dit NMIMS | The World .com fall - IT Bubble burst | | Poleswar Rao V | | INTRODUCTION The dot-com industry began in the early 1990s as a collection of startup companies using the Internet as their primary means to conduct business. These companies typically used the “.com” suffix in their company names, such as Amazon.com, and proliferated in the late 90’s with the massive investments in Internet-related stocks and enterprises. But with the failure and consolidation of many of these
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Dot-Com Bubble Table of Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 4 Causes ...........................................................................................................................................
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the Dynamic Conditional Correlation Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (DCC-GARCH). We estimate the DCC’s forecasting ability relative to unconditional volatility in three equity-based crashes: the S&L Crisis, the Dot-Com Boom/Crash, and the recent Credit Crisis. The assets we use are the S&P 500 index, 10-Year US Treasury bonds, Moody’s A Industrial bonds, and the Dollar/Yen exchange rate. Our results suggest that the choice of asset pair may be a determining factor
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World Wide Web History Bubble History of the WWW ECOM 210 World Wide Web History Introduction Founded in 1989 the World Wide Web went from an impossible idea to a worldwide phenomenon that has fused itself into the needs of the people. I remember years ago when computers were just those gross green screened monitors that only allowed you to type a report. Now with the help of the internet our use of computer technology has reached amazing heights. We can reach people around the world
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the most successful indirect sales channel strategy at that time. In later 1990s, Cisco had ever been the world’s most valuable company, its market capitalization exceeded $500 billion in 2000, and sales reached $18 billion. With the telecom and dot-com crash in 2001, Cisco’s business was hugely affected; $1 billion loss was reported in 2001. The shrunken market made Cisco’s management completely review and revamp its go-to market strategy. Market and Products: Cisco’s major products are switches
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Objective: To discuss the role of capital market intermediaries in the dot-com of 2000 and to check whether their incentives were properly aligned with their intended roles. Observation: This case mainly describes the dot-com bubble and discusses the underlying causes of the bubble burst. It was primarily caused due to the speculation by intermediaries such as investors, accountants, lawyers, regulatory bodies, investment banks, venture capitalists, and money management firms of the value of the
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CASE STUDY: THE ROLE OF CAPITAL MARKET INTERMEDIARIES IN THE DOT-COM CRASH OF 2000 Question 1 Venture Capitalists: The intended role should be to fund effectively picked out unlisted growth companies with promising business ideas and talented value driven management teams from those companies that do not reflect these characteristics. As VC’s typically encounter high risk upon investing, they also demand a high return that often comes in the form of a sell out of shares after an IPO. Putting
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ACCT 311 Dot-Com Crash 2000 Ting Hu Bradley Bromelow Austin Person 1.What is the intended role of each institutions and intermediaries discussed in the case for the effective functioning of capital markets? There is an information gap between investors and companies. Investors usually do not have enough information or expertise to determine the good investments from the bad ones. And companies do not usually have the infrastructure and know-how to directly receive capital from investors
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The Role of Capital Market Intermediaries in The Dot- Com Crash of 2000 1. What is the intended role of each of the institutions and intermediaries discussed in thecase for the effective functioning of capital markets? The institutions and intermediates roles are: a)Venture capitalists: VC provides capital for companies in their early stages of developmentand screen good business ideas and entrepreneurial teams from bad ones. It employs savvy business people who worked closely with their
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economic environment described in the House of Cards video is characterized by events leading up to the financial crisis the United States experienced in in the early 2000s. The crisis is credited to events such as, the burst of the Dot Com Bubble, which lead to a market crash that put the American economy in a recession; and the controversy that surrounded Government Sponsored Enterprises, which lead the American people to lose trust in it’s government’s financial institutes. However, people such as
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