NOTE: Following Texas A&M University and Bush School of Government and Public Service guidelines for social distancing we are canceling all of our spring Mosbacher Institute events and working on rescheduling. Our March 26 event on “Boom or Bust” with Douglas Holtz-Eakin has been postponed until Wednesday, November 18, 2020. More information on this event […]
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UK Minister of State for International Trade Spoke to Bush School Students
On February 6, 2020, the Texas A&M Bush School of Government and Public Service Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy hosted a talk by Right Honorable Conor Burns MP, the current Minister of State for International Trade of the United Kingdom. He spoke to the Bush School about the importance of US-UK trade, […]
Harvard Economist Visits the Bush School to Discuss “Reimagining Globalization”
On February 6, 2020, the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy and the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs hosted the talk “Reimagining Globalization,” featuring Dr. Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Rodrik asserted that reimagining globalization has the potential to more widely distribute trade benefits […]
Bush School Student Presents Research on Home Buyouts after Natural Disasters at Texas Lyceum Meeting on Housing Policy
Michael Migaud, a second-year Bush School student in the Department of Public Service and Administration and a graduate assistant researcher for the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy, recently presented research on Texas home buyout programs after natural disasters at the Texas Lyceum’s PubCon conference in Waco, TX. The Texas Lyceum is a nonprofit, […]
An Updated Look at California’s Solar Rooftop Experience
Falling solar prices spurred the author of “California’s Solar Rooftop Experience: An Update” to revisit an earlier economic review on the merits of implementing residential rooftop solar systems in California. As before, his analysis includes not only the costs and benefits for the solar adopters but also for the electricity providers, the government, and the […]
Bush School Mosbacher Institute Remembers Namesake, Robert A. Mosbacher Sr. March 11, 1927 – January 24, 2010
Ten years ago today, the nation said goodbye to Robert A. Mosbacher Sr., accomplished Texas oilman and leader in public service. Today, the Mosbacher Institute remembers and honors the life of our namesake by sharing this memorial video. In 1948, at the age of twenty-one, Robert Mosbacher Sr. moved to Houston from his native New […]
Reimagining Globalization Event at the Bush School
International economist Dani Rodrik of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will speak at the Bush School of Government and Public Service about reconciling today’s negative globalization trends. Rodrik objects to public commentary that fixates on advancing or reversing globalization and maintains that our task is to redesign globalization so that it better […]
Will Retiring Coal-Fired Power Plants Lead to More Volatile Electricity Prices?
Low natural gas prices and environmental regulations have led many US utilities to retire their coal-fired power plants and build new natural gas generators. But, because coal prices tend to be more stable than natural gas prices, some worry that this trend will lead to more volatile electricity prices. Dr. Anastasia Shcherbakova, an applied economist […]
How US Imports from China Hurt both US and Mexican Workers
China’s growth over the past decades has profoundly influenced global trade. Several recent studies document how US imports from China adversely affect US workers. These studies suggest that Chinese imports are associated with lower wages and employment. What has been less appreciated, however, is that US imports from China also adversely affect Mexican workers. This […]
Head of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation Visits the Bush School
On October 30, 2019, David Bohigian, Head of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), and Robert Mosbacher, former Head of OPIC, discussed the role of the United States in supporting development and foreign policy goals through economic investment as a part of the Mosbacher Institute’s Conversations in Public Policy series. Mosbacher and Bohigian started by […]