Public policy

Political transition as a product of public democratic will has driven most of the changes within the last six months in Argentina. In November 2015, President Mauricio Macri won the second round runoff general election against Daniel Scioli. Scioli, the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, was viewed as the successor to Argentina’s previous president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Macri’s election was a referendum by Argentinian citizens against the populist policies of Fernandez and…

sub-prime market crisis. The whole affair, however, was handled much more cautiously with the public being given no serious indication towards the extent of IKB’s plight. The rationale for this type of secrecy, in the event where wide-spread panic has not yet occurred, was set out in a speech by Eddie George, Governor of the Bank of England in 1994 (cited in Financial Stability Review, 1999, p.…

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Ticket scalping has been around for many years and is defined as ‘an unsanctioned ticket investor who purchases tickets to an event and resells them at raised prices.’ The action to ‘scalp’ has been referenced as early as 1869 in American English to theater tickets but mostly to that of the 19th century referencing railway tickets. A scalper was a common utterance for “con man or cheater” in the late 19th century. (Scalper) The second-hand market grew exponentially as opportunists realized they…

with hopes to assure investors that their deposits were safe. Kevin Hassett from the American Enterprise Institute states, “For 94 years, the Fed has been the central bank of the United States. Its primary duties are conducting the nation’s monetary policy, supervising and regulating banks, and providing financial services and liquidity (that is, ready cash) to depository institutions and the federal government.” The basis for the creation of the Federal Reserve includes four parts:. To create…

If you ran a lemonade stand in the desert and one day a bus broke down in front of it, and you were the only place to get a drink for miles, it would quickly be called the Lemonade Bubble. As the amount of lemonade available dwindled for the thirsty customers waiting in line, some people would quickly began offering more money for the same glass. The seller would quickly raise the price and as soon as a replacement bus arrived the bubble would burst. If everyone on the bus only had five dollars…

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I have insight into the public’s perception on many foreign policy issues, especially after the presidential election. I also understand how the media report international policies, which in turn can greatly influence the public’ opinion of policies. Along with my background, my commitment to service fits with School of International Service’s philosophy of service and innovation. Throughout college I interned…

2.1 The Rational Expectations Hypothesis The rational expectations hypothesis is the hypothesis that, when forming expectations about any variable, people will make optimal use of the available information. This information includes the actual value of certain variables and, more widely, the nature or structure of the world in which people are operating. Let the value a variable ‘y’ takes in period t depend upon, or be a function f (.) of, the value of other variables, x1, x2 and x3 have…

announcements and by doing so, they are now able to infer how markets react to news and how order flow helps impound public and private information into prices. Also, markets tend to have a higher reaction to announcements when the surprise is higher. The surprise also has a key role on traders. Indeed, Evans (2008) argue that dealers may revise their quotes in response to new public information that arrives via macroeconomic…