Entrepreneurial growth - IPO as a means to finance growth
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
The decision to go public is often described as the most important milestone for a growing company. This process is not a stage that every company will try to reach, because in Europe particularly, the going public process is more an exception than the rule, and it's the decision of the company....
International negotiation and diplomacy
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Nowadays the phenomenon of globalization is in our everyday life. International relations between countries or international decisions concerning politics and business are the result of international negotiation. Negotiation is the pursuit of an understanding that is focused on material interests...
The role of WTO in the process of globalization
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
1947 - After a war that ravaged the world, the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) opened the door to the internationalization of markets: lower tariffs, dumping and fight against the quota, while a series of measures were taken to move towards greater economic liberalism. 1994 -...
Economic stimulus packages and bail outs
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
One of the largest and most frightening problems associated with the economic stimulus packages and the bail outs is the idea that the government is simply ignoring the powers and limits the Constitution applies to it. This can be a frightening scenario because the Constitution was put into place...
Why Women are losing ground on Wall Street?
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
In 2007, 1.2 billion women were working worldwide. It was 200 million or 18.4 percent higher compared to ten years. But the number of unemployed women also grew during the same period, rising from 70.2 to 81.6 million, and in 2007, with an unemployment rate of 6.4 percent, women continued to have...
The negative effects of the globalization process on the least developed countries
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
The globalization process began thirty years ago with the borders opening promoted by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now called World Trade Organization). In spite of the fact that 32 of the 50 LDC are members of the WTO, their influence is not as important as the United-State's and...
Assessing the impact of oil on the Norwegian economy
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
Describing Norway as a wealthy nation almost comes close to using a truism. In terms of Gross Domestic Product per capita, Norway was the 19th richest country in the world in the seventies, and is now ranked second among worldwide, just after Luxembourg. (Halvorsen & Sterno 2008 :28). The picture...
International portfolio's diversification and stock markets volatility
Essay - 20 pages - Economy general
The current paper aims at studying the volatility of thirteen stock markets returns (mature and emerging) by means of ARCH models in order to see its effects on the potential gains of international diversification. Then, we identify the effects of the volatility's temporal variation on the...
Which extension is possible for Europe and and with what consequences? - published: 12/09/2011
Thesis - 18 pages - Economy general
"A day will come when all the nations of the continent will merge strictly in a superior unity and will constitute the European brotherhood" it will have been necessary more than a century so that this premonitory speech of Victor Hugo pronounced in 1849, pass from utopia to the reality. The...
Which extension is possible for Europe and and with what consequences?
Essay - 18 pages - Economy general
"A day will come when all the nations of the continent will merge strictly in a superior unity and will constitute the European brotherhood" it will have been necessary more than a century so that this premonitory speech of Victor Hugo pronounced in 1849, pass from utopia to the reality. The...
Impact on export during the recent financial crisis
Essay - 25 pages - Economy general
The paper describes the export situation during the recent financial crisis. Since this topic is very large, it was impossible for us to cover all of its multiple aspects and we decided only to highlight a small part of it. We confine our analysis by comparing two different types of countries;...
Anti-dumping in developing countries
Essay - 22 pages - Economy general
In most countries of the world, trade policy regimes have moved from protectionism to more outward and liberal trade regimes in the last two decades: tariffs and quotas have been reduced. A work by M. Zanardi and M. Moore (2008) shows that adopting a declining applied tariffs increase the use of...
Economic partnership agreements
Essay - 38 pages - Economy general
The developing countries are negotiating preferential trade agreements with the European Union since always. This paper will explain the different treaties which have been put in place along the way between 1957 and now. Since it would be too long to describe the situation implying all the ACP...
The Informal Economy in Eastern Africa - Definitions, Impact and Challenges
Essay - 20 pages - Economy general
The first studies concerning the informal sector were conducted back in the 1970s. It was first considered as a marginal phenomenon, comprising activities not totally distinct from the formal sector. Since then, more institutions showed interest in this very specific part of the economy and...
Optimum Currency Areas and the Euro-Zone: An Analysis of how the Euro-Zone can become an Optimum Currency Area
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
In the following paper, we make use of one of the chapters of our textbook, which focuses on Optimum Currency Areas in relation to Europe. After perusing the information thus provided, we found related articles that would provide us with significant information that would allow us to compile an...
