RESEARCH Business 2000 2001 2002 2003

TOPICS: Economy | Government | Illinois |

ECONOMY
Stocks: Did the seemingly investor-friendly decision to deregulate brokerage commissions lead to conflicts of interest among Wall Street analysts that, in turn, helped ruin investors caught in the technology-bubble stock market of 2000-2001? That is one of the questions examined in an article about the rise of Mary Meeker, Jack Grubman, Henry Blodget and other "super-star" stock analysts appearing in the University of Illinois Law Review. (10/29/03)

Industry: Six large companies have joined a program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that lets industry interact with students and faculty on engineering and business issues. (9/1/03)

Gambling: The best approach from both a social welfare and economic perspective is to recriminalize or substantially limit all types of legalized gambling activity, a scholar says. (6/1/03)

Gambling: Gambling has become socially acceptable chiefly because of its active government sponsorship as a way to finance public projects, two legal scholars argue. (5/1/03)

Gambling: The U.S. gambling industry is exporting technology and know-how to Asia and the Middle East, causing conditions that could threaten both U.S. and world security, a scholar says. (4/1/03)

State Economy: Even if the economy recovers from its malaise, Illinois’ finances will remain shaky for the foreseeable future as several revenue sources are used up, two economists predict. (2/1/03)

GOVERNMENT
Business Ethics: A legal scholar has called upon the U.S. Supreme Court to hold firms accountable for statements they make about their environmental and labor practices. (5/1/03)

Retirement Savings: Without government regulations, workers likely will continue to buy company stock, leaving them potentially exposed to heavy losses if the firm fails.(3/1/03)

The Disabled: Although there are many government programs focused on the elderly and the disabled, they rarely share resources and often compete with each other, an expert says. (3/1/03)

Insurance: Elderly or terminally ill people faced with high medical costs who sell their life-insurance policies to investors in return for lump-sum payments need protection. (3/1/03)

Facts and Figures: The popular statistical abstract published by the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at Illinois is, for the first time, available on the Web. (2/1/03)

Tax Reform: If double taxation is wrong, as President Bush said about the shareholder tax on corporate dividends, then multiple taxing of wages and salaries is wrong, too, an expert says.(2/1/03)

ILLINOIS
State Economy: Even if the economy recovers from its malaise, Illinois’ finances will remain shaky for the foreseeable future as several revenue sources are used up, two economists predict.(2/1/03)

Facts and Figures: The popular statistical abstract published by the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at Illinois is, for the first time, available on the Web. (2/1/03)