It is widely accepted today that Competition Law, in general, should be used by the authorities to ensure the pursuance of social economic welfare. Many different aspects of the commercial world have been scrutinised by Law, but few fields have evolved as much or for that matter provoked as much...

Having defined, on one hand, what the real dangers of derivatives are, and on the other hand, the observed changes from their predecessors , what are the main flaws of the new regulations, and how could they be improved? This paper analyses the risks and potential results of the European and US...

Research PurposeThis aim of this paper is to present a complete financial product. The Portfolio presented here invests in either an Alternative Energy portfolio or the S&P500 depending on the variations in price of the 2 months Oil Brent Forward.Research DesignBased on the research made in two...

Research Purpose: In order to build a financial product on a sound theoretical basis, I analysed the literature available on or related to the topic: “Alternative energy and Oil”. The aim is to verify the hypothesis of correlation between the variations of the price of oil and alternative...

Research Purpose: Terrorism is one of today's biggest challenges for the western world. A country can be put down to its knees, economies turned over by a bomb. Understanding the intricate links between financial markets and terrorism doesn't only allow us to anticipate the society's reaction...

How can Switzerland defend its bank secrecy? Is it legitimate?(El secreto bancario tiene más de una cara. Después de haber exisistido durante muchos años en paz, hoy se encuentra bajo el punto de mira: utilizado recientemente en una campaña política del PSOE en relación con la crisis...

Critical analysis on earlier work: "Virtual Pension Fund Creation: From Selection of Assets to Optimization" (Meyer 2010). Presented as in an external performance analysis: Separated between performance attribution and overall performance

My work is based on a fictional pension fund for GE, having to respect a few requirements from the fictional client.The thorough process of selecting the correct assets and building an optimal portfolio is described. The Risk-Reward Model used is based on a iteration programme

This paper contains a selection and review of the 25 most influential papers on the subject of “Financial Markets and Terror” using Hoepner, A. G. F. & McMillan, D. G. (2009) 'Influential Literature Analysis: A systematic review approach to the synthesis of voluminous research areas.'