Global trade relations: Opportunities and challenges for direct investment in Brazil
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Business strategy
Brazil is the largest and most populous country in Latin America, and the fifth largest in the world in both area and population. The country possesses a developed agriculture as well as mining and manufacturing resources, Brazil also has a large service sector forces like the banking sector,...
The role of private equity firms as an alternative investment model in the Middle East and globally
Tutorials/exercises - 27 pages - Finance
The global economic reality has witnessed a recent international increase in the private equity markets. This fact has brought up many concerns as to whether this will have a positive or negative outcome (Financial Services Authority, 2006). This document will present an overview of private...
How AG Edwards investment firm relates to economic theory
Thesis - 6 pages - Finance
Any business - financial, manufacturer, distributor or service provider - follows the standard assumption in microeconomic theory of the firm states that the primary goal of a firm in a market-based economy is to maximize economic profits (Varian, 1999). However, unlike a manufacturing company...
Conditions of the labor market that encourage foreign investments in Central and Eastern Europe
Thesis - 9 pages - International relations
Today, a well known economic phenomenon is that the foreign investments in the Central and Eastern Europe have been flooded, since 1989. Amongst many other economic data, we could include that in 2003, 29 billions dollars were invested by foreign companies. This figure is not easy to...
Nature and the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Ireland, China and India (2005)
Presentation - 31 pages - Finance
Through an efficient allocation of money because they are implemented. In countries where the education system and the facilities are well designed for LUCAS. DUNNING's OLI paradigm (ownership, location, internalization: The advantages of the firm become the country's ones. FDI can be considered...
Mexico's potential for investment
Market study - 10 pages - Economy general
Over the course of the twentieth century, Mexico has undergone notable changes. Although the country is currently mired is social inequality, research on the economic, political and social stability of the country seems to suggest that the country is on its way to quickly becoming a formidable...
Economic activity, investments and technological policy
Essay - 7 pages - Finance
The concept of competitiveness of the national economies and the viability of the national productive systems in the context of globalization focuses on the role of innovative competitive advantages, which are related to the technological know-how. The competitive advantages of low production...
The international legality of nationalization: An analysis of the bilateral investment treaty between Venezuela and Canada
Essay - 15 pages - International law
During the Cold War, the legality of a sovereign state nationalizing foreign property was often debated among the world community. The two principal contrasting theories were: (1) socialist theory and (2) western capitalist theory. States from the third world often followed a nationalization...
Investment Banking
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Investment banking activities make up the majority of bank's services. Investment bankers are responsible for generating customers, introduce them with the kind of services available by ascertaining their financial needs and manage their accounts. However, unlike typical banking...
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) theories: An overview of the main FDI theories
Essay - 6 pages - Finance
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) acquired an important role in the international economy after the Second World War. The increase of the volume of foreign direct investment was so sharp that economists considered FDI as a new stage of Capitalism after the classic Marxist theories of...
Strategic Financial Management - London Stock Exchange
Case study - 10 pages - Finance
This report examines the financial analysis of two companies on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) as listed companies, namely Unilever PLC and HSBC Holdings PLC. The objective is to examine their financial soundness, stability and chance of failure so that they fit into Penco's...
The Ethical Finance Between Paradigm and Paradox
Dissertation - 84 pages - Finance
Linked with morals, with deontology and right, ethics is a reflection towards the research of the Good, a moving concept by essence. What deserves, nowadays, such an imminent questioning on ethics? Because of the increased pressure of the governments, increasing awareness of the organizations...
Community Health Assessment
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The first category to discuss is the county's demographic or local population. The population of Mecklenburg County is 861,189. The male citizens are 421, 933, while the female citizens are 439, 256. The media age of this county is 33.7. The population under five years is 70, 176. The...
Financial Market and Sustainable / Green Finance
Dissertation - 18 pages - Finance
In April 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report focusing on the mitigation of climate change. The experts underline the emergency of a new way of life in order to limit global warming to 1,5°C. To respect the agreement taken during the COP 21, the IPCC proposes...
The Impact of the Barcelona Traction Case on Shareholder Protection under International Law or The Diplomatic Protection of Companies and Shareholders
Thesis - 27 pages - International law
This research paper has been written by Mr Éric J. CHICATE-LAURENT, a student at University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The Barcelona Traction judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of February 5th 1970, considerably shaped the protection of foreign investors. Indeed, this...
