Musacchio wore thin-soled shoes when she was a sprinter in high school without injury.

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Amanda Musacchio, 35, of Wheaton, Illinois, is a member of one of the biggest running list-servs in the country.

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In a new working paper, Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their Implications for Economic Performance, Musacchio and colleague Sergio G.

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Interestingly, in further research in Brazil, Musacchio and Lazzarini found that companies that received direct government investment, as opposed to subsidized loans, tended to have better performance overall, a phenomenon they attribute to increased accountability and oversight.

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