This thesis examines the impact of exchange rate risk on asset pricing under varying market structures. To understand this effect, in the first part of the thesis the analytical derivation of an international asset-pricing model within a mean-variance framework is attempted. In the second part,...

The study was conducted to determine the key obstacles to strategy implementation at the Social Security Commission. The objective was to establish various factors that inhibit successful strategy implementation and explore alternative approaches that could be adopted to facilitate effective...

The document contains a commentary on the wider issues of responsibility raised by the collapse of First Solution Money Transfer. This was a UK based private limited company which provided a money transfer service, providing expatriates the facilities to transfer money back to their family in...

Presented at a workshop at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, this document explores the logistical solutions deployed within contemporary Hawala-style value transmission systems. It suggests that those frustrated by the lack of an effective global payments system for retial...

The paper, presented at a World Bank Conference on Migrant Remittances: development impact, opportunities for the financial sector and future prospects in London, 9th - 10th October 2003, examines the Hawala transactions by British labour migrants to South Asia, their region of origin.

Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit setzt sich mit der Entwicklung der Werbeeinnahmen des „Zweiten Deutschen Fernsehen“ in den Jahren von 1963 bis 2001 auseinander.Auf Grundlage einer genauen Analyse der Werbeeinnahmen dieser Jahre, wird darüber hinaus der Einfluss des 1984 eingeführten Dualen...

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, den empirisch gehaltlosen Charakter der modernen, neowalrasianischen Interpretation der 'unsichtbaren Hand' darzustellen und die bisher vernachl?ssigten Leistungen ausgew?hlter klassischer ?konomen zur Bestimmung dieser Metapher hervorzuheben. Anfangs-...