Revenue Rise with Loans

The independent system of doing business no longer works. Today the workplace rallying cry is teamwork. Organizations are becoming interdependent and relying on others to help them accomplish their goals. They’re moving toward more openness and creating organizational cultures that support it. The Partnership Continuum model helps partners assess where they are in this transition. [...]

The asymmetric distribution of corporate bond returns is easily explained by the Merton model introduced earlier. Numerous studies substantiate that even the return distributions of less risky and more liquid asset classes like government bonds are skewed and leptokurtic. Moreover, index returns exhibit significant autocorrelation that can be explained partially by a permanent component. Basically, [...]

Generally, in growing economies the nominal level of debt rises over the years. This is mostly because of inflation and a steady growth in balance sheets. The long-term upward trend has accelerated sharply since 1980, coinciding with the sustained fall in short- and long-term interest rates and inflation rates. Since then, the steadily falling level [...]

For decades economists have analyzed the behavior of various economic indicators during the business cycle. Employment is commonly seen as one of the lagging indicators for the state of the economy. However, there is a leading indicator for the labor sector that coincides with changes in credit spreads. For example, for most of the time [...]