risk and return for an investment portfolio that includes five asset categories: stocks, bonds, mutual funds, options, and precious metals. The purpose of diversified portfolio investment is to maximize portfolio expected return for a given level of Continue Reading...
A company may be profitable, but not growing, and vice versa, thus affecting leverage (Aggaral and Zhao, 2007). b. induce a negative relationship between firm value and leverage; conversely, if a firm is perceived with negative or flat growth, leve Continue Reading...
His lectures were a success as many eminent people of Edinburgh attended them and earned him a decent income. During the course of his lectures on English literature, Smith perhaps realized that his real vocation was economics. Hence, addition to E Continue Reading...
Demand Elasticity of Gasoline With gas prices across the country reaching record levels today, understanding the theory of demand elasticity of gasoline has assumed new importance for policymakers and consumers alike. To help understand what motiva Continue Reading...
Legal Perspective- New York's leading decisions Judge Hiram Grey in the Court of Appeals of New York adjudged the case of Lawrence v. Fox in the year 1859. The case was about Mr. Holly who lent $300 to Mr. Fox while stating that Holly owed $300 to Continue Reading...
Finance/Management Accounting The topic of finance and managerial accounting inclusively, are broad and incorporate a critical skill set in the modern day business student. Finance involves corporate and investment finance and managerial accounting Continue Reading...
Disequilibrium in almost any consumer good could cause inconvenience in the face of shortage, but a shortage of food is fatal. This is why governments protect their food supplies -- food markets might behave as any other consumer good but in the sen Continue Reading...
(Assefa and Degefa, ND, online at (http://www.hmbasha.net/Starbucks_Ethiopia.htm) Until, very recently there were many upscale coffee drinkers that assumed that the nations that hold a geographic monopoly on the coffee market (as coffee can be grow Continue Reading...
open-ended question. I don't know about organizational thinking -- individuals think; an organization has no brain. I do know, however, that strategy is set within organizations on the basis of all manner of internal and external variables. Several Continue Reading...
balanced federal budget. Justify your position for or against a balanced federal budget by explaining the gains and losses associated with your position. A balanced federal budget: Is it a good thing? Why is a federal budget deficit so bad? The bu Continue Reading...
S. economy, causing job losses that reach into the most technologically advanced industries in the manufacturing sector and affect every state, according to a January 11 press release by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission" (U.S. I Continue Reading...
International Trade Ever since Adam Smith demonstrated in The Wealth of Nations (1776) that individuals would be better off if they specialize, instead of trying to be economically self-sufficient, countries across the world have tried to apply the Continue Reading...
gender inequality greater at lower or higher educational levels? The authors of this paper are Evertsson, England, Mooi-Reci, Hermsen, de Bruijn, and Cotter. The paper was published by the Oxford University Press. It was found on Google Scholar. My Continue Reading...
Global Organizations -- IMF At the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, that created the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the Western capitalist nations sought to avoid a repetition of the events that led to the Great Depression and Second W Continue Reading...
Securities AnalysisSummary of the articleIn the article, Marc Pilkington examines the aspect of the dollar-based international monetary system. The fundamental conception of a theory of money ought to be the unit of account. The procedure whereby mon Continue Reading...
British Pound from 1965-2000 Around the world, the different countries have adopted different currencies for its uses. For instance, America uses the dollar, France uses the franc, Pakistan uses the rupee; and so forth. The type of currency situate Continue Reading...
Domestic and External Factors on African Macroeconomic Formulation Domestic and External Factors on African Macroeconomic Formulation Growth, productivity and employment are the most common economic variables to reduce extreme poverty and break po Continue Reading...
Paradox of Thrift: ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ talks about how the global economy has been acting in somewhat unpredictable ways within the last year. As national economies work more and more together (becoming more integrated), the economies of indivi Continue Reading...
agree with the belief that the Asian financial crisis was rooted in governmental interference. I also agree with the fact that the export-led model is no longer sustainable because international markets are saturated. The mandating and structuring o Continue Reading...
Government managing of the economic using fiscal policy typically amounts to spending more, as governments rarely use fiscal policy to slow an overheated economy, preferring to rely on the more effective monetary policy tools that central banks have Continue Reading...
