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The Fallout From a Potential Eurozone Breakup Executive Summary: Today, the global economic crisis is centered around the struggles of the European Union to protect its very existence. At the start of its second decade of existence, the common currency form of the Euro, shared by 17 of the European Union's 27 member states, is imperiled by the threat that some of its struggling member might depart from the Eurozone. With a particular focus on Greece, which balanced the question of its status in

I. Introduction According to Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “The Balance of Payment” (BOP) is a statement used by a country to summarize an economy’s transactions with the rest of the world by both private and public sectors for a specified time period, usually every quarter or year. It is known as “Balance of International Payment”, it involves all transactions between a country’s residents and its non-residents involving goods, services and income, financial claims on and liabilities to the

criteria for a successful optimal currency area (OCA). EU and GCC countries are OCA in terms of openness because they have high economic openness level. Although the GCC has a low level of intra-regional trade, the fixed exchange rate regime still is the optimal due to the fact that the main export commodity is oil for GCC countries, they do not need to adjust the exchange rate between GCC countries due to their exchange rate fixed to the dollar which is the official currency of oil transaction. The EU

murmurings of the potential for an even greater financial crisis, a currency crisis, caused by the demise of the US Dollar. The Dollar has been the reserve currency of the world since it took over from the Pound at the end of world war two, but we examine if it is about to crash spectacularly? At the end of World War Two, the Bretton Woods system was established for world currencies. This system involved countries fixing their currencies to the US Dollar, which in turn was tied to the value of gold at

Like stated previously, each factor has its own respected relationship to the exchange rate within the global market. But a large influence is in part to how much a currency is worth is correlated to how much value that currency is backed by the local government. Physical cash has to be supported by goods and/or gold for the currency to be worth anything. This value comes from a balance with in accounts and controlled government spending. The current account is the balance of trade between a country

US Dollar over a five year period starting from 2005 till 2010. The exchange traded fund for Japanese Yen shall also be discussed in the paper and afterwards an analysis of both the currencies shall be presented. There are different factors that influence the exchange rate differences between any two chosen currencies. The effects produced by these different exchange rates can be of quite different intensity. The most common elements that have an impact on exchange rate difference include economic

The Brazilian real is the present-day currency of Brazil. The currency code for the Brazilian real is BRL, while the currency symbol is displayed as R$. On July 1,1994, the real was introduced by the Banco Central do Brasil, when it replaced the old currency, the cruzeiro real, as a part of the Plano Real. The Plano Real was a substantial monetary reform package which aimed to stabilize the Brazilian economy and put an end to three decades of extensive inflation (Wikipedia). Initially, the real was

substantial method to cope with currency risk is using currency derivatives. Many countries are interdependent on each other due to Globalization, which has led to increasing exposure to exchange rate volatility. Recent studies have shown that risk cannot be eliminated completely but it can be minimized when companies make decisions, which are backed by the correct risk management policies. We found out in this paper that there is no single best method to manage currency risk, but hedging using options

Fundamental Macroeconomic Flaws in the Euro Five years ago, the biggest thing in economic and international news was the introduction of the new European currency, the Euro, into circulation and into the pockets of the consumers of the participating countries within the European Monetary Union. In an attempt to unite Europe and to form a dominant currency to rival the US dollar, Europe locked their exchange rates and went full steam with this plan. Unfortunately, for many of the European countries, what

Introduction: Aspen is a software company which was established in 1982. The company mainly provides simulation solutions to process manufacturing companies. The main industry which the company focuses on is chemical processing. The entire idea began with the project of Advanced System for Process Engineering in MIT in 1976. This project was than acquired by Lawrence Evans whom founded Aspen. In a very short amount of time Aspen became a major player in the simulation part of the software industry