UNDERGRADUATE SYLLABUS Global Economics II Semester 2 2013/14 Miguel Lebre de Freitas PhD in Economics‚ University of London (Birkbeck College)‚ 1998. Assistant Professor at Universidade de Aveiro‚ Invited Assistant Professor at Nova SBE. Previously‚ he served as Chief Economist at the Ministry of Economy (Director of Cabinet of Strategy and Studies‚ 2005-2010). His professional experience also includes a passage through the Bank of Portugal’ Department of Economic Studies (1999-2000)‚ as
Premium Economics Exchange rate Currency
Outline 1. What is oil 2. Petroleum industry 3. Domestic and industrial usage of oil 4. Middle eastern oil 5. OPEC 6. Role of Saudi Arabia‚ Venezuela 7. US consumption of oil - 1/4th of total oil 8. War for oil - Iraq War‚ War on terror 9. Oil as a weapon by Arabs‚ Arab Israeli Conflict‚ Central America 10. Political Greed 11. Pipeline diplomacey Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan 12. The politics of oil nationalization 13. New alternatives ethnol
Premium Petroleum Iraq Oil reserves
Summarize the most important benefits and risks associated with diversification into global markets. There are benefits and there are risks associated with diversification into global markets. Diversification into global markets means a company is seeking to have the control in one central area instead of in many different areas because ultimately they are seeking to control their costs. The main advantage of a global market is that a company does not need to make a lot of variations of a product. They
Premium Marketing International trade Subsidiary
an aura of excellence—and a set of obligations. To maximize the value of global reach‚ companies must manage both. How Global Brands Compete by Douglas B. Holt‚ John A. Quelch‚ and Earl L. Taylor Reprint R0409D When a brand is marketed around the world‚ that fact alone gives it an aura of excellence—and a set of obligations. To maximize the value of global reach‚ companies must manage both. How Global Brands Compete COPYRIGHT © 2004 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION
Free Globalization Corporation Multinational corporation
January 16‚ 2009 Global Oil Crisis – Word Count: 1‚823 Global Oil Crisis: The depleting oil supply and the need for alternatives Oil is the single most important energy source that drives our economy and makes civilized life as we know it today possible. It is so vital to our life that if the earth’s oil supply were to run out within the next 20 years‚ it would completely cripple the United States and its economy. We use oil and other fossil fuels for transportation (of goods‚
Premium Petroleum Peak oil Energy development
become a global issue which has brought about much concern‚ particularly in Japan‚ which has an aging population outweighing that of any other nation worldwide. During the decade after the Second World War‚ Japan was still suffering the disastrous aftermath imposed previously by large scale conflict‚ and amid the post war decade only an estimated 5% of the Japanese population belonged in the sixty five years or older category. However‚ due to steady reconstruction and Japan’s large economic boom through
Premium Retirement Japan Aging
“Globalization of markets” (Levitt 1983) is an expression which related first to demand: taste‚ preferences and price-mindedness are becoming increasingly universal. Second‚ it relates to the supply side; products and services tend to become more standardized and competition within industries reaches a world-wide scale. Third‚ it relates to the way firms‚ mainly multinational companies‚ try to design their marketing policies and control systems appropriately so as to remain winners in the global competition
Free Globalization Corporation Multinational corporation
Ruth N. Bolton & Matthew B. Myers Price-Based Global Market Segmentation for Services In business-to-business marketing‚ managers are often tasked with developing effective global pricing strategies for customers characterized by different cultures and different utilities for product attributes. The challenges of formulating international pricing schedules are especially evident in global markets for service offerings‚ where intensive customer contact‚ extensive customization requirements‚ and
Premium Supply and demand Price elasticity of demand Marketing
Why Did Global Food Prices Rise? 1. Farmers in the United States and in Europe benefit from government policies to promote the production of ethanol because they receive government subsidies to produce crops that can be turned into biofuels and it gives the farmers an incentive to plant crops such as corn and soybeans. However‚ this policy harms foreign producers of these foreign crops. Since U.S. and European farmers have subsidies‚ they have lower costs than the foreign farmers and the foreign
Premium Poverty European Union United States
THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWN Economies of the world all have their periods of rise and fall. No economy can experience total stability over a period of time- there must be some forms of rise or fall in the stability of the economy. Today‚ virtually every country in the world is affected by what happens in other countries. Some of these effects are a result of political events‚ such as the overthrow of one government in favor of another. But a great deal of the interdependence among the nations
Premium Subprime mortgage crisis Economics Investment