viernes, 28 de noviembre de 2008

Business Groups and Risk Sharing around the World & JSTOR

El modo en el que busque este artículo es el mismo que con el pasado, aunque me encontré con un problema. Yo quería encontrar el artículo en español pero no pude hacerlo. Por alguna razón a la hora de buscar artículos en español la búsqueda no resultaba correcta. Es por esto que decidí publicar otro artículo pero ahora en ingles.

Referencia del articulo MLA
Kahanna, Tarun and Yafeh, Yishay. "Business Groups and Risk Sharing around the World." The journal of Business (2005): 301-340.

The Cost of Business Cycles under Endogenous Growth & JSTOR

Para la búsqueda de este artículo decidí utilizar este recurso electrónico ya que nunca lo había usado. La búsqueda realizada no tuvo complicaciones ya que, los campos de búsqueda se encuentran de una manera muy sencilla para los usuarios. También me base en como había realizado búsquedas anteriores en diferentes recursos. Me fui a búsqueda avanzada y llene los campos de palabras claves, rango de años, tipo de información que buscaba, en este caso un artículo y por último el idioma, ingles.

Referencia al articulo MLA
Barlevy, Gadi. «The Cost of Business Cycles under Endogenous Growth.» The American Economic Review (2004): 964-990.

jueves, 27 de noviembre de 2008

Business growth. Luck or skill?

Business growth. Luck or skill?



Fast growth SME's are not the norm. Quite the opposite, per the FT, two thirds of starts up have gone under by year 7. So what do the fast growth SME's have that the others don't is it luck or skill?

Luck does play its part. Sometimes being in the right place at the right time can make a huge difference. I've seen some of SME's biggest clients come from unlikely situations. The odds of it happening were small, but possible. I've also seen strong management teams being caught up in external factors just outside their control. Even the best team can't prepare for the infinite eventualities the world can through up at it. Sometimes it is just plain bad luck that strikes us all.

So luck plays its part for a growing business, but over the years I've become more and more convinced skill is underplayed. What do I mean by that? I mean there is an enormous amount that the majority of SME's can do to improve their odds of growing and becoming more successful. What this entails I'll be covering over future posts this year.

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miércoles, 26 de noviembre de 2008

Reseña de recurso electronico

Este medio es bastante eficiente ya que nos muestra claramente articulos de economia no solamente en nuestro Pais sino tambien en paises internacionales, el tiempo en que nos da los datos es muy rapido y siempre nos da la informacion clara .

Market Strategy - ILS: Short-Term Bounce Could Have Further To Run

The Bank of Israel (BoI) continues to cut interest rates aggressively, most recently slashing the lending rate by 50bps to 2.50% on Monday - the fourth move in less than two months. This is a record low, and comes in just 25bps above our end-2009 projection. We are leaving this in place for now, allowing for further cuts next year, possible as far as 1.50%, and then a return to tightening later on, depending on how the economic slowdown plays out. However, there are downside risks to our forecast.

As well as the rate cuts, the government has also announced an ILS21.7bn stimulus plan. The plan includes (1) accelerated investment in infrastructure (from 2010); (2) ILS1bn worth of credit for medium-sized businesses, ILS550mn for exporters, ILS180mn for small businesses; (3) injection of ILS350mn to state investment in research and development and; (4) strengthening the labour market by providing training and hiring subsidies.

Under pressure from the financial markets, the government has also announced plans to allocate ILS11bn in capital and guarantees, and provide tax exemptions for overseas investors to encourage foreign investment in the local market and boost liquidity. A total of ILS6bn will go towards guarantees to the banks for the raising of capital, while the remaining ILS5bn will be used to set up a number of investment funds in partnership with the pension institutions (provident funds, pension funds and managers' insurance providers) for the provision of non-bank credit and to deal with the refinancing of bonds.