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operations Chapter 1 – The foreign exchange -> Foreign exchange rates -> Participants -> Organization -> Theory of PPP Chapter 2 – Hedging foreign exchange risk with financial derivatives -> Currency swap -> Forward exchange -> Currency options -> COFACE guarantee -> Foreign exchange position Chapter 3 – Hedging interest rate risk -> Interest rate swap -> FRA -> CAP -> Floor -> Colla Glossary/ vocabulary - Anchor currency: Is a currency used by the central banks to establish

REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE WESTERN BALKANS - A KEY TO INTEGRATION INTO THE EUROPEAN UNION Antonija Petričušić* Summary: Impaired interethnic relations in the Western Balkan countries and the absence of multicultural policies proved to be major obstacles to stability, security and democracy in the 1990s. In attempting to identify what the security implications for enlargement are, the author argues that the EU should develop specific policies towards countries with a higher risk of ethnic tensions (e

a city in the Alps of southeastern France. The son of an accountant, he was a serious and hardworking student in his high school years. Although he failed on his first attempt to gain entry to the École Polytechnique, the training ground of France's business elite, he retook the entrance examinations the following year and was admitted. He did well in his studies, graduating from the school with high marks in 1976. Messier then attended the École Nationale d'Administration, or ENA, the traditional

What is the impact of the current economic crisis on developing countries ? The financial and now economical crisis was born in developed countries, more precisely in United States of America where it was initially illustrated by a real estate crisis. Rapidly “doubtful assets” from securitization of insolvent US household credits (=sub-primes) spread on the financial market, thus spreading the crisis worldwide. Medias such as television, newspapers or radio often speak about the effects

French Capitalism The end of the XX century is marked as the primacy of capitalism as an economic system. Nevertheless it is not question of one single capitalism, but distinct kind of capitalism according to the development steps reached. In other words capitalism of the Rhineland lived with the Anglo-Saxon and Asian capitalisms. France is not excluded from this phenomenon. Indeed, industry and finance sectors got through very significant changes. That’s why the former structures and organizations

Josephine Baker, the frenchiest American girl In 1925, during the jazz era in Paris, the sensational cast of musicians and dancers from Harlem, assembled as La Revue Nègre, exploded on the stage of the “Théâtre des Champs Élysées”. Its talented young star, Josephine Baker, captivated the audience with her “erotic dance” and a wild new dance called the Charleston. This show permitted her to became the high priestess of jazz culture and African art in Paris. Who was this artist which wore banana

time where it seemed to be clear that the development of international exchanges, of all natures, combine with the progressive modernization of economy, politic, and social of the planet, was going to create an obliteration of the differences between the cultures. Some were grieved, with the ideas that their rich traditions, customs, language would be lost in an afflicting uniformity, symbolized by the jeans and Coca Cola. Others were happy to see that a source of division, conflict and sometimes a

is and what the impact is of a central bank’s monetary policy. A yield curve is a curve which represents graphically the interest rate of same quality of credit bond related to a precise moment. The point is that those bonds have not the same date of maturity (long-term and short-term rates). The yield curve represents the price of what we can call “the price of liquidity renunciation”. The more the renunciation is on a long period (for an example a long-term bond); the more the interest rate

Point: an International Park………………………………………………….5 1) Cedar Fair Entertainment Company……………………………………………….5 a) Canada’s Parks……………………………………………………………………..6 b) United States Parks………………………………………………………………...7 2) Cedar Point History Park…………………………………………………………….8 a) Famous roller coasters from the amusement Park……………………………….9 b) The Corporate Team……………………………………………………………..….12 c) Cedar point Cornerstones………………………………………………………......12 3) QQOQCCP Analysis……………………………………………………………..…15 4) SWOT Analysis……………………………………………………………………

In 1803, the US were not a big power. They had just won their independence from Britain in 1783. It was therefore a fragile independence. The expedition was meant to enhance patriotism (→ American explorers also able to do great things like France or Britain) and to insure the defence of the American territory against Canada. Expedition was always connected to the rivalry between America and the boarder states. Relation Lewis and Clark / Indians → to what extent did the Americans lead a more