Perspectives in International Business Final Exam Student Name__________________ 5 Essay/Problem questions Essay/Problem #1 10 POINTS If you lived in New York and you discovered that the dollar was quoted in Beijing at Y 2.60/US$, and the Yuan were quoted in New York at $0.40, what would you do to profit from the situation? ( remember, you live in New York, you originally own U.S . Dollars). #2
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Ethnic conflict: Ethnicity; defining principle of identity often determined by shared language, culture, religion * Desire to reassure and protect one’s own ethnic identity results in ethnic conflict within state boundaries * Ethnic cleansing; forcible removal of a group of people by another by violence and deportation ---- Genocide is an extreme form of ethnic cleansing Bosnian Genocide * The socialist federal republic of Yugoslavia was held together by the communist leadership
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of the Roman people. This was Augustus’s first feat that gained the respect of the Senate and led to him receiving the position of consul (Augustus). Augustus went on to lead his army to conquer new territories. The Roman Empire was expanding its borders and encompassing new lands to benefit trade. Under Augustus, the Romans seized Egypt, and territories in northern and western Europe
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immensity that it ignored the difficulties of pioneering new territories. For example, it assumed—wrongly—that Asian viewers wanted English-language programming. How to avoid this fate—and select the right targets for your firm’s global expansion? Look beyond a country’s sales potential (as expressed by national wealth or propensity to consume)—and analyze the probable impact of distance. But don’t focus only on distance’s geographical dimension. Consider three other dimensions as well: cultural factors
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EU JHA INTIATIVE AGAINST TNOC Europol has the greatest potential in fighting multinational crime. JHA primarily was aimed in facilitating international cooperation for the EU countries. The cooperation included migration, crime management, border management, issues related to internal security, counterterrorism and civil law. It came into place to make the four freedoms of movement of people, goods, services and money. Framed within the context of the Treaty of the European Union, Europol’s
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‘Is there a democratic deficit at the heart of the EU?’ Plan: Intro: -What is a democratic deficit? The European Union (EU) is a unique economic and political union of 27 member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU operates through a system of supranational independent institutions and intergovernmental negotiated decisions by the member states. Important institutions of the EU include the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, the European Council, the Court
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consists of retail sales of consumer products and subscriptions through internationally focused locations (Mergent Online, 2010). Diversification is a form of growth strategy. Growth strategies involve a significant increase in performance objectives beyond past levels of performance (Mason, 2008). Many organizations pursue one or more types of growth strategies; however, there are many pros and cons pertaining to diversification. In the case of Amazon’s growth, two of the pros are innovation and infrastructure
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Understand the circumstances that led to the Louisiana Purchase The circumstances that led to the Louisiana Purchase were the transcontinental railroad that would connect Atlantic to the Pacific that allowed settlers a faster and safer way to California and the West. It led to the now famous Lois and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. We championed westward expansion and exploration which doubled the size of the landscape. He fanned fundamental disagreement about the spread of slavery to
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Solving the Syrian Refugee Crisis A Refugee is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as “a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster”. The Syrian refugee crisis has become a consistent cause for concern for the international community, resulting in the highest influx of refugees in Europe since the second world-war. To some people this crisis may seem a relatively new phenomenon, however in actual fact it has been ongoing for the past five
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European Social Law Essay “In Western European societies, the dissociation between labour law and the law governing markets, which resulted in the emancipation of the former [from the latter], has been of significant relevance” (Antoine Lyon Caen, translation from “Droit Communautaire du marché v.s. Europe sociale”) Discuss whether and to what extent the ECJ's judgements in Viking, Laval, and Rüffert make it difficult to uphold the division between labour law on the one hand and the law of
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