Shadow Banking CEPR‚ October 4‚ 2010 Tobias Adrian‚ FRBNY* with Zoltan Pozsar‚ Adam Ashcraft‚ Hayley Boesky *The views expressed in this presentation are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. What Are Shadow Banks? • Shadow banks are financial entities that conduct either all three or any one of the classic bank functions: 1. credit transformation‚ 2. maturity transformation‚ 3. liquidity
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room / Lack of Ethics Enron at one time was a Fortune 500 company‚ but in truth it was just a fallacy and a lie for what it truly was‚ an ethically bankrupt company that eventually became a bankrupt company. Henry Taylor‚ a 19th century statesman wrote “Falsehood ceases to be falsehood‚ when the truth is not expected to be spoken”. Enron senior management gets a failing grade on truth and disclosure. The purpose of ethics is to enable recognition of how a particular
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Tiffany and Co Case study Case Agenda Is blue box packing a great strategy? Given that spending in the luxury retail market has demonstrated resilience during and post recessionary times‚ how can Tiffany continue to grow? Will it be able to maintain a prominent brand in future? Company History Timeline 1837: Founded in New York by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John F. Young: The Blue Box introduced 1910-1940’s: 57th street and Fifth Avenue Flagship store 2000: Tiffany and Co. foundation established
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but the maximum length of your writeup is 10 pages‚ not including a cover page and illustrations. You may add as many charts‚ graphs or illustrations as you need to reinforce your analysis. 1. Please use a font size of 11 or 12. Also‚ submit your case as a Word document not a PDF. This is easier for me to make comments on your case. Case Study #1 SodaStream EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SodaStream‚ a manufacturer of home carbonation machines that allows consumers to make their own bubbly beverages‚ may hold the key in disrupting industry giants like
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Assignment 1 Feb 4‚ 2013 Tanglewood Stores Case Study Current Environment Assessment Due to fast growth rate and purchasing of smaller companies‚ legacy procedures are still found in HR practices among stores. Current polices and procedures managing the human asset must resonant with original mission statement. Competitors The competitor list would be any company that does business in non-durable general retail industry. Specifically‚ listed in the case study has Kohl’s
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Case Study What personality (or character) type does Hank display according to Freudian Theory? Hank displays Oral personality type according to Freudian Theory. Why do you think so? I believe Hank displays Oral personality characteristics due his preoccupation with eating and smoking. At what stage is Hank Fixated‚ according to the Freudian perspective? I believe hank becomes fixated at the Oral stage‚ which occurs from birth to one year of age. Find evidence of fixation in the case study? Evidence
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time allowing the reader to better understand the mind of the characters. This is demonstrated with the characters of Cinderella‚ in the different versions of Cinderella in the classic Fairy Tales‚ as well as with Isabelle Marie‚ in Mad Shadows. In Mad Shadows‚ the main character Isabelle Marie is deemed “ugly” by her mother‚ and for this reason is treated as virtually a slave and made to tend to the needs of her mother and more beautiful brother Patrice‚ who gets all of their mothers attention
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THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN - Sean O’Casey The Shadow of a Gunman is the first play in Sean O’Casey’s Dublin trilogy‚ first performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1923 James Joyce’s Ulysses had been published the year before. It is set in 1920‚ as the War of Independence rages. The other two Dublin plays are Juno and the Paycock [Peacock]‚ and The Plough and the Stars‚ the latter of which caused a riot when first performed at the Abbey because nationalists in the audience resented O’Casey’s hostile
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Enrons Fall Kenneth Lay – CEO Auditors – Arthur Anderson Jeffrey Skilling – Consultant‚ Hired as a young consultant‚ as due to deregulation‚ Enron incurred massive debts. Jeffrey skilling was hired to come up with innovative new ideas. His revolutionary idea for Enron was to ‘create a gas bank in which Enron would buy gas from a network of suppliers and sell to a network of consumers‚ contractually guaranteeing both the supply and the price‚ charging fees for the transactions and assuming the
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even forced to enter bankruptcy. Enron is one of the biggest examples of when making business ethical decisions go wrong. An American energy‚ commodities‚ and services company based in Houston‚ Texas Enron was a big deal. Employing approximately 20‚000 staff and was being one of the world’s leading electricity‚ natural gas‚ communications‚ and pulp and paper companies. Enron was a company on top on of the reason the fall was so drastic. Since Enron was the largest corporation contributor to
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