A Comparative Analysis Of Competition And Anti-Trust Law For The Major Industrialized Nations

Global investments have grew tremendously in the recent years. As a result, mergers and acquisitions are becoming a daily occurrences. To achieve their goals, multinational corporations have to go through the process of filing for permissions with the various antitrust authorities in various countries with different rules and regulations. This paper deals with the antitrust laws and rules and regulations in the three major regions in which most mergers occurs. The regions and countries under consideration are the United States of America, Japan and the European Union

Financing The Firm: Venture Capital And Initial Public Offerings

Venture capital and initial public offerings have been the backbone of the development of new business firms for many years. However, the recent abnormal growth of stock market in the 1990s, especially the creation of the many new technology firms, has boosted venture capital formation and initial public offerings. This paper intends to shed light on the type and formation of the IPOs in 1999-­2000, including the process involved, the stages of capital funding, the allotment pricing, and the risk and effects of flipping.  It concludes with a brief discussion of the three new and successful IPOs

A Comparative Analysis Of Global Pension Tax Arbitrage

In a company with defined benefit plans, pension assets often represent a sizable portfolio of financial assets.  The intention is to examine whether pension tax arbitrage has the potential to add value to the sponsoring corporation with secondary benefits to plan participants, through a less volatile pension fund. To implement the arbitrage, it is recommended that the plans shift all assets to bonds.  Replacing stocks with bonds reduces the risk of the firm, and the benefit stems from the creation of an additional tax deduction on the payment of interest with no increase in firm risk

The MNCS Global Ethics And Social Responsibility: A Strategic Diversity Management Imperative

A multinational corporation’s (MNC) ethical and social responsibility issues must be an integral part of its strategic management process.  The MNC headquarters (HQ) must decide on its core ethical and social responsibility values and priorities, and, it should empower its foreign units to formulate their specific programs and strategies to respond to changing host countries’ environments

Financial Analysis Of Information Security Breaches*

Each year, due to hacker attacks and virus infections billions of dollars are wasted. The impacts are globally felt and are not restricted to a single industry or agency, but it includes academia, individual, industry, and government agencies. In fact, hackers and viruses are becoming more and more sophisticated and are increasingly harder to detect. In this paper an attempt has been made to present Internet security and vulnerability, security policies, financial impacts, remedies, and a model to evaluate the opportunity costs of variables involve in security breaches

A System Approach For Defining Data Center Value Proposition

Organizations invest heavily in IT infrastructure and the data center’s share of these investments is not marginal. Organizations face the challenge of justifying capital and operational spending on these facilities and often measuring the performance of data center is ignored. Performance measurements focus on analyzing the performance of servers and software applications rather than that of the impact of the data center on the organization. Various methods that have been currently used do not convey the actual value of the data center and do not provide accurate predications of its benefit and expected performance. This report introduces a method to define the value proposition of a data center using a set of metrics that provide measures for a number of variables that define the behavior and outcomes of a data center. An analysis of the data center behavior and outcome will provide a system model from which stakeholder value can be defined

Legal, Financial, and Economic Analysis of a Water Supply Bank in Idaho: a Preliminary Report

In this study we attempt to analyze, investigate and evaluate the feasibility of water banking as an institutional arrangement to encourage the efficient allocation of water within the framework of the agricultural irrigation districts of Southern Idah