Comparison between the economic cycles and the growth rates in the USA and France
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
The business cycle is a constant in all the world economies since the Industrial Revolution occurred. By “business cycle”, we mean the fluctuations of the growth rate of the economy, which always works on the “Peak - Recession - Trough - Recovery” scheme. The main cycle is the...
Globalisation
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
« Globalisation » is a word that comes up much more often than others in debate topics. For some, nothing better than globalization (and the liberalizing process that comes with it) could happen to us. On the other side, globalisation's detractors hold it responsible for a great number of the...
How can the change in demand following an increase in the price of goods can be broken into a substitution effect and an income effect?
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
We expect people to change their consuming behaviour when the price of a good change, but on what is this change going to be based on? Preferences are determined by the tastes of a person, so they do not depend on the person's real income. If the price of a good changes, the person will make a...
Development in Senegal: A difficult development despite numerous assets
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
Presently, Senegal is one of the most important economies in Western Africa and, after the political issues in Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria, one of the few countries which can reach the goals of the UN Millennium project in 2015. Nevertheless, we have here the example of a long-term low economic...
The employers' organisations in Britain: The case of the CBI
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
I decided to speak about employers' organisations in Britain because of a personal and very simple interrogation: I was actually wondering what the equivalent of the French MEDEF in Britain was. At first sight, I discovered quickly that this equivalent is the CBI, The Confederation of British...
How 9/11 was used as a pretext to the mass wave of layoffs following the attacks
Essay - 22 pages - Economy general
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the American population had its eyes fixed on Wall Street with fears that after such an attack, the world's economic superpower might not recover. Stock exchange shares were expected to undergo a sharp drop, the airline industry was ailing, as well as the...
Critically review the opportunities and challenges that the Internet had brought to a particular industrial sector
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
In 2006, the total e-commerce spending by customers and businesses would reach and even surpass five trillion Dollars according to e-marketer (2004). This astonishing number confirms that e-commerce and e-business must be taken into consideration now by firms in order to be competitive. Even if...
Legal and practical issues on on-line arbitration
Essay - 15 pages - Economy general
At times, the GATT conferences have become headlines on the general news, and are not only reserved to the specialised news, no one can be unaware that, exchanges tend to become global. This globalization concerns several fields: human first of all, there is no need anymore of a recession or a...
The French decline
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
France has the sixth largest economy in the world, it is the fourth biggest exporter of services and the third largest investor abroad. It is a permanent member of the UN security council and a declared nuclear power. In addition to that, France is a mainstay of the European Union and a...
Russian and French Economies
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
Russia is the biggest country in the world and is ranked 7th for its population with 143 million of inhabitants. The country is today one of the 10th most important economy in the world. In fact, Russia is situated at the 14th world rank concerning its total GDP for 2005 with approximately 763...
Discuss the main factors that determine product prices in the UK - publié le 28/02/2007
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
Predicting firms; behavior and reactions to events is central for current microeconomics. Economists have put forward many theories to analyze the behavior of firms, main decisions of economic interest related to outputs, investment, and technology and above all prices which are the object of...
Discuss the main factors that determine product prices in the UK
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
Predicting firms' behaviour and reactions to events is central for recent microeconomics. Economists have indeed put forward many theories to analyse firms' behaviour, main decisions of economic interest relate to outputs, investment, technology and above all prices which is the object of this...
Poverty in Russia
Essay - 15 pages - Economy general
Russia is the biggest country in the world and is also today one of the 10th most important economy in the world. In fact, Russia is situated at the 14th world rank concerning its total GDP for 2005 with approximately 763 000 million $, and at the 10th world rank concerning its PPP GDP for 2005...
Why is technology so difficult to implement and manage? - publié le 22/02/2007
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
No one can deny the impact of technology as a source of competitive advantage for a firm. The introduction of a new technology or the development and the commercialization of a new product or service are done with the aim of increasing business benefits. They allow costs savings, and improve the...
Why is technology so difficult to implement and manage?
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
No one can deny the impact of technology as a source of competitive advantage for a firm. The introduction of a new technology or the development and the commercialization of a new product/ service are due to increase business benefits: it allows costs savings, improves the productivity and the...
