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Asset Acquisition

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 07:25:44 +0000

Asset Acquisition When a company acquires assets of another. Sometimes, the seller company has financial problems or whish to sell assets for other reasons. The buyer company doesn't want to take control over the seller company, just buy some assets that considers of value.

Basic Goods

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:08:03 +0000

Basic Goods Basic Goods are those material things used to satisfy human requirements that are needed to survive, like food, shelter and clothing. Examples of basic goods are: * Flour * Water * Rice * Clothing * Bread * Eggs Differente countries can have different basic goods: a good can be classified as basic in one country, and not in another country. It depends on the economic structure of the country, availability of goods and sociocultural factors: conrmeal is a basic good in…

Bienes Básicos

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 10:33:58 +0000

Bienes Básicos Los bienes básicos son aquellos bienes necesarios para satisfacer las necesidades básicas como alimentación, vivienda y vestimenta. Ejemplos de bienes básicos son: - Harina - Agua - Ropa Los bienes básicos pueden variar de país en país, de acuerdo a la economía de cada región o de acuerdo a las características de consumo del país.

Cobb-Douglas Output Elasticity

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:36:11 +0000

Cobb-Douglas Output Elasticity The Cobb-Douglas Output Elasticity is constant and equal to α or β. If the Cobb-Douglas production function is Q(L,K) = A LβKα, the output elasticity with respect to labor (L) is β and the output elasticity with respect to capital (K) is α.

Cobb-Douglas Production Function

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 08:27:56 +0000

Cobb-Douglas Production Function The Cobb-Douglas Production Function is a particular form of the Production Function. It takes the following form: Q(L,K) = A Lβ Kα * L:labor * K:capital * Q:output * A>0 * 0<α<1 * 0<β<1 Properties of Cobb Douglas Production Function

Commercial Agreements

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 06:21:47 +0000

Commercial Agreements - Bilateral agreements: an agreement between 2 countries, to reduce or eliminate some tariffs. Example: the bilateral agreement between United States and Chile eliminated 90% of tariffs on US exports to Chile and 95% of Chilean exports to the U.S.

Credit Risk

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:48:53 +0000

Credit Risk Credit Risk is the risk of the default of a debt. Every credit operation has a default risk. A credit agreement can be unfilled by: * Non payment * Partial payment * Later than prearranged payment date For the lender, it's a problem of

Economic Model

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:48:35 +0000

Economic Model An economic modes is a simplified representation of a theory, lay or economic event. The main elements of an economic model are: * Assumptions * Psicological * Estructural * Institutional * Variables * Endogenous * Exogenous * Parameters

Elasticity of Production

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 07:52:57 +0000

Elasticity of Production The elasticity of production, also called output elasticity, is the percentaje change in the production of a good by a firm, divided the percentage change in an input used for the production of that good, for example, labor or capital.

Financial Leasing

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 07:01:33 +0000

Financial Leasing Financial leasing is a financing instrument that allows a tenant to use a certain asset while it pays a series of rentals or installments. After a period of time, the tenant has the option to acquire ownership of the asset in question, by paying a prearranged additional amount.

Financial Resources

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 07:08:25 +0000

Financial Resources Financial resources are the set of liquid assets of an organizations. Financial resources are: * Cash * Bank deposits * Stocks * Bonds * Foreign currencies holdings Financial resources are used to carry out the operations of a business and to make long term investments.

Fitch Ratings Scale

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 07:43:01 +0000

Fitch Ratings Scale Fitch Ratings Inc. in an international credit rating agency. Together with Moody's and Standard & Poors, Fitch is one of the largest credit rating agencies in the world. Fitch Rating was founded in 1913. Credit rating agencies make risk assessments of financial instruments like:

Types of Foreign Direct Investment

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:07:52 +0000

Types of Foreign Direct Investment Foreign Direct Investment is the investment of funds by people or companies of a country, in assets of another country. There are 4 main types of foreign direct investment: * Creation of a new company * Adquisition an existing company

Meaning of GDP

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:38:17 +0000

Meaning of GDP The GPD (Gross Domestic Product) is perhaps the most used measurement of the size of a country's economy. Definition: GPD is the monetary value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a country during a specific time period.

