Defense of the Fed's New Interest-Rate Policy, which was published by The Wall Street Journal on January 6th, 2013, financial reporters Frederic S. Mishkin and Michael Woodford carefully craft a justification of the Federal Reserve's latest revision Continue Reading...
The philosophy behind Frank-Dodd is to minimize the risk to the taxpayer of trade in these instruments, but this is to be balanced against the needs of the industry. Arguably, however, there is no particular need for synthetic CDOs, so tight regulat Continue Reading...
They also will exacerbate the deficit and could compromise the economy. There is disagreement over which policy prescription is going to be more likely to damage the economy. The health of the U.S. economy, however, is subject to a lot of variables, Continue Reading...
Behavioral Finance Concept v. Efficient Market Hypothesis: For more than a century, the concept of efficient markets has been the subject of numerous academic researches and huge debates. An efficient market is described as a market with a large num Continue Reading...
Crash, 2008: A geopolitical setback for the West," author Roger Altman analyzed the series of events that led to the "Great Crash" that was the American economic crisis in 2008. In analyzing the causes of the Great Crash, Altman also looked at the o Continue Reading...
Cash Flow Analysis Discuss Cash Flow And Its Analysis Financial Leverage Financial leverage refers to the use of a company's assets and liabilities targeting to earn profits upon balancing the risks associated. Financial leverage follows the argum Continue Reading...
The distributor would as such be able to identify the new needs of the customers and the suppliers, and will be able to serve them in quick and efficient manner, by delivering results before the competition even becomes aware of the existence of the Continue Reading...
Ethics and Regulation in the Professional Asset Management Industry Asset management is an operation that involves the diligent management of the investor's funds in a professional way. The asset manager thus is an agent hired to do the job on accou Continue Reading...
Globalization on the U.S. Economy The Impact of Globalization on the United States Economy in the 1990's. Globalization, generally speaking, refers to the integration of the global economy (Hanson, 2001) as economic resources, especially the means Continue Reading...
City of Park Ridge, Illinois: Budget Analysis The budget for Park City, Illinois is complete with a table of contents, which identifies all pages by page number, and the page numbers are correct according to the table of contents. Included in the bu Continue Reading...
Political upheavals can work in a similar fashion, increasing the perceived risk of an investment without a direct corresponding increase in the potential rewards, as well as directly threatening the ability to transport goods, access and move capit Continue Reading...
Business Finance for PizzaPalace: Analyze and recommend optimal capital structure Assume you have just been hired as a business manager of PizzaPalace, a regional pizza restaurant chain. The company's EBIT was $50 million last year and is not expect Continue Reading...
brave world: Investment banking 2008 (B):KEL380) Why were proponents of deregulation so successful in the late 1990s? How much can we blame deregulation for the meltdown in the investment banking industry? And how could the government have foreseen Continue Reading...
FASB Accounting Rules Did FASB 157 Cause the Financial Crisis? Since the financial crisis began in February 2007, there has been an ongoing debate in the financial community over the causes of the crisis. One target that has come under fire for its Continue Reading...
However, it will depend upon the impact that rising prices will have on consumer spending and corporate balance sheets. Geopolitical tensions could have an impact upon the price of commodities most notably: oil and gold. As various uncertainties ar Continue Reading...
NPV This becomes more complicated when trying to determine the changes that would occur to the net present value of today's dollars, especially given the uncertainties involved with changes in the interest rate. On the one hand, the value of futur Continue Reading...
The third sets of factors that are driving international trade growth are the cultural ones that are the most criticized and discussed in the context of globalization. These factors include the rapid spread of westernized cultural values and purcha Continue Reading...
As they are interested in increasing economic growth at all costs, while ignoring the short- and long-term impacts that their actions could have on the population. This is evidence, of the validity of the criticisms leveled against: the World Bank, Continue Reading...
Part of the overall calculation of uncertainty according to RiskMetrics recommendations, however, should include a calculation of correlative uncertainty (Finger 2007). The rationale for including this specific uncertainty in calculations is that i Continue Reading...
Hypothesis Within the context of the current study, there are several proposed hypotheses. First, the study will aim to prove that the private equity market in Austria is underdeveloped. Second, this is caused primarily a cultural phenomenon based Continue Reading...
