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Barter is a form of countertrade where goods and/or services are exchanged simultaneously without using money or similar monetary instruments. This type of trade refers to a single contract between two parties who are fully compensated by the traded nonmonetary items. This clearly distinguishes barter from other forms …
The Basel Committee on Banking Regulation and Supervisory Practices (Basel Committee), founded in 1974 by the central bankers from G10 countries, serves as a forum for banking supervisory matters. Current members of the Basel Committee come from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, …
BASF AG (Badische Anilin-und Soda-Fabrik) is the world’s largest chemical company (in terms of both net sales and number of employees). The company has its headquarters in Ludwigshafen am Rhein (RhinelandPalatinate, Germany). BASF handles a diverse, yet interrelated, portfolio of products, including chemicals, plastics, agricultural products, fine and …
A basis point is a unit of measurement in the market for loan finance used by the market participants in relation to interest rates and bond yields. One basis point is one percent of one percent. The system of basis points is, therefore, grounded in the decimal system …
Bayer AG is a German chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen, Germany, by Friedrich Bayer in 1863. Bayer has its headquarters in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is currently the third largest pharmaceutical company globally. Bayer was one of the important German chemical companies of the late …
The standard theoretical model of economic behavior presents human beings as calculating, rational agents who (a) are motivated by self-interest and make clear and logical decisions based upon their preferences and incentives, and (b) possess an unlimited capability to process information. Although intuitively appealing, this model of consumer …
Behavioral finance is closely related to the study of behavioral economics and seeks to integrate cognitive psychology into the study of financial markets and institutions. Due to the availability of data, behavioral finance is the branch of economics were the application of behavioral ideas has had its greatest …
The Republic of Belarus (also Byelorussia) is an eastern European country, which was formerly the most western of all Soviet Union republics. It became independent in 1991, although it largely aligns its foreign policy with its eastern neighbor, the Russian Federation. Although the country had a very solid …
Belgium (11,787 sq. mi., population 10,666,866 in 2008, GDP $377 billion in 2007) is one of the founding members of the European Union (EU), and a key participant in the history and economics of Europe for centuries. Along with the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Belgium is part of the …
The Bel-20 Index is a real-time (computed in principle every 15 seconds) basket of minimum 10 and maximum 20 stocks (listed on Euronext Brussels and meeting some specific criteria) that exhibits the highest free float adjusted market capitalization. The market capitalization is the public consensus on the value …
Benefits are payments or entitlements that are provided by an employer and offered to its employees. Benefits are also referred to as company benefits, employee benefits, and fringe benefits. In most cases, benefits are promised to an employee as part of an employment agreement. Benefits can also be …
As perhaps the most central of human resources (HR) systems, performance appraisal has commanded the attention of organizational scientists for many years. In the organizational context, performance is usually defined as the extent to which an organizational member contributes to achieving the goals of the organization. Performance appraisal …
International market entry always warrants a careful assessment of the risk associated with foreign target countries. In evaluating and selecting foreign markets, companies may choose to follow a highly customized country-by-country approach or to work with established country-comparisons. One such established comparison is BERI. BERI, or Business Environment …
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (Berkshire) is a holding company incorporated in Delaware that owns a diverse set of subsidiary businesses. Its corporate headquarters is located in Omaha, Nebraska. As of the end of 2007, Berkshire and its subsidiaries employed about 233,000 persons. Berkshire is a unique company in two …
Best Buy was founded in 1966 by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in St. Paul, Minnesota, under the original name “Sound of Music Store.” This retailing company, offering mainly consumer electronics, and has more than 150,000 employees. The headquarters are in Richfield, Minnesota, and the Best Buy …
In 1977 Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) set up a manufacturing facility in Bhopal, a city of some 900,000 inhabitants in Madhya Pradesh, India. It was licensed by the Madhya Pradesh Government to manufacture phosgene, monomethylamine (MMA), methylisocyanate (MIC), and the pesticide carbaryl, also known as Sevin. The …
The bid/ask spread is also known as the bid/offer spread. In the financial markets the bid price is the price at which a dealer (market-maker) will buy a particular security from an investor. The ask price is the price at which the dealer will sell that security to …
The Big Mac Index compares the prices of McDonald’s Big Mac burgers, a fast food item produced and sold in 120 countries worldwide, as an indicator of possible overvaluation or undervaluation of the local currency relative to the U.S. dollar. The tongue-in cheek analyses give an easily digestible …
Bilateral free trade agreements (BFTAs) are agreements generally made between two countries or two regions, or one country and one region; it is widely accepted that they lead to economic growth by reducing poverty and increasing standards of living and generating employment opportunity. While some BFTAs can be …
Routine business activities often involve contracts known as bills of lading. A bill of lading is a document or receipt issued by a carrier when it receives goods for shipment. Usually, the receipt indicates (1) the particular vessel on which the goods have been placed; (2) destination; (3) …
