| 2011 | | Monetary economics assignment | Pros and cons of commodity backed currency Submitted to: Prof: Abid Raza Submitted by: Group members Name roll # Adeel Obaid 64 Burhan Ali 24 Abid Daud 60 Pros and cons of commodity backed currency Pros: * Long-term price stability has been described as the great virtue of the commodity back standard. Under the commodity back standard‚ high levels of inflation are rare‚ and hyperinflation is nearly impossible as the money
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Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS The American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) is a foreign exchange program organization that provides 50‚000 students the opportunity to study abroad. AIFS serve American students traveling abroad to Europe‚ China‚ Mexico‚ and other locations. Therefore‚ AIFS receive cash inflows in dollars while they pay outflows in mostly Euros and British Pounds. The organization had $200 million in annual revenues. AIFS provides two main divisions: the College division primarily
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Foreign Trade Turkmenistan Table of Contents In the early 1990s‚ Turkmenistan’s foreign trade remained completely under the control of the central government. During that period‚ the most important trading partners remained the former republics of the Soviet Union‚ with which the great majority of trade had been conducted during the Soviet era. Natural gas is the most profitable item available for foreign sale. Trade Structure In controlling Turkmenistan’s trade sector‚ the main goal of government
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USE OF SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY FOR WEATHER FORECASTING Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a given location and over the years many techniques have been used to forecast the weather‚ Satellite technology is one of it. The history of weather forecasting and early satellite programmes was told using archive film‚ highlighting the difficulties associated with a lack of weather data. Two hundred dedicated weather satellites
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Fong Yuen Ying (Fioni) EU’s unknown Asia - Does Asia need a single currency to lead the world? As the euro has contributed to the culture and economy of Europe‚ I would like to examine if Asia‚ particularly East Asia‚ could learn a lesson from the EU to create a single currency. In fact‚ small intra-regional exchange rate misalignment can interrupt trade and investment flows and potential trade frictions can occur among regional economies. It suggests that the need for intra-regional exchange
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unemployed Malaysian increases as job opportunity being taken away. The employer prefer to hire foreign workers as they are willing to accept lower pay from the locals especially in the lower skilled jobs. Consequently‚ the jobs opening for the locals are diminishing as they have to compete with the foreigners . The burden will be put on the government as social welfare expenses will be higher. The influx of foreign workers coming to Malaysia will also cause reduced national income. No doubt the main cause
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| Currency devaluation and its effects on the economy | Focus on the Argentine economy | Agustina DalFabbro‚ Michele Mottola‚ Giuseppe Merlino‚ Saskia Diehl 26.05.2012 | Inhalt 1. Introduction 2 2. Convertibility and its problems in the 1999/2001 period 2 1.1 Previous Devaluation Process in Argentina 2 2. First moments of devaluation 3 2.1 Fixed exchange rate vs. floating exchange rate regimes 3 2.2 Two types of exchange rates and free floating currency 5 2.2 Free
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Chapter 4 FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FDI is the outcome of Mutual interest of MNC’s and host countries. The FDI refers to the investment of MNC’’ in host countries in the form of creating productive facilities and having ownership and control. On the other hand if MNC or a foreign organization or a foreign individual buys bonds issued by host country it is not FDI‚ as it has no attached management or controlling interest. Such investments are called Portfolio Investments. In developing
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CHAPTER 4: FORECASTING TRUE/FALSE 1. Tupperware only uses both qualitative and quantitative forecasting techniques‚ culminating in a final forecast that is the consensus of all participating managers. False (Global company profile: Tupperware Corporation‚ moderate) 2. The forecasting time horizon and the forecasting techniques used tend to vary over the life cycle of a product. True (What is forecasting? moderate) 3. Sales forecasts are an input to financial planning‚ while demand forecasts
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Neurocomputing 55 (2003) 307 – 319 www.elsevier.com/locate/neucom Financial time series forecasting using support vector machines Kyoung-jae Kim∗ Department of Information Systems‚ College of Business Administration‚ Dongguk University‚ 3-26‚ Pil-dong‚ Chung-gu‚ Seoul 100715‚ South Korea Received 28 February 2002; accepted 13 March 2003 Abstract Support vector machines (SVMs) are promising methods for the prediction of ÿnancial timeseries because they use a risk function consisting of the
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