Essays about: "financial market failures"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 28 essays containing the words financial market failures.

  1. 21. Six Sigma strategy applied to the pharmaceutical industry : how customers benefit

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för management

    Author : Steven Roan; Maria Jernelid; [2009]
    Keywords : Six Sigma;

    Abstract : The pharmaceutical industry is extremely large, dynamic and a highly profitable industry. Pattison and Warren ( 2003, p 1 ) suggest that in 2002 the pharmaceutical industry pulled in profits that far exceed other industries and accounted for profits “ five-and-a-half times greater than the median for all industries represented in the Fortune 500”. READ MORE

  3. 22. Big Bang, Bailouts and Bank Failures : A Study of Japanese Government Intervention During the 1990’s Banking Crisis and Parallels with the 2007-09 US Subprime Mortgage Crisis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Felix Choo; [2009]
    Keywords : Japan; US Subprime Mortage Crises; government intervention; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The current financial crisis the US and the world finds itself embroiled in has all of the markings of a once-in-a-generation type of economic contraction. In times like these, it is natural to search for comparable frames of reference; Japan’s own banking crisis during the “lost decade” of the 1990’s provides significant parallels to the current state of affairs. READ MORE

  4. 23. Implementation of Simulators at Sandvik Chile – “Practice Makes Perfect”

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Produktionsekonomi

    Author : Jacob Sandberg; [2009]
    Keywords : Simulators; Implementation; Sandvik Mining and Construction; Standard Rate Per Day; Payback; Proposed Implementation Period; Net Present Value; Benchmarking; Value Constellation; Service in action.; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : With a current financial crisis and a tough competitive environment, all units and departments within the companies have to keep up with the market and its demands. Every time Sandvik sells a machine to a mining company, the buyer faces the fact that they normally have to educate their operators from scratch. READ MORE

  5. 24. Market structure, interest rates and the risk of financial contagion: An examination of the Swedish overnight market

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Johanna Eklund; [2009]
    Keywords : Interbank market; Market structure; Financial contagion; Systemic risk;

    Abstract : The current financial crisis has demonstrated the importance of well functioning interbank markets for the financial system. However, as interbank exposures are often uncollateralized and of large amounts these markets constitute a channel through which financial contagion can spread. READ MORE

  6. 25. On the Valuation of ‘Big Pharma’s’ Research Pipelines

    University essay from Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling

    Author : Martin Löfqvist; [2009]
    Keywords : Big Pharma; Clinical Trials; Econometrics; Valuation; Research and Development;

    Abstract : Background: Tougher demands from regulators on drugs efficiency and safety,governmental cost cutting and more complex areas of research, has led to that the importance of the pharmaceutical industry’s research pipelines are increasing. Even though the capital markets views on the pharmaceutical industry and its valuation is changing, the authors is not aware of any prior research that has been conducted on the topic of how the market reacts to clinical trial results or how security analysts valuates product pipelines. READ MORE