Financial Market Offenses and Crimes Against the State in the US
Course material - 6 pages - Economic politics
The French AMF is an independent public authority. It is made of two distinct bodies (the board and the enforcement committee), there is no hierarchy, board members cannot be members of the enforcement committee at the same time. The AMF is in charge of overseeing the protection of savings...
Counterfeiting - Business process and government response
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Economic politics
The creation of a fake replica to replace an original form of an object is illegal and referred to as counterfeiting. This action is often perpetrated to take advantage of the monetary gain by exchanging an object of greater quality with something of inferior quality. Counterfeiting has been...
The treatment of killing acquisitions by GAFAM : Antitrust implications
Case study - 5 pages - Economic politics
In recent years, antitrust authorities have identified "killer" acquisitions as a particular problem for the tech industry. A "killer" acquisition is often described as the acquisition of a small, innovative startup by a large, well-established company. Typically, a startup has limited or no...
Country Risk: Fiscal Policy and Public Debt
Course material - 6 pages - Economic politics
Governments refer to (elected) people who form the administrative body of a country. They are important because they take into account externalities and finance public goods (which the private sector would not want/manage to finance). Their objectives are : education, national defense, low...
How does the measures taken by Erdogan these last two decades impact the lira's exchange rate nowadays?
Essay - 3 pages - Economic politics
Turkey began the new millennium in 2000 with the most severe economic crisis of its history. This crisis, which followed the currency crisis of 1994, had a strong impact on the Turkish financial system, as it led to a fall in capital inflows coming from foreign investors. This striking event is...
How should Brazil tackle poverty and inequalities?
Essay - 6 pages - Economic politics
In an article written in French and titled "La lutte contre les inégalités au Brésil : une analyse critique de l'action du gouvernement de Lula" (2011), researcher Mylène Gaulard attempts to highlight the chronic inability of Brazilian public authorities to resolve the two most...
Impact of Monetary Policy on South African inequality
Case study - 5 pages - Economic politics
In 1994 the first democratic elections in South Africa brought about the promise of equal opportunity and overall improvement of living standards. However, 26 years later the high levels of South African inequality still remain. This level of inequality has been institutionalised in the economy...
