ability of the Dynamic Conditional Correlation Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (DCC-GARCH). We estimate the DCC’s forecasting ability relative to unconditional volatility in three equity-based crashes: the S&L Crisis, the Dot-Com Boom/Crash, and the recent Credit Crisis. The assets we use are the S&P 500 index, 10-Year US Treasury bonds, Moody’s A Industrial bonds, and the Dollar/Yen exchange rate. Our results suggest that the choice of asset pair may be a determining
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I recently got an email from a founder that helped me understand something important: why it's safe for startup founders to be nice people. I grew up with a cartoon idea of a very successful businessman (in the cartoon it was always a man): a rapacious, cigar-smoking, table-thumping guy in his fifties who wins by exercising power, and isn't too fussy about how. As I've written before, one of the things that has surprised me most about startups is how few of the most successful founders are like
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Explosive Bubbles of the Early 2000s is about irrational behavior and greediness of investors the leads to expand the bubble but market is very efficient and eventually it corrects itself. Boom and bust is common when new technology comes but market always corrects any irrationality itself. Malkiel suggest that investor should invest in such companies that have ability to make and sustain profit. The most interesting fact for me was how only changing the name of the company to dot-com or dot-net affected
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BUYVIP, THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF A SPANISH DOT COM The “Centro Virtual de Experiencias de Internacionalización” (On-line Centre for International Business Cases) is the result of the collaboration of the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade ICEX and AEEDE, the Spanish Association of Business Schools , which includes eleven leading Business Schools. The aim of this project is to promote the internationalisation of Spanish SMEs, drawing on the academic rigour of the business schools that
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Samantha Lev, Stephen Stewart Dr. Allen MKT 425 February 28, 2016 Group Case Study: Boo.com There are several marketing decisions and strategies that led to the failure of the 1998 online global sports retail site. The most obvious assumption was that the company lacked the resources it needed along with the expertise to create a company that would launch and continue to be successful for many years to come. The founders of the company were former creators and the financial director of an
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Strategic Management_Assesment01_Melgie Nebiar 701476_Ma. Janine So 701337_Rhea Lyn Haro 701495_2016BusT1L7B The evolution of strategy planned at Yahoo and their response to unforeseen events happening in its external and internal environments. The evolution of strategic planning of Yahoo was base on the improvement in their basic character and structures, educating the users in the internet world which is “Gerry’s Guide to the world wide web” which later on called yahoo and analyzing the competitive
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Samantha Lev, Stephen Stewart Dr. Allen MKT 425 February 28, 2016 Group Case Study: Boo.com There are several marketing decisions and strategies that led to the failure of the 1998 online global sports retail site. The most obvious assumption was that the company lacked the resources it needed along with the expertise to create a company that would launch and continue to be successful for many years to come. The founders of the company were former creators and the financial director of an
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Running head: Internal Fraud Internal Fraud Jennifer England Strayer University Accounting Capstone – ACC 499 Professor Grant A. Wills August 3, 2011 Internal Fraud Infosys Limited is an IT and consulting company, it defines, designs and delivers technology-enabled solutions for Global 2000 companies. Infosys provides business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, independent
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April 2009 I usually avoid politics, but since we now seem to have an administration that's open to suggestions, I'm going to risk making one. The single biggest thing the government could do to increase the number of startups in this country is a policy that would cost nothing: establish a new class of visa for startup founders. The biggest constraint on the number of new startups that get created in the US is not tax policy or employment law or even Sarbanes-Oxley. It's that we won't let
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Case Study Chapter 1: The role of capital market intermediaries in the dot-com crash of 2000 1. What is the intended role of each of the institutions and intermediaries discussed in the case for the effective functioning of capital markets? i. Venture Capitalist: provides capital for the company in the early stage of development and ensures company to have a good management team and sustainable business. VC demand high return on investment and sells stock usually to public through IPO
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