Causes of the Great Depression

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:04:24 +0000

Causes of the Great Depression * Structure of the Global Economy: Gold Standard and monetary links * Sanctions to Germany after the WWI * Deregulation of capital markets * US Policy: Hoover and the FED bad policies The Great Depression was the deepest economic crisis in history. Millions of people fell into poverty and unemployment, not only in the United States but around the world. Economists are still learning the lessons of the Great Depression

NPV in Excel

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:53:15 +0000

NPV in Excel This pages teach you how to calculate the Net Present Value (NPV) of an investment project, using Microsoft Excel. 1- Have the Cash Flow and the Discount Rate Available To calculate the NPV you will need the initial investment and all the future cash flows. Usually, the NPV is used to analyze the profitability of an investment that will happen in the future. This is why all the future cash flows are usually estimations or projections.

Vanguard Index Funds

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:33:40 +0000

Vanguard Index Funds Vanguard is an american company that is registered as investment adviser. Vanguard is know for it's mutual and index funds. Vanguard is the second provider of ETF funds (Exchange Traded Funds). The founder of Vanguard, John C. Bogle, was the creator of the first index fund.

Interest Rates During the Great Depression

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:48:27 +0000

Interest Rates During the Great Depression In spite of speculation in Wall Street and the rise in assets prices, In 1927 the FED implemented tighter monetary policy. The rise in rates didn't let to less speculation in Wall Street but did have an impact in foreign debtors.

What is an Initial Public Offering?

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 20:58:07 +0000

What is an Initial Public Offering? An Initial Public Offering (IPO) is the first public stock offer of a corporation. Non public corporations can have only a few owners. When a corporation “opens” it's capital, their stocks are traded in the capital market. After the IPO, the stocks are traded in the

Linear Production Function

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:12:11 +0000

Linear Production Function The linear production function describes a linear relationship between the inputs and the output. For example: Q = aL Q = aL + bK Chart: Returns to scale The linear production function has constant returns to scale. Proof: Y = aK + bL Y’ = a (cK) + b (cL)

Microeconomic Variables

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:18:21 +0000

Microeconomic Variables Microeconomic variables are factors or conditions that can change over the course of time, and can be used to describe or predict the behavior of individual economic units of study, like a business or a person. Examples of Microeconomic Variables

Microeconomics Definition

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:12:19 +0000

Microeconomics Definition Definition: Microeconomics is the study of the behavior of individual economic agents, like persons, households, and firms, in decision making and resources allocation among different alternative purposes. How does a hotel determine how much to charge for its rooms? Why some people use public transport and others use their cars? Well, friend, that's microeconomics.

National Income

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:13:17 +0000

National Income National income is the sum of the incomes of the owners of the production factors, belonging to a specific nationality and during a specific period of time. It doesn't include income generated by production factors that belong to foreigners, and it does include income generated abroad by nationals.

Natural Elements

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:25:34 +0000

Natural Elements Natural Elements are those elements that have been produced by nature, without the intervention of man. Examples of natural elements are: * Water * Sun * Wind * Geothermal energy * Animals * Plants * Fossil fuels *

Nominal Exchange Rate

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:16:00 +0000

Nominal Exchange Rate The nominal exchange rate is the number of units of the domestic currency that are needed to purchase a unit of a given foreign currency. It can also be seen as the price of an unit of foreign currency, in terms of the local currency.

Nostro Account

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:02:44 +0000

Nostro Account The term “nostro account” is used by banks, to refer to an account held in another bank. For example, if a bank in Mexico receives a lot of remittances from the United States, but doesn't not have a banking license to open a branch in the US, the Mexican bank (client) can reach an agreement with an American bank (facilitator). The American bank will open an account in the name of the Mexican bank, in US dollars.

