Schneider-Legrand merger: was Bruxelles "Wrong or Right"to block the merger? - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 5 pages - Economy general
This document will answer the following questions: Why did the European Commission decide to block the French merger? What was the opinion of Henri Lachmann (the CEO of Schneider Electric) about the veto? Is it usual to meet with this kind of refusal in Europe? What are the arguments against...
Failures and benefits of free trade and the role of World Trade Organization (WTO) - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 10 pages - Economy general
The free flow of international trade gained significance after the Second World War when the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was tabled. The GATT was followed by the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. The WTO was formed to establish rules for international...
Trust online and the opinion of former consumers - publié le 29/09/2010
Thesis - 72 pages - Economy general
This study examines the issue of trust and the influence of the opinion of former users in electronic commerce. The lack of trust is the main reason why people are still reluctant to purchase online. Lack of trust is due to many reasons in online business, no physical contact, risk of theft of...
Are the migrant workers competing with locals in China's urban labour market? - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
At the end of the 1970s, the Communist Party of China (CPC) acknowledged that planned economy had not managed to increase the Chinese standards of living. Consequently, it started to reform the economic system in order to modernize it. The labor market was also not been excluded from such...
Analysis of the opportunities for a MNC to expand its international operations on Chinese and Indian markets - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 12 pages - Economy general
With the biggest two populations of the world, China (1.3 billion inhabitants) and India (1.1 billion inhabitants) became two major participants in the global economy. With the late evolution of their populations, China and India have evolved as the two most important emerging markets and they...
Creating Colette in Shanghai - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
By sticking to the original concept and in tandem with the new emerging Chinese market - How to recreate Colette's lifestyle store in Shanghai is a question that needs to be analyzed. First step is to start with the company analysis in order to underline its strengths and weaknesses and prepare...
International economics: Essay on the advantages and disadvantages of globalization
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
‘We are living a transformation which is going to reconstruct population and economy for the coming century. There will be no more national products and technologies, no more national firms, no more national industries, no more national economies. Only individuals, which constitute nations,...
Case study Schneider-LeGrand Merger
Case study - 14 pages - Economy general
Beginning with a certain turnover, the EU merger rules are to be applied to cross-border concentrations, irrespective of the size of the company or area of their activity. A pre-merger notification to the European Commission is obligatory. Most cases are closed by the completion of the phase I,...
Denmark: National Plan for Tourism - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 18 pages - Economy general
The Kingdom of Denmark, commonly known as Denmark, is a country located in the Scandinavian region of Northern Europe. It is the smallest and the southernmost among the Nordic countries. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are autonomous provinces of the Kingdom which are governed by domestic rules....
Northern Rock - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
If there is any country that has enjoyed a strong reputation and willpower in the field of finance, it is the UK. UK has enjoyed this position since the end of the 19th century. London has retained and is undoubtedly the leading financial centre in Europe. The banks in London and around the UK...
Franchising
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
Franchising is not a new concept. North America was among the first countries to successfully develop franchises in 1886 through the famous example of the Coca-Cola company. Franchises grew slowly during the 1950's but helped many firms expand their operations across borders, like Mc...
How are computers and the Internet changing the way in which modern businesses are organized ? - publié le 29/09/2010
Thesis - 93 pages - Economy general
In the same way that the Fordist system revolutionized the business world in its time (working conditions, productivity and competitiveness), the introduction of computers, and thereafter of the Internet, deeply modified the contemporary firms. Created, in the plainest and yet most cumbersome...
The income gap: a growing dilemma - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 19 pages - Economy general
While considering the poverty line in France, it is amazing to note that the current statistics has revealed that nearly 4 million people are homeless in France. This kind of an alarming and unmatched growth pattern is also visible across some Asian countries. Despite this poverty issue that...
Tensions over foreign direct investment (readings summary) - publié le 29/09/2010
Book review - 2 pages - Economy general
Foreign Direct Investment or FDI appears as a complex mechanism in which numerous and evolving issues are at stake. The first source of complexity lies in the numerous interests that may be pursued by the different actors involved. As the authors underline, the convergence of these interests is...
E-Tourism in Europe. The E-CRM and ITCs adoption issues: how to retain customers? - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 37 pages - Economy general
E-tourism offers the potential to make information and booking facilities available to a large number of consumers at a relatively lower cost. Among its several advantages are that it enables the tourism sector to make large scale savings on the production and distribution of print and other...
Business Cycles Analysis; The outlook for real GDP growth - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 35 pages - Economy general
Nowadays, the real GDP growth seems to be the prevailing worry for every economy. We are going to analyze real GDP growth and employment in France in 2006-2007, in the context of the international economy. Our overall objective is to understand and to interpret growth forecasts for a given...
International Business Environment and Strategy - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
"You have been asked by a major oil company to analyze the likely developments in the oil market over the next five years. Carefully explain the theoretical underpinnings to any predictions you make. How might your predictions influence the future strategic direction of the oil company? Explain...
The French motor industry in the world - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 37 pages - Economy general
Since more than half a century, the motor industry has represented, in most of industrialized countries a floret of the industry. In spite of the expansion of the service sector, the French motor industry occupies a very great place in our country. The manpower mass has decreased (in France this...
The results of the "lisbon agenda" - the attempt to make europe the world's most successful knowledge-based economy - are generally thought to have been disappointing. what steps should be taken by the european union, and by national governments - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
In March 2000, the Lisbon Strategy was launched to overcome a series of weaknesses in the European economy: long-term structural unemployment, a poor employment rate, and under-development of the service sector. In an often-quoted sentence, it has therefore assigned the EU "a new strategic goal...
Foreign direct investments: Issues and impact for developing countries - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
In the context of globalization, the increasing interconnection of markets and the geographical burst of the production chain can represent an opportunity for developing countries to join the world economy to enhance their growth. The resilience of foreign direct investment (FDI) during financial...
Discuss the main factors that determine product prices in the UK - published: 29/09/2010
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...
Study of the effects of privatization policies on the economy: The French example - publié le 29/09/2010
Dissertation - 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...
Short-run and long-run aggregate supply - publié le 29/09/2010
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...
Why Globalization Works by Martin Wolf - published: 29/09/2010
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...
Interest Rates - publié le 29/09/2010
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...
Energy choices in Europe: the case of electricity - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 14 pages - Economy general
Energy is a vital element for the economy as a whole as every sector demands its usage constantly. It is not an end-product by itself, but a pre-requisite for most of the economic activities. A sudden increase in energy prices or a disruption of supply can entail heavy economic repercussions. An...
Airbus, A380 - Company profile - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 41 pages - Economy general
Airbus is one of the world's leading suppliers of commercial aircraft. This 100-seater boasts a major portion of the market share of annual deliveries worldwide. Its market share has grown from 15% in 1990 to 52% in 2003. On December 31, 2003, its backlog of orders (1,454 aircraft) stood at...
Define and explain the concept of an income elasticity of demand for a product - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
Would you expect the income elasticity for potatoes and DVDs to be large or small? If the supply of oil is price inelastic in the short term, what would you expect the impact of an outwards shift in the demand for oil to be? What might happen in such a situation in the long term? In economics we...
Banana War - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 6 pages - Economy general
I have found this argument interesting because it is important to introduce to the public, the serious situation in which they are forced to work as workers of the third world. With this, I want to denounce the serious violations of the rights of the workers working in multinationals, that...
Environmental Economics: global warming - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 14 pages - Economy general
This essay is about the climate change and the direct and indirect effect on our environment, not only caused by human activities. The increased concentration of the greenhouse gases which include carbon-di-oxide and others, over the last 150 years has dramatically progressed. This fact, caused...
