Inflation targets scheme: General characteristics, theoretical foundations and ideal conditions for its adoption
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The regime of inflation targeting has emerged as a new attempt to discipline the management of money, explicit inflation targets will function as nominal anchor for the formation of inflation expectations and the fixing of prices and wages. This can effectively replace schemes based on targets...
The European financial crisis and the future of the euro
Essay - 3 pages - European union
Europe has suffered from the recent subprime financial crisis, which has spread through the stock markets in all developed market economies. This crisis will bring these countries to an economic downturn, which will perhaps, allow them to take stock, and hopefully help them avoid repeating the...
The Tobin Tax: relevance or utopia?
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
In 1972, when the world was plagued by monetary upheavals, the economist James Tobin submitted a proposal to tax currency transactions, which would enable governments to regain their independent macroeconomic policy, at a conference at Princeton University. The main objective of...
Pros and cons for the UK to join the Single currency
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
For many people, in favour of the EMU and the sceptics of EMU alike, the single currency points is inescapably part of the political union. Looking at past history, monetary unions linking independent states of dissimilar size and power (like that of Belgium and Luxembourg today) have not...
The functioning of the Central European Bank and the American Federal fund
Thesis - 3 pages - Economy general
The European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve: These are two institutions that operate the two most important monetary policies in the world: the euro and the dollar. An essential function of a Central Bank is to regulate the evolution of money supply and interest rates, but one...
The European System of Central Banks
Case study - 4 pages - Economy general
The European System of Central Banks (ESCB) is composed of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the National Central Banks (NCB's) of all 15 EU Member States. The "Eurosystem" is the term used to refer to the ECB and the NCBs of the Member States who have euro as their national currency. The...
The Yuan under the pressure of the International Community Should we revaluate the Yuan?
Essay - 65 pages - Economy general
In three decades, China has transformed from an economy based upon agriculture (low effective and auto centered) to an economy based upon mass industry and export. The wish of Xiaoping to open the country is completely reached (on an economy level) but his wish to develop China from the inside by...
International finance
Case study - 6 pages - Finance
When we study the international economy, like domestic activity, requires money and the same forces which lead to convergence on a single domestic money lead to convergence on a single domestic money lead the world to convergence on a limited number of international monies. Before World War I,...
The European Central Bank (ECB)
Essay - 14 pages - European union
The Eurosystem includes the national central bank (NCB) and the European central bank (ECB). All states that have central bank in the eurosystem are in the European Union and there are 27 member states. The countries which have not adopted the Euro but that are in the European central bank...
Inflationary goal models and interaction with the consumer - The Brazilian case
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The Central Bank, in order to achieve the inflation target, use the instruments of monetary policy at your disposal. The main one is the aggregate demand control via interest rates. Whenever there are inflationary pressures, interest rate of the economy increases. Consumption is...
Financing of the war (1914 - 1918)
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
The issue of funding does not arise at the beginning of a conflict, during a war,the people live on rations. Belligerents merely suspend the convertibility of their currencies into gold (except England where the pound is convertible), with the idea of restoring them when the war is over. It is...
Financial market
Case study - 12 pages - Finance
Recently, there are more and more financial analysts have dedicated their studies to the relationship and emerged trends between different financial markets such as studies of Dalkir (2009) and Savva (2009) on stock markets inner relationship, or relationship between bond markets and stock...
Critical analysis for the Brazilian case
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The Brazil felt a huge change in the economy after the Real Plan in 1994. The plan has changed the economic environment in Brazil to check the stability of the economy after a long period of high inflation. From this year on, we used two types of monetary policy: a fixed exchange...
The implications of the operations of the banking sector on money supply
Thesis - 8 pages - Finance
The UK banking sector plays a crucial role in determining not only the amount of money in circulation in the economy but also the form that it takes (e.g. fiat money or current/deposit account holdings available to be given by the banks as loans). These aspects of the monetary...