Since the 1990s, criticism has mounted regarding the IMF's narrow construction of a 'one size fits all' economic policy. "Policies of privatization and deregulation may work better in developed countries in the West, but, maybe more difficult to im Continue Reading...
Capitalism Expansion Capitalism Can the Current Unprecedented Global Expansion of Capitalism be Sustained The global expansion of capitalism is an ongoing and uneven process. Discuss the similarities and differences between capitalism's historica Continue Reading...
But this does not mean it is fair to ignore how many fragile emerging economies, such as Iceland, Ireland, and Greece, have been suffering far worse turmoil than either the U.S. Or Canada today. Regarding the worries about the 'jobless recovery,' Wa Continue Reading...
Asset Management and Its Importance to the Transportation Sector The Definition of Asset Management In order to fully understand the rest of the discussion in this paper, one must first understand what asset management really is. Depending on the s Continue Reading...
Flat Tax over the Current Tax Policy The focus of this paper is to demonstrate effectiveness of flat tax over the current tax rate. Presently, the U.S. government employs progressively tax law as the current tax policy. Under the current tax polic Continue Reading...
value? exhorts the reader to pay closer attention to the drivers of value. He argues that bubbles typically occur when people in the financial community lose sight of value, and that this is something that should be guarded against. Tried and true e Continue Reading...
This allows the public to see where their taxes are being spent and the way it is addressing the short / long-term issues. (Ekstedt, 2012) (Holzer, 2011) Public choice and the political processes The public has a choice as to who they want to repr Continue Reading...
It may be most appropriate when there is a question of adding a new service or getting rid of a current service, but makes less sense for a department which is expected to continue in service. Incremental budgeting is a part of the rolling forecast Continue Reading...
Additionally, relocating the production facilities helped avoid any protectionist practices that the U.S. government might have applied in the case of Japanese car producers and exporters. On the other hand, relocation was doubled by strong austeri Continue Reading...
.....gas station owners have no control over the price that they pay for petroleum, and only limited control over what they will end up charging the customer. The base price for crude oil is set on the basis of global supply and demand. Local prices Continue Reading...
Finance in Public Administration One of the important components towards the successful delivery of services to the public is management of financial resources. Financial management in public administration basically entails budgeting as well as bud Continue Reading...
Although the research tools provided by the ISO 14001 framework are both qualitative and quantitative, this approach is consistent with the guidance provided by Neuman (2003) who points out that, "Both qualitative and quantitative research use sever Continue Reading...
This could pose additional threats (Brimacombe, Antunes and McIntyre, 2001). There are also two arguments which reveal the overstatement of the estimations. The first refers to the fact that the tax structures are taken as constants, when in fact m Continue Reading...
Finance-dominated proponents also maintain that boom economic periods generate a more varied divergence of valuations that fuel merger activity (Medlen 2007). In this regard, Medlen concludes that, "Taken collectively, these understandings may expla Continue Reading...
Jews Without Money and the Mumbai Slums Michael Gold's 1930 "Jews without Money" is a clear example that history does not only repeat itself but creates a certain pattern out of which human kind cannot be taken out and redirected to another path. Ta Continue Reading...
During recessions, when people fear losing their jobs, workers are less apt to spend money on things like clothes and entertainment, and horde their money. If they have lost their job, they try to spend as little money as possible. Americans are als Continue Reading...
Health Care Economics Monopsony power is defined as a situation where there is only a single buyer in the market (Investopedia, 2014). In a monopsony situation, all of the bargaining power rests with the buyer, such that the seller is a price taker, Continue Reading...
" Normality in this case, according to Goffman, represents a situation where everything appears contrary to what is about to take place, yet again with fewer fortunes of overturning the situation. Most of Goffman's first theoretical ideas are dramat Continue Reading...
raising minimum wage relates supply demand analysis. • If raise minimum wage businesses compensate raise workers? • According United States Department Labor, Minnesota's current minimum wage large employer's small employer's hour? • Continue Reading...
security behavior, a concept that touches on the behavior of consumers in regard to information technology systems is an important one to the global IT industry. Johnston and Warkentin (2010) for instance studied the influence of elements of fear ap Continue Reading...