How to measure the value of a professional football player through a financial valuation model?
Dissertation - 8 pages - Sport marketing
The takeover of Newcastle United FC, 19th in the English Premier League, for 350 million euros by a Saudi public investment fund illustrates the attractiveness of football as a thriving and diverse industry. Indeed, the fund's liquidity is estimated at 400 billion dollars, making...
Private Equity and Wealth Management
Market study - 4 pages - Management
Investment listing in the stock market should be considered long-term in nature and involve a high degree of risk and uncertainty. According to Alison et al. (2015), there is a need for careful consideration of all the consent information set out in the prospectus, the risks that relate to...
Equity research report - Danone
Financial analysis - 6 pages - Finance
The purpose of this document is to present a detailed equity research on Danone group. First of all, we will present a brief investment summary of Danone, followed by an extensive and detailed valuation work on the company (based on DCF and multiples). We will see some of the KPIs related...
Foundations of Economics and Sociology Foundations of Economics
Course material - 25 pages - Economy general
It is within the multiple and different enterprises, which together define to a large extent a national economy, that the observation of economic and social facts is the most extensive and undoubtedly the most visible. The company is a reality that weaves its way through our daily lives because...
Heritage Management: How Can Finance Professionals Propose Wealth Management Strategies Adapted to the Needs of Their Clients?
Dissertation - 25 pages - Heritage and real estate
Wealth management is a hot topic that is of increasing interest to individual and professional investors. Indeed, faced with the complexity of the financial markets and the diversity of investment products, asset management has become a necessity for investors wishing to preserve and...
Financial Partners Capital Management LLC
Case study - 5 pages - Finance
Financial Partners Capital Management is an employee-owned Investment Company. The firm is listed as an Investment consultant and aims at providing discretionary investment management services to a different group of customers in the United States and other international...
The Wetherspoon Company
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
JD Wetherspoon is a national chain of public houses, bars and hotels across the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was founded in 1979 in Muswell Hill, North London. The document is a financial analysis based on the company. It answers several questions which include investment, profitability,...
Land grabbing in post-Soviet Eurasia: the world's largest agricultural land reserves at stake - Oane Visser & Max Spoor (2011)
Book review - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The redaction takes place during the beginning of a project led by Visser about land investment strategies and their effects, concerning food security and sovereignty, labour issues and rural development. Visser and Spoor being specialists of post-Soviet countries in their own discipline,...
Interpreting macroeconomic signals
Course material - 46 pages - Economy general
As an economist, what you need to forecast is not so much the end value of the economic indicators. Indeed, markets already have some believes and price in those expectations. What is important to forecast is what the markets are going to change their expectations and when this will occur. To be...
Specialisation
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Economy general
Trade and foreign direct investments driven by specialisation and comparative advantages are controversial and provide arguments against free trade and capital mobility. Modern production of many products are produced in value chains that involves many countries, depending on comparative...
Airport Expansion and Economic Sustainability
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
The transportation network of society depends heavily on airport infrastructure, which also presents serious environmental challenges. Massive investments are required, according to COVID-19, to prepare for handling passengers from all over the world and to update and rehabilitate the...
The United States in the Economy
Course material - 25 pages - International economy
Globalization is a contest content, it can have a negative view; responsible of outsourcing, massive unemployment (Europe), positive view; eliminate discrimination, global general culture, universalism. A complex reality, positive & negative sides. Is a process of interaction and integration...
How to conduct market research
Practical guide - 7 pages - Marketing theories
In 5 phases of marketing, market research is one of the tools that correspond to phase 1: knowing the market. It is about collecting reliable market information at times when strategic decisions have to be made, for example: before launching a new product or activity, before opening a new...
Strategy proposal for an MNC who wants to invest or expand in a specific country - New Group Renault strategic plan: "Drive the Future"
Market study - 7 pages - International economy
In this work, we analyze Renault's strategic plan for 2017-2022, called "Drive the Future" on three levels: the company's source of competitive advantage (section 1), the reasons for choosing the target of investment in emerging country, such as China (section 2) and finally the...
Chinese Multinational Companies' Innovation Strategies in France
Dissertation - 31 pages - Business strategy
China is changing its strategy. From the mass production of products at very low costs and quality, Chinese state is now orientating its economy in order to be able to capture a growing part of the added value and to change the international production process to its advantage. In terms of...
