INSTITUTE OF ACCOUNTANCY ARUSHA IN COLLABORATION WITH COVENTRY UNIVERSITY (UK) Master of Science in Finance and Investment 2011/12 M11EFA Behavioural Finance Coursework Assignment INSTRUCTION 1) This assignment has THREE QUESTIONS. Students are required to choose ONE QUESTION and answer it. 2) This assignment is an INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT. 3) The assignment carries a total weight of 50 MARKS. 4) Students are expected to use academic journal articles to answer these questions. Wikipedia and Investopedia
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The Big Short by Michael Lewis is about the lives of a few investors that foresaw the biggest credit bubble Wall Street has ever seen. Reading the Big Short has taught me a lot about subprime mortgages and credit default swaps. Before I read this book I had no idea what subprime mortgages even were‚ much less that there was such thing as betting against them. Lewis addresses the fact that most people on Wall Street have no clue what they are actually doing. This is evident with how the market
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diversification strategies they are not always as successful. Time Warner‚ one of the largest media companies in the world tried to diversify their business by stepping into unknown territory in 2000. When Time Warner purchased AOL at the peak of the dotcom bubble era‚ they had no idea that they were going to lose billions of dollars due to the acquisition. In 1994‚ Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com‚ and in 1995 the website went online. Before Amazon.com was founded‚ Jeff Bezos was paying very close attention
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military‚ who did not foresee the impact it would have on today’s society. Commercially the internet started to catch on 1995 and as everything new‚ it meant an untapped market and from here the rise of the speculators. The Dot Com bubble started on April 1997 when access to the internet expanded with online retailing being one of its biggest propellers and when big investors plunged into the newly discovered market. With the investment came the stock value rise‚ NASDAQ value went
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School of Information Technology IT7356 Information Systems in Management Semester Research Paper Weighting 30% of total course mark Due Dates Research Paper: (30%) Friday 17 October 2013 Plagiarism Plagiarism is not accepted. Included in the definition of plagiarism are: deliberately copying the work of another student; copying directly from any published work without using quotation marks; failing to acknowledge sources used in submitted assignments with proper citation
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Strong racing brand has positive effects in US market. Low investment needed as we can increase the distribution by dealer agreements. Risks: Disadvantaged by current manufacturing locations in Europe. Huge Logistics costs. US in recession with dotcom bubble. Introduce new bike segment for Women. Benefits: Attractive new customer base. High market growth potential. Use of existing technology with low seat height is an advantage for Ducati to market new products to Women. Achieve economies of scale
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to the spread of the Windows operating system. This comparison is disappointing and irrelevant. The next one is the rise of the internet brought about by the public offering of Netscape stock in 1995. This was a huge factor that contributed to dotcom bubble. It triggered global interconnectedness and made cities across continents next door neighbours. The other flatteners described in the book are workflow software which enables work sharing and the development of virtual applications that allows
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took place when the US was enjoying a robust GDP growth and a declining rate of unemployment. For this reason‚ the slide in the economy is a bit puzzling. 4) Unlike in 2001-02‚ when the Fed’s policy arrested the recessionary trend following the dotcom bubble burst‚ in this occasion the Fed’s policy have failed to arrest the economic slide. . Growth of the subprime market Subprime lending consists of loans
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Global imbalances‚ Reserve currency‚ and Global economic governance The accepted hypotheses for the root cause of global economic imbalances are: 1) East Asian economies’ export-led growth: recently the integration with international markets leads to an import and export expansion making the trade surpluses in EA dramatically increase. It had a great success in EA producing higher living standards and poverty rates declining. This cannot be the main cause for the emergence of large global imbalances
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