Economics essays

INTRODUCTION As any semblance of diplomacy between most of the Western World and nations like North Korea continues to wither away, the need to increase speculation and outright regulation of cryptocurrencies has become ever more vital. At this point in time, it is widely speculated that nations like North Korea have been pooling funds to … Read more

This paper examines factors that lead to financial contagion and what makes a country with a fixed exchange rate or a currency peg even more vulnerable to contagious effects. More specifically, this paper tests whether Bulgaria, a small open East European economy, a member of the European Union (EU), with a fixed exchange rate to … Read more

There are quite a few gender challenges for microfinance that need to be looked into, if it’s motive is to truly empower women:   It can be quite a task to reach out to women, irrespective of whether it is through traditional or digital channels. Factors such as household responsibilities and social taboos may prevent … Read more

This article is about circular economy and the policies concerning Circular Economy. The first part of the article will describe what circular economy is and the counterpart of Circular Economy. Afterwards a couple of benefits of circular Economy will be described. The last part of the article will discuss rules from the past, current rules … Read more

PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT: HOW MALAYSIA REFORMS AMONG THE CRISIS ABSTRACT Since 1989, Malaysia has implement the Public Expenditure Management reforms through the using of the Modified Budgeting System (MBS). Public Expenditure Management (PEM) is an approach to public sector budgets are oriented towards achieving the desired social results. PEM introduced based on the three purposes … Read more

Abstract This study is being conducted on the evolution of merger arbitrage spread post the financial meltdown of 2008 that is considered by many economists as the worst financial crisis after the Great Depression of the 1930s. Considering how cautious investors have become now, putting money in merger arbitrage investment strategy that seeks to profit … Read more

  ABSTRACT Real exchange rate has proven to be an important factor in economy of a country therefore its volatility information is of importance to investors, policy makers, government and also other researchers. Exchange rates volatility has increase a lot of doubts in many economic sectors (industrial and agricultural) in Kenya. This study modelled KSH/USD … Read more

Over the past few years Tanzania government has been struggling to solve the mismatch or disconnection between economic growth and poverty reduction. National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of Tanzania provides annual GDP growth rate averaged 6.72% from 2002 until 2015, highest being 12.40% in the third quarter of 2007 and a lowest record of 2.60% … Read more

Resource curse is a theory of economics, multi-fingered and mining resource-related economic and social issues. Abundant natural resources, economic development could be a curse rather than a blessing, most of the slower growth in countries rich in natural resources than those countries with scarce resources. Economists attributed the deteriorating terms of trade, the Dutch disease … Read more

To certain nations over the years the Eurozone has become burdensome and lead to serious economic turmoil. Greece in the May of 2010 and February 2012, Ireland in November 2010, Portugal in May 2011, Spain in July 2012 and Cyprus in May 2013 were all force to take emergency loans from other Eurozone and EU … Read more

The decades following World War II witnessed an enormous expansion of government intervention in national economies, particularly in the 1960s and early 1970s, when the public enterprise was seen as a major contributor to economic growth and socio-political stability (Hemming and Mansoor, 1988:31). The interventionist development policies of the period resulted in the creation of … Read more

History First, Adam Smith, in 1776, first suggested the concept of absolute advantage as the basis for international trade in his publication “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”. Absolute advantage, as a principle, refers to the ability of an entity (like an individual, a firm, or a country) to … Read more

Question 1 Market risk is a risk of financial institutions earnings decreasing due to uncertainties in the movement of market factors, such as changes in interest rates, asset prices, market volatility and market liquidity. We use Value-at-risk to calculate the exposure of the market risk to a financial institution. There are various risk factors in … Read more

INTRODUCTION Exports are nothing but just shipping of goods and services out of port of a country. In international trade export is selling of goods and services produced in home countries to other markets. Export plays an imp. Role in a country’s economy. Exports counterpart is import. Export of commercial quantities of goods requires involvement … Read more