Projects and Programs

• Commercializing Innovation
  The Project on Commercializing Innovation studies the law, economics, and politics of innovation, focusing on entrepreneurship, corporate governance, banking, finance, economic development, intellectual property, antitrust, bankruptcy, and related areas.
  
  
• CREDO
  CREDO was established in 1999 to improve the body of empirical evidence about education reform and student performance at the primary and secondary levels.
  
  
• Global Markets Working Group
  The Working Group on Global Markets and Economic Policy brings together a team of experts on economic and financial policy to study key developments in the U.S. and global economies, examine their interactions, and develop specific policy proposals.
  
  
• The Russian Economy
  The Russian Economy site provides scholarly discussion and analysis of Russia’s economy in global perspective.
  
  
• Iran Democracy Project
  The Iran Democracy Project seeks to understand the process and prospects for democracy in Iran and the Middle East. Its goal is to help the West understand the complexities of the Muslim world and possible trajectories for transitions to democracy and free markets in the Middle East.
  
  
• Soviet Archives Research Project
  This project brings together historians, economists, and political scientists to study the records of the Soviet state and party located in the Hoover Archives. The goal is to understand the workings of Soviet totalitarianism by studying the world's best documented dictatorship.