The Chinese banking system
Thesis - 5 pages - Finance
The Central Bank is the only monetary policy-making and policy-executing entity in the Republic of China. Its organization structure is split into two independent entities: The decision-making body and the decision-executing body. The decision-making body, which is more...
The emerging triad in the new global economy
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
Since 1980, the third technological revolution has been booming; a revolution based mainly on new information technologies and brand firmly established as a "new economy". With the help of these technologies, particularly the Internet, the information economy itself is now seen in the global...
The role of the TARGET system in the European financial integration
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
When Euro was introduced in 1999 as the European single currency, a large value payment system was also set up. The so-called Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer (TARGET) system was expected to be the basis of both financial integration and European Central Bank...
The impact of bank failures on the money stock during the inter-war period in the United States
Essay - 11 pages - Finance
In the following study the researcher attempt to analyze whether the monetary policy adopted by the Federal Reserve during the interwar period led to the Great Depression. The study would investigate through an extensive literature review by studying the perspectives of renowned...
Financial markets of India
Dissertation - 33 pages - Finance
Financial institutions, financial market and financial instruments are considered main components that are closely linked with each other, because financial institutions deals in financial instruments in the financial market. Financial transactions takes place in financial markets. Each and every...
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...
Human Resource Policies Influence on Performance of Medium Sized Manufacturing Firms
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Globalization has created a paradigm shift in the ways by which firms conduct their business. The convergence of world economies has minimized-and in some cases eliminated-both legislative and geographical barriers to international production and sale of goods and services. The flip-side of this...
John Major and the Single Currency
Internship report - 5 pages - European union
At a time of numerous issues about an Economic and Monetary Union between the European Countries, Britain, which was a powerful state in Europe, was led to consider the membership. Eventually, Britain joined the European Economic Community and the Economic and Monetary System but...
The impossible trinity dilemma
Case study - 8 pages - Management
A trade off exists between interest rate policy (monetary independence), exchange rate stability (ES) and financial integration. Change in one is necessarily associated with a corresponding change in a combination of the other two components. Any pair of goals can be achieved by...
European Union and Federalism
Essay - 4 pages - European union
In 1948, federalists formulated a project of United States of Europe at a Congress in La Haye. But they were defeated by unionists who wanted mere intergovernmental cooperation between European states. Nowadays, this continues to be a recurrent debate: is the European Union (EU) a federal state?...
The integration of Turkey in the EU
Essay - 11 pages - European union
Turkey has been an official candidate at the Helsinki summit of the European Council since December 10, 1999, in order to obtain the membership in the European Union. Negotiations began on October 3, 2005, and are expected to continue for at least several years. During the same time, the debate...
The worst economic crisis - Late 1970s to early 1980s
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The worst economic crisis that happened in the world history occurred between the late 1970s spreading over the years to early 1980s. The USA was one of the world economies that were greatly hit by the economic downturn. The debts escalated and savings went down in the American economy leading to...
Organ Transplant
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Medical science has developed vastly to the extent that organ transplants are a routine practice in various hospitals. Unfortunately, the present techniques of procuring human organs are not meeting the demand (Thomas, 2001). A new strategy, the commercialization of the organs for transplantation...
Ethical and Policy Factors in Care Coordination Transcript
Presentation - 3 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
First, we will examine the moral and regulatory implications of care coordination within the ANA (American Nurses Association). Then, we will examine how government policies affect healthcare accessibility, focusing on the American Nurses Association's advocacy efforts. We will also discuss...
U.S. Political Institutions and their Roles in the U.S. Foreign Policy
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
In 2017, Trump stated in the National Security Strategy of the United States of America that the US "seeks a Middle East that is not a haven or breeding ground for jihadist terrorists, not dominated by any power hostile to the United States, and that contributes to a stable global energy market."...
The process of regionalization in West Africa: CEDEAO
Thesis - 7 pages - Political science
'I was convinced that the political freedom would inevitably precede our economic advancement. In the same manner, I am convinced that the African Unit will be done and this common base will enable us to build our complete development”. This statement was written in 1957 by Kwame Krumah,...