Globalisation in Russia: The challenge of the transition to the world economy
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
Fifteen years ago, the Soviet Union was a socialist authoritative country, tightly isolated from capitalist countries. Nowadays, its direct heir, Russia, is one of the quickest growing markets of the world that is strongly open on the global economy. During the 1990s, Russia underwent an...
Globalization in Russia: The challenge of the transition to the world economy
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
Fifteen years ago, the Soviet Union was a socialist authoritative country, tightly isolated from capitalist countries. Nowadays, its direct heir, Russia, is one of the most quickly growing markets of the world, strongly open on the global economy. During the 1990s, Russia underwent an...
The revival of the small business sector in the UK - publié le 30/01/2007
Essay - 10 pages - Economy general
According to data from Labour Market Trends in 1999, enterprises with fewer than 50 employees provide 45% of UK non-government employment and account for 38% of turnover, the employment figure includes the self-employed who employ no one and comprise 2.3 Million out of a total of 3.7 million of...
The Western growth systems: the role of innovations
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 - 1950) is one of the most well known economists of the XXth century, namely thanks to its work on innovations. One of the theories he develops is the one called creative destruction. So, in our study of the Western growth systems and the role of innovations in this...
Forgery and Counterfeiting
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
In the last few years, forgery has increased at a very rapid rate, and is now a world-wide industrial and cultural phenomenon. Forgery is not just limited to the luxury sector, but permeates the manufacture of all goods, so that all industries are concerned about the scourge. The issue of forgery...
To what extent is Richard Branson, the English Tycoon, a very influential person in the British political life? - publié le 23/01/2007
Essay - 11 pages - Economy general
Richard Branson holds the distinction of being Britain's best-known entrepreneur. This self-made man started his first company at the age of 17 and succeeded in building an empire from it. Worth £3 billion and believed to be the ninth-richest man in the UK, the 56-year-old founder of the...
To what extent is Richard Branson, the English Tycoon, a very influential person in the British political life?
Essay - 11 pages - Economy general
Richard Branson is Britain's best-known entrepreneur. This self-made man started his first company at the age of 17 and succeeded in building an empire. Worth £3 billion and believed to be the ninth-richest man in the UK, the 56-year-old founder of the Virgin empire inspired a generation of...
Study of the effects of privatization policies on the economy: The French example
Essay - 10 pages - Economy general
The public sector in France, which represents the firms that are controlled by the government, has been for a very long time a huge sector, with staff that represented in the 80s more than 10% of the whole labor market. Given the importance of this public sector in France, I am interested in...
Why Globalization Works by Martin Wolf
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
Martin Wolf, a British economist and a prominent journalist at the Financial Times, is ardent defenders of globalization, i.e., of global economic integration through free trade. His book, Why Globalization Works, aims to demonstrate that globalization makes the world better off. He feels that...
Why Globalization Works by Martin Wolf - publié le 02/01/2007
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
Martin Wolf, a British economist and prominent journalist at the Financial Times, is an ardent defender of globalization, i.e. of global economic integration through free trade. His book aims to demonstrate that globalization makes the world better off and that the problem is not that there is...
Short-run and long-run aggregate supply
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
One of the salient features of this document is to distinguish between the short-run and long-run aggregate supply curves and explain why they are important for the definition of a macroeconomic equilibrium. The Aggregate Demand model tries to examine the effects on the real GDP and price level...
Interest Rates
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
It is a well known that interest rates have a commensurable power to influence the economy as a vital tool of monetary policy that is used to control variables like investment, inflation, price stability and unemployment. Generally speaking, the interest rate is described as the cost of using...
Are Maquiladoras only an asset for the USA?
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
There are about 3320 kilometres of frontiers between Mexico and the United States of America: more than three times the length of France. All along the border were built, since the years 1960s, more than 3000 export assembly plants, primarily dedicated to the production of electronic equipment,...
Economy of Mexico
Essay - 17 pages - Economy general
From the 1940's until the 1960's there was a strong economic growth in Mexico. This strong economic performance proceeded into the 60's. Manufacturing was the country's dominant growth sector and attracted many foreign investors. Although there was a growth in Mexico, there was fiscal...
Development economics - Sharecropping - publié le 11/12/2006
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
In sharecropping contracts with cost sharing, why is the cost share borne by the tenant equal to the output share accruing to him? Sharecropping is an arrangement or system of farming, prevalent in many Less Developed Countries in which a tenant works on land which he does not own, giving the...
