What is an assetbubble ?
Garber, P.M. (2000): A bubble is present when the price of an asset differs significantly from its fundamentals.
Kane, Edward and Kindleberger, Charles (2004): bubbles appear in the last stage of an economic boom, when expectations are irrationally optimistic.
Kindleberger and Aliber, (2005):“an upward price movement over an extended period of 15 to 40 months that t
assets in 1997 and 1998 is accounted for by the increase in “bills bought.” The Japan premium ruling at the time meant that non-Japanese banks had a considerable pricing advantage over local Japanese rivals, and managed to exploit this advantage.
2) In 1999, the Bank of Japan lowers the interest rate at 0%. In 2001, the U.S. lower its interest rate suddenly after the dotcom bubble burst.
II. Yen carry trade
II. 1. What is Yen carry trade?
II. 1. (1) Typical meaning
The typical meaning is “borrowing at low interest rates in yen and using the loan to buy higher yielding assets elsewhere.” During the past decade, the trade has become a “staple” for many investors. One of the most popular forms of the strategy exploits the gap between US and Japanese yields. Anyone
1. Introduction of the project
1) Purpose of project
Through the project, we want to build extensive knowledge about cruise industry and accounting analysis (common size analysis, comparative analysis, and ratio analysis). We believe that the project makes us accounting experts.
Cruise Industry has grown and continues to grow enormously in scale. It is frequently regarded as a small but sig
asset utilization/turnover, long-term solvency or financial leverage, profitability and market values for companies in the same industry within same country. Then, the paper further scrutinizes each component of DuPont Identity and compares how well each company is carrying out operating, investing and financing activities. As a result, from these analyses, the paper derives some meaning from the