collier: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195311450/marginalrevol-20

K. J. Arrow's book review of A. Sen: Poverty and Famines: http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/collier/SocPolWS03/arrow_on_sen.pdf

J. E. Stiglitz: http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/spring03/032439excerpt.htm

Why growth matters (W. Easterly): http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8978&mode=toc

2. Links on PROPERTY RIGHTS, Instutional Economics, etc.: http://www.msu.edu/user/schmid/links.htm

3. Microeconomics of Competitiveness

For more information see: Professor Michael E. Porter's "Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness" at http://www.isc.hbs.edu/moc.htm

Read what Edmund Phelps has to say: http://www.gmfus.org/publications/article.cfm?id=307

From the Brookings Institution: Boosting Productivity, Innovation, and Growth through a National Innovation Foundation [pdf]