The Economics of White-Collar Crime: An Economic Analysis of Insider Trading in Canada Introduction In the past decade‚ white-collar crime such as illegal insider trading‚ banking fraud‚ ponzi schemes‚ corporate embezzlement and political money laundering has reached an all-time high. In North America alone‚ respected and highly influential individuals such as Martha Stewart‚ Bernie Madoff‚ and Conrad Black have been prosecuted for their crimes and companies such as Fannie Mae and AIG were
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say‚ returns that are different from what one might expect them to be based on various characteristics of the investment—by identifying so-called “inefficiencies” in the stock market. Perhaps one of the most well-known strategies for taking advantage of these inefficiencies‚ a strategy widely discussed in academic as well as industry literature‚ is following the trades of company insiders. In the United States‚ company insiders are required to report to the SEC any time they engage in a purchase or
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Sprint is now organized around three major divisions - one focused on individual (consumer) customers‚ one focused on business customers‚ and one focused on its local telephone service (for both residential and small business customers). Sprint offers an extensive range of innovative communication products and solutions‚ including global IP‚ wireless‚ local and multi-product bundles. A Fortune 100 company with more than $27 billion in annual revenues in 2004‚ Sprint is widely recognized for developing
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Eastwind Trading Company. The potential opportunity and long term sustainability of Eastwind Trading Company lies in the uniqueness of their product. The Swanson pearls are the only remaining collection of handmade freshwater pearl buttons in the world. The amount is limited and cannot be easily duplicated due to current environmental condition. Therefore‚ the fact that no one else carries these types of buttons is the main competitive advantage the Eastwinds Trading Company posses. This exclusiveness
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Film Comedy: Trading Places Student’s Name University Affiliation Date Film Comedy: Trading Places Movies are created with the intention of entertaining all the while sending a message to the society. The producers therefore have the duty of making sure that the work is not tangential to the original situation as much as possible. The different ways in which they declare the best way of sending the message to the community defines the genre of the movie. It could either be a drama‚ mystery
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Server 8‚ they match up pretty well. Here’s the short comparison: Maximums Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 8 Vmware vSphere 5 Physical Machine Hardware 160 logical CPUs‚ 2TB RAM 160 logical CPUs‚ 2TB RAM Virtual Machine Hardware 32 virtual CPUs‚ 512GB RAM 32 virtual CPUs‚ 1TB RAM Virtual Machines per Cluster 4000 3000 Physical Machines per Cluster 63 32 Although this is a short comparison it doesn’t give much of the technical issues IT would need to face from implementing either one; like
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High frequency trading According to Wikipedia‚ high frequency trading is a type of algorithmic trading which uses sophisticated technological tools and computer algorithms to rapidly trade securities. ! High frequency trading is a quantitative trading. It produces very small profits in each trade but huge profits when it has a large volume. The ability to process a large volume of information by computer contributes to HFT. Computerized quantitative models make all the decisions in a rapid
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BIOLOGY- VIRTUAL LAB DAYS P. Aurelia grown alone‚ cells/mL P. Caudatum grown alone‚ cells/mL P. Aurelia grown in mixed culture‚ cells/mL P. Caudatum grown in mixed culture‚ cells/mL DAY 0 1 1 1 1 DAY 2 6 4 4 6 DAY 4 27 14 17 12 DAY 6 42 24 33 10 DAY 8 49 30 39 8 DAY 10 49 30 43 4 DAY 12 49 30 48 2 DAY 14 49 30 48 0 DAY 16 48 30 47 0 Make a hypothesis about how you think the two species of Paramecium will grow alone and how they will grow when they are grown together. When 2 species of paramecium
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Name Section______________________________ Virtual Lab: Enzyme Controlled Reactions Worksheet Go to the following website to complete the virtual lab: http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs_2K8/pages/EnzymeControlledReactions.html Due: Wednesday‚ March 28‚ 2012 during your respective lab time 1. Which of the following does NOT apply to an enzyme: a. Catalyst b. Inorganic c. Protein d. All of the above apply to an enzyme 2. When an enzyme catalyzes a reaction: a. Substrate(s)
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Virtual Child Paper: Nature vs. Nurture I have always held the belief that Nature v Nurture is not a zero-sum game. To steal a line from T.S. Elliot’s The Hollow Men‚ I believe humans are born into this world a “shape without form.” That shape‚ of course‚ is our nature; the sum of our genetic make-up and natural tendencies based on some combination of predisposition and innate sense of self. The form‚ then‚ necessarily reflects our experiences and the
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