leads to unemployment, decrease in supply, fall in the people’s purchasing power among many others (Brabec, 2012). In order to address these issues, it is imperative that the roots of these issues are identified. This is the central focus of this paper. It identifies and explains the possible causes of oil price upheavals in the world. According to Maher (2012), causes of fluctuating oil prices in the world can be explained under demand side, supply side, economic side, and environmental protection
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CFA Institute Fundamental Indexation Author(s): Robert D. Arnott, Jason Hsu and Philip Moore Source: Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 2005), pp. 83-99 Published by: CFA Institute Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4480658 . Accessed: 24/02/2014 01:32 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars
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Secular Stagnation: Facts, Causes and Cures Edited by Coen Teulings and Richard Baldwin CEPR Press a A VoxEU.org Book Secular Stagnation: Facts, Causes, and Cures A VoxEU.org eBook Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Centre for Economic Policy Research 3rd Floor 77 Bastwick Street London, EC1V 3PZ UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7183 8801 Email: cepr@cepr.org Web: www.cepr.org ISBN: 978-1-907142-77-2 © CEPR Press, 2014 Secular Stagnation: Facts, Causes, and Cures A VoxEU.org eBook
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1 Attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to India Ramkishen S. Rajana, Sunil Rongalab and Ramya Ghoshc April 2008 --------------------------a) George Mason University, Virginia, USA. E-mail: rrajan1@gmu.edu . b) International Professional Services Organization, Hyderabad, India. E-mail: sunil.rongala@gmail.com c) Claremont Graduate University, California, USA. Email: ramya.ghosh@cgu.edu We thank Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy for useful research assistance. The usual disclaimer applies
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United States and the Lorenz Curve 1 Market economies are favored and well-known for generating macroeconomic growth and progress in industrialized nations, such as the United States. Numerous academic studies and economic research have been done not only to measure economic growth, but also to analyze any disparities in income distributions among the general American population. This paper will examine trends and patterns of American wages since the 1970s, focusing on shifts in income distributions
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17. January 2013 Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/43907/ MPRA Paper No. 43907, posted 21. January 2013 12:56 UTC Optimal Choice of an Exchange Rate Regime: A Critical Literature Review 1 Mariam OUCHEN Laboratory of innovation, responsibility and sustainable development Cadi Ayyad University, Faculty of Economics Marrakesh Morocco Center of Macroeconomics and economic theory University of Basel Abstract :This paper set out to review the main theories and empirical methods employed in selecting
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Origins and Responses to the Crisis Barry Eichengreen University of California, Berkeley October 2008 Nearly two years after the outbreak of the credit crisis (which may be dated to March 2007 when major losses were announced by the U.S. subprime-based investors Accredited Home Lenders Holding and New Century Financial), key issues remain to be resolved. At the most basic level the questions are two. What caused the crisis? And in light of one’s answer to this first question, what should
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Nigeria – West Africa Abstract This paper seeks to establish that unemployment as one of the macroeconomic problems could be reduced through the informal sector participation provided it is well supported and manged. The informal sector in itself may not be able to achieve much as we have presently due to inaccessibility to credit, but with the on-going policy of the Federal Government through the Central Bank of Nigeria on micro-financing the macroeconomic objective of reduced unemployment, if
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South African Reserve Bank Working Paper Series WP/13/04 South African Capital Markets: An Overview Shakill Hassan October 2013 South African Reserve Bank Working Papers are written by staff members of the South African Reserve Bank and on occasion by consultants under the auspices of the Bank. The papers deal with topical issues and describe preliminary research findings, and develop new analytical or empirical approaches in their analyses. They are solely intended to elicit comments and
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INTRODUCTION The bank is one of the key-player in the capitalist system. The main cause of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis was the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis and the bursting of the housing bubble of the United States. As banks perform suspect lending practices to almost everyone, the result was the house pricing index has increased. From an ambitious point of view banks encouraged potential owners to take further loans more than they are capable of in hopes of generating more revenue. The next
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