Proposal MSc Finance and Investment Please when you propose a new topic, always ask yourself the following questions and send me your answers to these first – What’s the concrete research question my dissertation will adddress (i.e. not just a vague/broad topic on a relationship between two things)? What novel hypotheses can be derived from your research question which can be feasibly tested empirically? What contribution(s) does your dissertation make to what we don’t already know (i.e. which gaps in the literature your work is addressing)? What data sources are available to allow you to empirically test these hypotheses posited? Please when you propose a new topic, always ask yourself the following questions and send me your answers to these first – What’s the concrete research question my dissertation will adddress (i.e. not just a vague/broad topic on a relationship between two things)? What novel hypotheses can be derived from your research question which can be feasibly tested empirically? What contribution(s) does your dissertation make to what we don’t already know (i.e. which gaps in the literature your work is…
Microeconomics (demand & supply, market failure, sustainability) Write about the following article. https://www.theguardian.com/envir onment/2019/dec/12/queensland-school-water-commercial-bottlers-tamborine-mountain This is a great article about an unfortunate case where local water supplies are running low due to the severe drought in the Mount Tamborine area, where residents do not have access to reticulater water (piped-water supplies). You can choose to write about many different economic concepts here (make sure you keep your focus on two of these): negative externalities of production (i.e. Coca-Cola production leading to no water in the school, parents to be warned to consider not sending their children to school) threats to sustainability (think of water supplies: “What might have potentially been a sustainable business at one point in time, that’s no longer sustainable.”) resource allocation (should the government intervene perhaps?) Start it off by introducing the issue and analyzing it, and then introduce an economic solution to the issue and analyze that.[unique_solution] Microeconomics (demand & supply, market failure, sustainability) Write about the following article. https://www.theguardian.com/envir onment/2019/dec/12/queensland-school-water-commercial-bottlers-tamborine-mountain This is a great article about an unfortunate case where local water supplies are running…
Ed Miliband energy plan boost: Other EU countries already have charges capped This article is about Ed Miliband’s proposal to freeze prices for energy. Six market giants are complaining that this will make the profits fall and could lead to blackouts. According to the article the UK’s energy market is dominated by six firms. A market with such competition level is an oligopoly. As it consists of six large firms, they are interdependent: firms have to consider actions and reactions of their competitors. Products in an oligopoly are normally (however, not in electricity market) differentiated. Finally, there are rather high barriers to entry. The article states that prices in the UK for electricity have been rising the quickest in Europe. Reasons are not mentioned but there could be a few possibilities. Firstly, there is a chance that every firm’s production costs have been increasing. Consider the diagram (for simplicity, a monopoly diagram is used): Assume British Gas is producing quantity Q1 where MC1=MR and none of the Big Six are colluding formally or informally.…
Money laundering Money laundering is the illegal process of making a large amount of generated from a criminal activity appear as if it got created in a legal business. Criminals who engage in illicit activities such as drug trafficking use various techniques to make it look as if their money got acquired through legitimate means. The techniques of hiding proceeds from a crime include transporting the money out of the country, purchasing a business for channeling funds or buying easily transportable valuables (1). The commonest market for money laundering service is by running a legal firm to make it appear as the money gets generated by the company. For instance, when a criminal organization owns a jewelry store, they may inflate the daily cash receipts to cover for illegal cash through the jewelry store into the bank account of the jewelry store. That way, money from criminal activities gets deposited into the bank account in the name of proceeds from the jewelry store. Valuables such as gold and diamonds were and still are a market for money laundering. The criminals…
Business and Management Discussion 1- A case study on oil projects In the business world, the term procurement refers to the process of coming up and agreeing to terms on the supply, acquisition as well as other activities involved in goods and services exchange between two or more business entities. Procurement is an essential aspect of business as it provides a framework along which business transactions are conducted across, thereby facilitating efficient, useful undertaking of business operations (Marschan-Piekkari, & Welch, 2011). The lack of proper procurement strategies is likely to result in a business failure, given that the unaddressed areas of operation may jeopardize the whole process. The case study below on oil projects is an instance of how the lack of a proper procurement procedure could affect the effectiveness of a given action. Engineering projects are prone to delays or challenges in adhering to a strict work schedule due to elements such as weather or unprecedented field events. As a result, these mishaps result in cost overrunning expenses, which may result in budget overruns, which may be detrimental to…
The banking sector development in the GCC Banking sector development in Saudi Arabia 1.1 Early banking in Saudi Arabia was confined to involving a few foreign-based commercial firms, such as the branch of Algemene Bank Nederland, and numerous moneychangers. Their primary activity was to provide financial services both domestically and by pilgrimage. After the oil exploration in 1939, the more structured and centralized type of banking system developed, and as soon as World War II ended, the Saudi sector drew leading foreign banks to establish branches. The French Banque de l’Indochine and Arab Bank Limited then established their branches in Jeddah in 1948; while three major banks established their branches in 1950, which are the British Middle East Bank, the National Bank of Pakistan, and Bank Misr (of Egypt). Until 1952, a year that witnessed the establishment of the Saudi Arabia Monetary Agency (SAMA), Saudi Arabia had no national currency .SAMA introduced a paper money in the form of pilgrim receipts during 1950-6, which were covered by foreign currencies and precious metals. In 1960, the arrival of Saudi national currency,…
Quality improvement initiative assignment Executive Summary In this assignment, you will propose a quality improvement initiative from your place of employment that could easily be implemented if approved. Assume you are presenting this program to the board for approval of funding. Write an executive summary (750-1,000 words) to present to the board, from which the board will make its decision to fund your program or project. Include the following: The purpose of the quality improvement initiative. The target population or audience. The benefits of the quality improvement initiative. The interprofessional collaboration that would be required to implement the quality improvement initiative. The cost or budget justification. The basis upon which the quality improvement initiative will be evaluated. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for…
causes of climate change Climate change is a worldwide most pressing problem which requires response from all international community. The phenomenon is associated with changes in behavior of the weather over a longer period of time. Climate is very essential to the world as it help determine the landscape, the plants and animals as well as humans in it. However climate change has become a popular and controversial topic because many people tend to believe it’s mostly the result of human activities which is not always the case. There are two causes of climate change natural causes; (Naturally variation in solar irradiance, variations in orbital parameters of earth and volcanic activities cause climate change) and human influence. Natural causes Volcanoes Volcanoes contribute to climate change through the large volumes of sulphur dioxide, water vapor, dust and ash it emits during an eruption. These emissions can influence climate patterns for years. The gasses and dust particles tend to block the incoming sun rays partially which affects heat budget. Sulphur dioxide combines with water forming tiny droplets of sulphuric acid which takes…