Econ350 – Money and Finance
Order Description
Question 1
Do your own research on Argentina’s debt crisis in 2001, and use it as a case study to
demonstrate the nature of money as transferable debt or credit.
(Hint: During a crisis, banking transactions don’t take place as usual, grinding the
economy to a halt. In such a situation, the economy has to improvise a type of money to
keep payment transactions going.)
You may find the following source is useful:
https://www.barter-software.com/download/rpt/26.pdf
Question 2
Read the article ‘Central Bank Independence is losing its lustre’, and present an argument
to defend central bank independence.
Question 3
Read the following article and explain why Japan’s largest pension fund has trimmed its
pile of government bonds and increased its holding of stocks.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-15/biggest-pension-fund-has-reasonsto-buy-japan-stocks-sell-bonds
Question 4
Carefully examine the ‘US Treasury Historical Yields’ obtained from the link below.
Describe the yield curves of different-maturity securities, and their fluctuation. Which
theories can be used to explain these patterns?

Applying Standardized Terminologies in Practice – Informatics

Question 5
Read the article ‘The rise and fall of the largest corporation in history’ and discuss the
factors contributing to the success of the VOC (the United East India Company).
https://www.businessinsider.com/rise-and-fall-of-united-east-india-2013-11?IR=T

Other requirements:
• Use the provided cover sheet.
• Use any font but with a font size of 12.
• One-sided printing only
• Referencing (of any formal style) is needed if you use sources other than the
provided articles.
answers for each question
should be between 400 – 500 words.