BRIBERY SCANDAL AT SIEMENS AG Abstract: This case discusses the bribery scandals that were unearthed at Siemens AG (Siemens) in 2006 and 2007. There were a series of scandals that involved some of the company’s employees bribing foreign officials to gain contracts and creating slush funds for this purpose. In another case‚ the company was accused of bribing labor representatives on the supervisory board in order to gain their support for its policies. After the German authorities conducted raids
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- Financial flows Deregulation of financial markets (less rules and regulations in currency markets and foreign investment) led to a rapid increase in FDI and portfolio investment. Investment makes economies more integrated as economic changes in one country influence others (CONTAGION e.g. negative effects such as the GFC and the EDC or positive effects such as new technology and booming economies). The main benefits are that it enables countries to finance their domestic economy even if domestic
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Question 1: What is the significance of the pollution from plastic bags? What is the scale of this pollution problem compared to other forms of pollution? Answer: Pollution from plastic bags or bottles has involvement from the accumulated products made of plastic which in turn adversely affect the environment which consists of wildlife‚ and humans. It can affect lands‚ waterways like oceans and rivers. The biggest prominent factor for usage of plastic bags is due to inexpensiveness and durability
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exchange rate is said to overshoot when its immediate response to a disturbance is greater than its long-run response. Exchange rate overshooting is an important phenomenon because it helps explain why exchange rates move so sharply from day to day. The economic explanation of overshooting comes from the interest parity condition. Question 4 (a) Using the AA/DD framework‚ explain the separate effects of a temporary monetary expansion and a temporary fiscal expansion on the exchange rate‚ output and
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gaps in income levels may have had a hand as well. Numerous factors have led to the protests‚ including issues such as dictatorship or absolute monarchy‚ human rights violations‚ political corruption (demonstrated by Wikileaks diplomatic cables)‚ economic decline‚ unemployment‚ extreme poverty‚ and a number of demographic structural factors‚ such as a large percentage of educated but dissatisfied youth within the population. Also‚ some - like Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek - name the 2009–2010
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science and technology‚ the growth of productive forces and people’s life getting better. More and more people need to use internet. Because of that ALIBABA will gets more potential consumers. Online trade will be more and more popular. 2. Economic environment: there are numbers of minor enterprises were grew up after Chinese government start to set up market economy. They need to build new markets. But they can’t get enough information about their competitors or products. Information asymmetry
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Analyse the effects of changes in the exchange rate of the Australian dollar (against other currencies) on the Australian economy. Fluctuations in the exchange rate of the Australian dollar can have significant implications on the Australian economy. The exchange rate is the price of one currency in terms of another economy’s currency. Typically in the case of Australia‚ the Australian dollar is measured in terms of the US dollar. Changes in the exchange rate‚ whether the alteration is an appreciation
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Demand‚ Supply and Price Market Buyers- households/demanders Suppliers- producers/firms Demand-The ability and willingness to buy specific quantities of good at alternate prices in a given time period Or the desire to buy a product‚ which is backed up by willingness and ability to pay for the it. • Quantity demanded- the amount of a product that the consumers wish to purchase. • Demand schedule- a table which shows the quantities of a good‚ a consumer is willing and able to buy at alternate
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global market for goods and services across geopolitical boundaries. Global sourcing often aims to exploit global efficiencies in the delivery of a product or service. These efficiencies include low cost skilled labor‚ low cost raw material and other economic factors like tax breaks and low trade tariffs. Common examples of globally sourced products or services include: labor-intensive manufactured products produced using low-cost Chinese labor‚ call centers staffed with low-cost English speaking workers
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each of these sectors are commonly termed consumption expenditures‚ investment expenditures‚ government purchases‚ and net exports. Aggregate expenditures (AE) are a cornerstone in the study of macroeconomics‚ playing critical roles in Keynesian economics‚ aggregate market analysis‚ and to a lesser degree‚ monetarism. In particular‚ aggregate expenditures are combined with the price level as aggregate demand. Aggregate expenditures are the total expenditures on gross domestic product. These expenditures
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