International Monetary Fund

Adding the risk-free government securities would result in a lower beta for the new portfolio. The new portfolio beta will be a weighted average of the individual security betas in the portfolio; the presence of the risk-free securities would lower that weighted average. q. The comment is not correct. Although the respective standard deviations and expected returns for the two securities under consideration are equal, the covariances between each security and the original portfolio…

attempted to study on Great Depression to gain a lesson. Friedman claimed that policy makers could not take proper actions depended on the radical changes in the international environment after the First World War ended. However, he only considered a single factor and excluded other important factors such as Customs Law and international monetary system. On the other hand, Samuelson advanced an opinion that chains of historical events were fortuitously coincided. However, his opinion did not…

Encouragement of Flows of Funds to Financial Market In order to encourage flows of fund to the money and bond market, Bank of Korea enlarged the scope of eligible collateral and eligible financial institution counterparties for its open market operations. In November and December of 2008, the bank included bank debentures and certain government agency bonds for use in open market operations, which were originally only Treasury bonds, government-guaranteed bonds and Monetary Stabilization…

period of in the 1930s. The crisis made economist and financial experts rethink monetary and fiscal policies. During this crisis, the government, economists and financial experts and other policy makers became victims of the unforeseen crisis. This study will investigate what monetary policies and fiscal policies caused the crisis. The paper will discuss the effects of implementation of both the fiscal and monetary policies in reaction to the crisis. Lastly, it shall evaluate whether the…

through the control they have on the monetary base (MB). Monetary base is the currency in circulation plus reserves, both which fall under the central bank’s liabilities but are on the asset side of other banks balance sheets. The importance of the monetary base on the money supply is that when the monetary base is increased, it will increase the money supply. In the reverse, a decrease in the monetary base will decrease the money supply. The Fed controls the monetary base through open…

The gold standard monetary system was in use from the 18th to 20th century. It is a system which economic units are based on a fixed quantity of gold. It was first used by the United Kingdom in 1717. The system offered price stability, a fixed exchange rate and free movement of gold. Other countries slowly began to see the advantages of the system, and by the end of the 1870’s, most industrial countries had followed the United Kingdom’s gold-backed exchange rate. 1873 marked the beginning of the…

1990s. Many economic decisions take longer than a few months to have a noticeable impact. Tax issues, frequently, don’t exhibit their full impact until well after the first year of compliance. Companies and individuals need time to adjust, acquire funds, and budget accordingly. Not directly related to the performance of Reagan’s administration or the US economy, but still…

during the 80’s that is still in place today is the Monetary Control Act of 1980. This Act consisted of 2 parts, which also includes the Depositary Institution Deregulation of 1980. Prior to the approval of this act, only the banks associated with the Federal Reserve were mandated to report deposits from the public and had a regulated interest rate, which placed them at a huge disadvantage due to the fact that the public was opting towards mutual funds in order to increase savings. As mentioned…

A Portfolio manager’s role in the mutual fund is to maximize the wealth of the investors, through investment of assets in stocks of corporations. Every citizen/corporation has a social responsibility towards the society in which he lives in. Similarly mutual funds have a responsibility towards the society in which it operates. By investing on companies, investors seek to promote the growth and development of the company in anticipation of good results. They thus play a role in promoting the…

Learning Team A Global Business Financial Environment ACC/300 Brandy Havens Alesia Batiste GM Motors uses SEC filings (US Securities and Exchange Commissions). Available-for-sale securities are one type of investment a company can make. Available-for-sale securities are any security not classified as a trading security or held to maturity security. These can either be debt or equity securities, however, the accounting is the same for each. An accountant must properly account and report…