Policy studies

Management of liabilities at General Motors is guided by a stated liability policy, market trends and present liabilities structures. Additionally, choice of the transaction is necessary for the modifications of exposure to interest rate. Considering the business of GM has both sides of demand and supply, interest rate changes such as an increase may lead to increased borrowing costs on the part of the General Motors. Interest rates increases may also cause hiked auto loans on the part of…

Clearly, inflation is the most important factor Brazil considers when determining what economic decisions to make. When inflation is on the rise, historically the central bank of Brazil raises interest rates in order to control inflation. Due to this policy, Interest rates in Brazil have generally been higher than the…

There are two types of Forex merchants: People who make money. Others. What separates them? It's not the brain or the knowledge. So many smart people are losing money in Forex trading. Often the problem lies in the mismanagement of money - which delays the loss of trades too much or generates profits too soon. Successful traders have long lost Forex currency trading in the three commandments of Forex Trading. The first commandment: Calculate the risk-reward ratio The first thing to consider in…

that there was a link between the psychological and physiological aspects of human behaviour, and hence that the environment a person existed in was fundamental to their actions and behaviours. Because of this, Hobson was intrinsically opposed to any policy which did not improve the wellbeing of the individual and the society, such as unemployment and increasing inequality. Hobson firmly believed in the fundamental ideal of intrinsic altruism, that people would, in the absence of all other…

Over the years, the United States has seen stagnant wages while productivity has increased. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs due to corporate greed exploiting cheaper labor overseas. This exploitation of cheap labor has created an unemployed reserve, which has weakened working union’s bargaining power. A solution to structural employment would be ensuring the wealthy pay their fare of taxes to stimulate social programs, change government spending, promote cooperative businesses…

Linking cash transfer to Herbert Simon’s bounded rational theory (Group component): The government of India had actually three policy choices to be made - Policy 1- whether to completely go for cash transfer for all the social welfare programs (including for food distribution). Policy 2- whether to continue with the existing “in kind” subsidies and no cash transfer. Policy 3- whether to partially go for cash transfer for some benefits like scholarship, old age pension etc and continue…

In China, the Tang Dynasty was deciding on what tax system they should use. They had two options: the once a year tax or the twice a year tax. The once a year tax would be collected once a year. The twice a year tax would be collected twice a year. Lu Zhi wrote a memorial against the twice a year tax and Lu Zhi had a good point. The taxes in China went towards anything the government needed fixed or replaced. China’s government depended on the people paying the taxes to get out of debt…

were forced into restructuring their human resource management. Sony was one of many companies that were subject to change their human resources drastically in the early 1990s. Using the concepts and theories we learnt in class, we would like to study the case of Sony’s reconstructing in 2008, comparing the changes…

education policy. However, the move towards increasing federal oversight and control over education made significant progress beginning in 1970s following decades of tension between the federal and state governments in regards to who has the power to dictate education decisions. The move for increased federal control spurned out of multiple Supreme Court decisions that recognized…

other central banks to raise their policy rates away from zero. As recently as last December, Fed Chair Yellen was confident the federal funds rate could be raised without causing…