Ordinary Shares

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 17:35:41 +0000

Ordinary Shares A share represents a part of the capital of a corporation. Corporations divide it's capital into shares. Thus, a share represents an indivisible unit of the capital of a corporation. There are several kinds of shares, most important are:

Ordinary shares
Preference shares.

Perpetual Resources

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:47:55 +0000

Perpetual Resources Perpetual resources are those elements that can be used by man to satisfy certain needs, and that cannot be exhausted. Perpetual resources are natural renewable resources: they are provided by nature without human intervention and they are renewable because they regenerate after it utilization. Examples of perpetual resources are:

Price Elasticity of the Demand

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 16:57:23 +0000

Price Elasticity of the Demand It is the relative change of the quantity demanded in relation to the relative change of the price. ΔQd/Qd / ΔP/P Graphically: Usually, when the price increases, the quantity demanded decreases. Thus, the price elasticity of the demand is negative.

Primary Market

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 09:11:33 +0000

Primary Market Part of the capital market where new financial instruments are sold and bought. An instrument can be sold only once in the primary market. Funds raised in the primary market go directly to the issuer (the government or a corporation). When a company issues stocks in the capital market for the first time, the sale is called initial public offering (

Production Function Example

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 07:59:32 +0000

Production Function Example 1- Example of a Cobb Douglas Production Function The Cobb Douglas Production Function is widely used in economic models. It takes the following form: Q(L,K) = A Lβ Kα L:labor K:capital Q:output A>0 0<α<1 0<β<1

Production Function

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:48:53 +0000

Production Function Relationship between the output and the combination of factors used to obtain it, in an economic activity. Production Function Examples During all the examples, Q is the output quantity per time period and L and K are the inputs quantities per time period.

Proof of the Law of Cosines

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:05:51 +0000

Proof of the Law of Cosines Statement For a triangle with sides , , and , and angle between sides and , the Law of Cosines states: ---------- Proof We construct the proof by splitting the triangle into two right-angled triangles. Drop a perpendicular from the vertex opposite side

Secondary Market

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:21:49 +0000

Secondary Market Is the part of the capital market where investment instruments are resold. An asset bought in the primary market can be resold in the secondary market. An asset can be sold and bought several times in the secondary market. See also Primary Market Nostro Account

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Examples of Substitute Goods

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 11:37:06 +0000

Examples of Substitute Goods Substitute Goods are those goods that can be used to satisfy the same necessity. Substitute Goods have a positive cross elasticity of demand. That is, when the price of one good increases, the quantity demanded of the other good increases, because the user can

Substitute Goods

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 11:46:24 +0000

Substitute Goods What are Substitute Goods? Substitute Goods are those goods that can be used to satisfy the same necessity. Substitute goods have positive cross elasticity of demand. When the price of one good increases, the quantity demanded of the other good increases, because the user can substitute one good for another.

Types of Elasticity

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:48:49 +0000

Types of Elasticity The elasticity is the relative change of the value of a function in relation to the relative change on the value of an input. In economics, supply and demand functions have several inputs: the price of the good, the price of other goods and the income.

¿What is an Investment Project?

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:28:14 +0000

¿What is an Investment Project? An investment project is a proposal of a long term allocation of funds with the objective of generating future profits. Time frame: An investment project differs from the execution of the investment. The project is made before the execution.

Which of the following is a renewable resource?

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 14:44:53 +0000

Which of the following is a renewable resource? * Water? * Fish? * Wind? * Fossil Fuel? * Wood? * Natural Gas? Answers Water Drinkable water can be a renewable resource as long as its use is not greater than it's renewal rate and as long as the water stock is not contaminated. It can be renewable because it has a rain cycle. In some places, water could become non renewable