Economists call this 'moral hazard,' where individuals have an incentive to behave recklessly because they know they will not be punished for their mistakes" (Interview, Der Spiegel, 2009). The obvious response to such allegations is that the failu Continue Reading...
Other than the branch expansion there has been no significant change in their financial structuring. The future does not hold much along these lines as shown in the future projections. Other than conservatively adding lease financing as an option th Continue Reading...
Foreign Direct Investments in Russia The evolution of FDIs in Russia can be divided into three distinct time periods: 1996-1999, 1999-2002 and 2002-2006. Throughout the first period, foreign direct investments registered a steady growth from 0.65% Continue Reading...
Prices crashed. Without the speculative buyers, there were no buyers, and properties remain to this day unsold. Kindleberger bases his views on a pattern of irrationality. Market theory fails, he hypothesizes, because it is based on investor ration Continue Reading...
Predatory lenders look to stretch the debt-to-income ratio to a point where, it is not considered responsible lending (Smith 3). Another example of predatory practice is attaching a balloon payment to the loan. Balloon payments are typically seen in Continue Reading...
(Warnings to be ignored) The market for interest-rate change is another privileged playground. Banks just pay a low, short-term floating rate and get a high, fixed one. Most of the top 20 American banks receive at least 10% of their profits from th Continue Reading...
11th Grade Froggybottom Class The questions you asked me about have no easy answers. Philosophers, economists, revolutionaries, and social leaders have all been debating the answers for centuries, and as usual many of our politicians don't even kno Continue Reading...
Finance Any Asset Pricing Theory forms the basic foundation of finance theory, in that it deals with the value of any asset under unknown or uncertain circumstances. The relationship between an asset and its price is the mainstay of the asset pricin Continue Reading...
Capital If there is one universal attribute that applies to all investors, it is the undying thirst for higher returns. Venture capital (VC) is founded on this fundamental premise, as it has great potential to provide returns far in excess of conve Continue Reading...
Macroeconomics The current macroeconomic situation of the United States is generally positive. The major indicators -- GDP growth, unemployment, inflation and interest rates are all trending in the right direction, indicating the sort of stable econ Continue Reading...
Finance Managing exchange rate risk can be a daunting task for many international firms attempting to expand overseas, acquire new companies, or simply manage its cash flows. Globalization has created a dynamic environment in which competition can a Continue Reading...
Intra-Industry International Trade: Benefits and Costs Trade is brought about by specialization. People specialize in those goods and services that they can produce effectively, and since they cannot survive on only these, exchange their surplus pro Continue Reading...
Johnson Bank v. George Korbaken Company Johnson Bank v. George Korbakes Company Over the last several years, the role of the auditor has been continually evolving. This is because financial institutions are relying on the information they are provi Continue Reading...
Microsoft Corporation 2. Toyota Motor Corp. 3. The Coca-Cola Company The data in the Table 2 reveals the Coca Cola has recorded a decline in its stock price within the last 3 months making investors to record a loss within the last three months. Continue Reading...
Sustainability It appears there is much riding on the earth's future. Leadership of the next decades must be ready to deal with new challenges that have not been recorded in history. A major issue of this future will be the ability for society to su Continue Reading...
Market Society and the Public Sphere My journal text comes to illustrate the utmost significance of globalization viewed as the force molding and shaping the current world. It describes the multidimensional aspect of globalization that influences an Continue Reading...
Marxian critique of capitalism focuses on the private ownership and control of social means of production -- factories, farms, fisheries, forests, and their accumulated representations, financial capital. Capital is the product of the collective prod Continue Reading...
Banking Website This report is providing customers with ideas and insights about the financial industry. However, the writer should not be held accountable for the conclusions and recommendations that are made. Letter of Transmittal In this resea Continue Reading...
Consumption Consumerism Important in Contemporary Global Society The economies of the world today are subject to inflation and depression, and both are related to the market forces. Today it has become global. To ignore these market forces is not po Continue Reading...
Brain Drain in both Developed and Developing Economies: Brain drain defines as the personnel migration in the search of better standards of living and an expected quality of life, which includes accessible advanced technologies, better paid jobs an Continue Reading...
