Institutions and Markets Seminar 02 Monetary Policy and Interest Rates Learning Objective: 2 Necmi K Avkiran, PhD Associate Professor in Banking and Finance UQ Business School n.avkiran@business.uq.edu.au http://www.users.on.net/~necmi/financesite/profile.htm Overview of the seminar Monetary policy RBA market operations Balance sheet of the RBA Determination of interest rates and factors that affect rates The yield curve Transmission mechanism Inflation and the Fisher
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FEATURES OF BANGLADESH ECONOMY GDP and its composition. During the fiscal year 2002-2003, the GDP of Bangladesh stood at around $52 billion. The growth rate of GDP has picked up in recent years. Thus, during 1980-90, it grew annually at 3.7 per cent on average, barely above the population growth rate. On the other hand, it approached an average annual rate of 5 per cent during 1991-2002. The relative shares of consumption and savings in the GDP witnessed modest changes during this period. In 1991, consumption
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coIn 1950, there were 49 countries with stock exchanges, 24 were in Europe and 14 in former British colonies such as the United States, Canada and Australia. Their usefulness was seen as limited to only the wealthier countries in which they resided. Developing countries had low levels of savings and limited means to attract foreign capital; stock markets played an insignificant role in their economic growth before the 1980s. Funding for economic capital came primarily from foreign aid, state-to-state
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Broadening our horizons 002 QANTAS ANNUAL REPORT 2012 Broadening our horizons Building on unique Australian qualities – and the skills of its 33,600 people – the Qantas Group is broadening its horizons to secure a successful and profitable future. 003 004 QANTAS ANNUAL REPORT 2012 Heading For the Qantas Group, 2011/2012 was a year of transformation. We recorded an Underlying Profit Before Tax* despite significant challenges. We continued to build Qantas’ strong domestic network
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a whole can be a very critical factor of industry performance, and if an economy is not expanding it can be difficult for a business to be successful (Bodie). Influences that are capable of impacting an economy are growth rates, unemployment rate, interest rates, exchange rates,
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financial system worldwide has been so devastated by the crisis. Around 1990, losses of savings and loans institutions in the United States were said to amount to some 600 to 800 billion dollars. A decade later, losses on NASDAQ and on the New York Stock Exchange amounted to 1.6 trillion dollars in the calendar year 2000, 1.4 trillion dollars in the calendar year 2001, and again 2.7 trillion dollars in the calendar year 2002. Neither episode caused a worldwide financial crisis. At the same time, the figure
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Heineken N. V. Annual Report 2013 Front cover image igNITE beer bottle We are always committed to surprising and exciting our consumers. That’s why we have introduced the interactive igNITE beer bottle. The bottle lights up when you ‘CHEERS’ or drink and flashes along to the beat of the music. It ignites the night. Annual Report 2013 Contents Overview Report of the Executive Board Report of the Supervisory Board Financial statements Other information Welcome to
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Background of the study Banking plays an important role in the lives of individuals as well as nations. As a matter of fact, you couldn’t just imagine how our economic system in particular could function efficiently and effectively without the services rendered by banks. As the center of the financial sector, the banking industry in most emerging economies is passing through a process of change. With the passing of years, our banking system underwent
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Furthermore, it is also utilized to understand the opportunities which may be open to the organization and the potential threats that it may face. “Once a company has a firm understanding of where it stands financially, the next part of the internal assessment is conducting a SWOT analysis, which stands for a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.” (Abraham. S.C, 2012) Using a SWOT analysis allows organizations to carefully pinpoint where they stand against competition, where their
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for those who had bought protection against default by Athens. Yet, while market disorder was avoided, there remain concerns that CDS are flawed. Market participants insist lessons need to be learned from the Greek debt restructuring deal and bond exchange, or these insurance-like instruments, untested in a sovereign restructuring before Greece and which are used as a protection against losses on bonds, could lose their appeal. An auction held by 14 banks set a market-wide payout of $2.5bn, or 78
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