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Study: The Impact of Information Technology (IT) on Market Efficiency in the North American Security Markets As discussed in the previous sections, security markets around the world are using information technology in a verity of applications, and they are computerized to different degrees. Prior to Freund and Pagano (2000), there has been little done in terms of studying the impact of using information technology on the efficiency of exchange markets. Also, there were not enough empirical…

TRADE SECRET A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, commercial method, or compilation of information not generally known or reasonably ascertainable by others by which a business can obtain an economic advantage over competitors or customers. A trade secret covers basically three aspects:- ● Not known to the public. ● Should generate economic profit to the holder (specifically for not being known by the public). ● Subject of reasonable efforts to maintain…

DiGi.Com Berhad is listed on Bursa Malaysia and is part of the Telenor Group, a worldwide telecommunications provider. The issued and paid-up share capital of DiGi is RM77, 750,000 comprising 777,500,000 ordinary shares of RM0.10 each and a market capitalization of about RM40.27 billion. There are four Independent Non-Executive Directors sitting in the Board of Directors and another four Non-Independent Non-Executive Directors including Chairman, Morten Karlsen Sorby. The Chief Executive Officer…

It is a waste of our money and can be used for better programs that benefit all the people not just a few. Government bailouts shouldn’t happen and companies that can’t succeed without government assistance should fall to the hands of the free market. The federal government has allocated billions of dollars to over 900 companies through the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 or TARP (Times, 2016). In a section of this bill it states that some of these companies are to repay the…

in a country that prides itself on its free market. Using 1520 Sedgwick as an example as well I will compare how the ideals of a free market economy would effect it with the realities of the situation. First of all, if the US was a true free market economy 1520 Sedgwick would never have been enrolled in the Mitchell-Lama program because such a system wouldn’t exist unless the government owned the property, which also would be contrary to a free market system. Following the fact that these…

Individual self interest in a free market economy can help but hurt the people in many ways. Milton Friedman, who was an economist, stated “Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of freedom itself.” It's good to have self interest or else we’d never help ourselves. But having a self interest in a free market economy can cause problems if that's all we're worried about is ourselves. A market economy is an economic system in which individuals own most of the resources; land,…

Rf = Risk-free rate. βi = Beta of the security i. E(Rm) = Expected return of the market. E(Rm) – Rf = Market premium. From the above equation, it is shown that the CAPM is an equilibrium model that specifies the relationship between the risk and the expected return for assets that is held in a well-diversified portfolio. Sharpe (1964) stated…

The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) is widely used to analyse the financial market and security prices. The EMH is efficient if public information is totally reflected by asset prices (Malkiel, 2003, p.59). Malkiel (2003, p.59) implies that information of stock market was exactly shown by security market. In the last ten years, the EMH had significant effect on the financial market. This essay aims to show the three main types of the EMH and analyses if the EMH works in the real market…

Industrial Revolution and Free Market After the civil war in the 1860’s, America’s population grew tremendously and almost tripled. In the latter years of the nineteenth century, the United States went through an industrial revolution that is known as the Second Industrial Revolution, the first being in Britain in the eighteenth century. During the revolution in America, huge industries began to control the economy. A few industrial titans took advantage of this free market economy. Wealth…

Economic theorists have used the existence of facts that demonstrate a set of market failures, such as externalities, monopoly power, and public goods, to justify government intervention to correct such failures. However, a similar set of facts can also demonstrate the market’s failure to exist, meaning that the very government intervention that was implemented to correct for the alleged market failures prevents a market solution to such a failure from emerging. Before and since the publication…