John Kennith Galbraith: The Last of the Institutionalists
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
John Kenneth Galbraith is a very radical economist whose biggest impact took place during the 1950s as the rebound of the Second World War left the United States penniless. Born in Canada but practices in the U.S., John Kenneth Galbraith is one of the most influential economists the United Sates...
Globalization and its impact: Case of Africa
Case study - 11 pages - Economy general
As defined by the Merriam-Webster English language dictionary, globalization is “the tendency of investment funds and businesses to move beyond domestic and national markets to other markets around the globe and thereby increase the inter-connectivity of different markets.”...
The gambling market in France
Sectorial analysis - 2 pages - Economy general
Our studies deal with the gambling market in France. This market is really interesting because French population spend in average seventy-two millions Euros by day. This sector has increased year after year even during the crisis. Eight years ago the total expenditure of the French was...
Economic Unrest in France: A Twentieth-Century analysis
Thesis - 10 pages - Economy general
The French Revolution of 1789 is perhaps one of the most well-known and significant revolutions in modern history. The Revolution was not only influential in its establishment of a new regime in France, but, to quote Scott W. Haine, “Not only did the French Revolution produce modern...
Economic reform in China and Russia: A Comparison
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
When economic reforms first began in China and Russia, regime stability, when classified as a product of political legitimacy, has, overall, seen only marginal change. Though they are now classified as illiberal democracies, and have opened up economically—China more so than Russia —...
Cost realism analysis
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
Cost realism analysis is the process of evaluating the methodology by the offeror to estimate the proposed cost and is done by using information other than cost or pricing data (Cole, 2001). This technique is useful in selecting the offeror that best fits the awards of the contract. It is done...
Business Plan of Bullea
Business plan - 12 pages - Economy general
Bullea is a scuba diving center based close to Marseille in Carry le Rouet. This scuba diving center will offer its future customers dives in beautiful locales in the Mediterranean Sea with the provision of validating their PADI, FFESSM and CMAS certifications. Moreover, we will provide...
Monetary Policy: Efficient Markets Hypothesis
Case study - 15 pages - Economy general
The efficient markets hypothesis does not constitute a good approximation to reality, and is often violated to a substantial degree in financial markets. The efficient markets hypothesis states that the price of every stock equals the value of the stock, so no stock is a better buy than any...
India's impact on the world economy - publié le 06/06/2011
Thesis - 8 pages - Economy general
The emergence of China and India as major economic players has had an important impact on the last 20 years of globalization, and it is now leading to important structural changes in the balance of power between countries by challenging the domination of the Triad: The United States, the European...
Insider Trading (le délit d'initié)
Worksheets - 2 pages - Economy general
Insider Trading: Should it be legalized or remain illegal? It is important first and foremost to define the term insider trading. Insider trading is the trade of a corporation's stock or other securities likes bonds or stock options based on material information (information which would be...
State Treasury: The guardian of public funds
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
The birth of State Treasury facilitated the creation of better conditions and possibilities for the organization of cash register execution accountancy of consolidated general budget components, especially regarding the collecting incomes, a better control on payments and also to increase...
South Korea: An Electronics Industry - publié le 27/04/2011
Thesis - 6 pages - Economy general
On what competitive advantages did South Korea lean to build a successful model of economic development? What factors can make South Korea particularly attractive as a market and as a base for value-added activities? After the war which led to the division of the peninsula and Korea in 1953,...
ECB vs FED
Text commentary - 3 pages - Economy general
This article is dealing with the monetary policy to adopt by the European Central Bank, especially the one concerning the interest rate which is a very important one, for the upcoming months. The ECB's president, Mr Trichet, is explaining why the organism wants to keep a lower interest rate...
Globalization, Economic Growth and Social Acceptance: The Case for the Olympics in China
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
In 2008, China was poised upon the brink of world domination. Set to host the Summer Olympic Games in its capital Beijing, China would come off from this two week-long event as a victorious host and dominant world power, or as a failed, backward, socially regressive society, still ill prepared...
Proposals to face the Euro crisis - publié le 20/03/2011
Thesis - 4 pages - Economy general
During a certain period, the funny abbreviation “PIIGS” was to be found everywhere in the news; this referred to Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, the five European “sick men”, endangering the survival of the Eurozone itself. While their situation still remains...
