return distribution of venture capital has a kurtosis of 23.25 and a skewness of 3.63‚ which means it is leptokurtic and skews to the right. It is not close to normal distribution. Mainly due to the high returns in late 1990s during the "Dot-Com" bubble. The return distribution buyouts have a kurtosis of 2.14 and a skewness of -0.48‚ which close to 3 and 0‚ respectively. It is close to normal distribution. b) Regression results: From the above result‚ we can see that R2 is 0.1991‚ which
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Rome wasn’t built in a day but over many; in time its historical roots have come to symbolize Western civilization’s most admirable human traits and values of the democratic ethos: hard work‚ sacrifice for the greater good and cooperation. Today‚ Rome’s neighboring country Greece is called to mind as the democratic ideal’s counterweight: the modern state of Greece has come to symbolize Western culture’s most human failings by way of its financial collapse. Modern-day Greece’s default must be recognized
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stock market. Also‚ they will figure out the causes of financial crisis or bank crashes in order to avoid the crises happen again in the coming days. The causes of banks crashes / financial crises Credit Bubble There are three main categories to possibly explain the term credit bubble: global capital flows‚ the reprising of risk and monetary policy 1. Global Capital Flows
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Amazon.com A case report prepared for MG 495 Business Policy
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The image this essay will consider is a sculpture titled “Michael Jackson and Bubbles” by the artist‚ Jeff Koons. The work is a life-sized porcelain sculpture of Michael Jackson in an extravagant costume with the chimpanzee Jackson named “Bubbles” seated on his lap in a matching costume. The image of Jackson and the chimp rest on a small raised dais and flowers are strewn around them on the dais. The sculpture was produced in 1988 and comes from a series of sculptures involving images and figures
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1- The term dot.com The term Dot COM (English .com) appeared before the explosion of bubble Internet to indicate‚ the madness which seized the “entreprenautes” to the evocation of three sesames of the E-trade: market‚ customers and Internet. A synonym of E-business. 2- The Internet Bubble The "dot-com bubble" sometimes referred to as the "I.T. bubble" was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 with its peak on March 10‚ 2000 with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132.52 during which stock markets
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I found to be most interesting were as follows: 8/9/95 – Netscape went public. Netscape released the first browser for public use and set up open transmission protocols so no company could dominate the Internet. This helped contribute to the dotcom boom in which the US accidentally overinvested $1 trillion over five years running fiber optic cable between countries and continents. The Internet drove down the cost of data transmission that helped level the playing field for all countries. This
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1.0 Introduction The 2007 collapse of the U.S. housing market and the worldwide economic damage that followed in 2008 and 2009 made people know the term "economic meltdown" (ehow.com‚ 2011). And the year 2011 proved to be a epic one in world history and brought dramatic change to many parts of the world - change that require cautious and serious analysis. International developments since World War II have drawn the nations of the world closer together in a global economy in which labour and capital
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Amazon’s Generic Strategies and Models Amazon originally applied a market niche strategy based on a narrow buyer segment and outcompeting rivals by offering niche of being an online bookseller hoping to become the largest bookseller. Today‚ Amazon has expanded into different segments of products and is not limited to books (Amazon.com). Amazon believed that change is only constant phenomenon that underlines the life today everywhere around the globe. The company had the generic strategy to try
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closer to each other the more time they spent together because they talked about personal issues with each other not just politics and they took a lot of pictures together when they were on the buses and planes. The media even called themselves a ‘ bubble’ because they were so close and they stuck together at most times. Although the media crew was documenting George Bush’s
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