The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) states that all available information is immediately reflected in the price of any asset or financial instrument, so that it is impossible to predict its future values, making it follow a pure stochastic process. Among all financial markets, FOREX is usually addressed as one of the most efficient. This paper te...
Strong action must be taken to achieve the UK’s target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. From a financial perspective, this will require a combination of carbon taxation, regulation and direct government intervention, and the willingness of the public to adapt will be crucial. This paper reviews the options available and calls for wide ranging ...
Published in Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundAttention to evidence-informed policy has grown; however, efforts to strengthen the quality and use of evidence are not starting from a blank slate. Changes in health architectures and financing pose different considerations for investments in evidence-informed policy than in the past. We identify major trends that have shifted the enviro...
The financial sector has a hidden, but dramatic effect on Hollywood: three institutional investors hold the largest investment stakes in nearly all major companies; corporate venture capital has arisen within every entertainment conglomerate; and private equity firms have enacted leveraged buyouts of companies in all sectors, including production, ...
This paper develops the generalized causality algorithm and applies it to a multitude of data from the fields of economics and finance. Specifically, our parameter-free algorithm efficiently determines the optimal non-linear mapping and identifies varying lead&ndash / lag effects between two given time series. This procedure allows an elastic adjus...
La compréhension du capitalisme est :l'actionnaire est propriétaire des moyens de production et les met à disposition des salariés qui travaillent avec pour produire et mettre à disposition des biens et des services ; pour leur travail les salariés sont rétribués en salaire et pour sa mise à disposition des moyens de production l'actionnaire est ré...
This paper contends that carving out pathways to finance the sustainable development goal (SDG) agenda entails to reconsider tacit assumptions regarding the functioning of financial systems. We first use a history of economic thought perspective to demonstrate the flaws of the loanable fund theory, which has come to underlie SDG finance strategies....
V diplomskem delu je predstavljena celovita analiza poslovanja podjetja Generali leta 2007, ki je bilo zadnje leto predkriznega obdobja, in v pokriznem obdobju od leta 2015 do leta 2018. Zavarovalnica Generali spada v zasebni sektor, kar pomeni, da je njeno delovanje odvisno od sredstev, ki jih pridobi oziroma ustvari sama. S tega vidika naslavlja ...
This article explains how the liberation of finance from the Bretton Woods constraints imposed after World War II has shaped the resulting &ldquo / neoliberal&rdquo / political economy into a political economy that is inhospitable, if not hostile, to the kind of regulation and public investment necessary to address the climate emergency and other e...
