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The primary role of a Stock Exchange is to facilitate and regulate the transfer of funds and securities between investors and businesses. The CEO of a stock exchange, belonging to its governing body, has complete jurisdiction over the various functions of the stock exchange...

This week, Editor Mudit Bansal (MB henceforth) from De-Economist sat down with Dr. Swati Alok (SA henceforth), Assistant Professor in the Economics and Finance Department of BITS Hyderabad, to discuss how she approaches life, career and the world around her...

The government, in its classic "Move Fast and Break Things" fashion, decided to jam three major Farm Bills through the Parliament last week. These bills affect the well-being and livelihood of more than half the country employed in the sector, but the government decided that it could not spare a few days' worth of debate and deliberation before enacting their "sweeping reforms". And for a change, I don't really mind it...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) is an organization of 13 countries that together contain 81.5% of the world's proven oil reserves. It was formed to give these countries collective power over global oil prices and improve their profits...

A National Educational Policy is a comprehensive framework formulated by the Government of India to guide the development of education, which covers elementary school to colleges across the country...

As the “Oracle of Omaha,” the richest, the most idolized, the most respected businessman in the world celebrates his 90th birthday, we bring the story of his life for you. From $38 to $78.9 billion, from a paperboy to the wealthiest businessmen, his life has become the most inspirational and imitated in the world for young entrepreneurs...

On this day, the daughter of a construction contractor, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who was later known to be as Mother Teresa, was born in Skopje, the current capital of the Republic of Macedonia, in 1910. With a brief look at the early life of Agnes we’ll see why she is known for her great charitable work and called Mother Teresa...

Money has many roles and is not really as straightforward as our understanding of it may suggest...

As Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, turns 73 on this day, let’s look at how he contributed to the post-cold war economic expansion of the United States...

Negative interest rates are exactly what they sound like- interest rates on loans and deposits, among others, below zero. A situation wherein a borrower will end up paying back less than what he borrowed, a depositor ends up losing money on his principal amount...

The article is organized as follows. The first section contains a summary and some highlights from the Big Tech Hearing in-front of the House Judiciary Sub-Committee on Anti-Trust of the US Congress. Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and Tim Cook were present for this hearing, and the Congress had some choice words for each of them...

Building a successful start-up is an arduous task. It demands a lot out of anyone, both physically and mentally. Additionally, a good entrepreneur probably misses a high-paying job despite their great skills, while working in a small room. Therefore, they invest a lot in their venture if one accounts for the high opportunity cost...

We are all familiar with the Zoom app, as the ideal video conferencing platform (VCP). Its overnight success is what is making its competitors bite their nails. The debateable question is, how Eric Yuan, the CEO of Zoom, managed to use the pandemic as a stepping stone to success? Let us try to address this question and understand the secret behind it, learning about him and the company from their history to the future...

All B3 students need to complete 6 Discipline Electives (DEls) in their 4 or 5 years on campus, largely completed in 2-1, 2-2, 3-2 and 4th year. It is suggested (and is your best case-scenario) that you take at least 2 of these 6 electives in your second year. It is completely upto you whether you wish to take both these electives in 2-1, in 2-2 or one elective in each semester. I can say with certainty that neither of the three options are worse or better than the other...

The CFA Program is the benchmark qualification for the investment industry. It has over 150,000 charter holders today who work as Portfolio Managers, Equity Research Analysts, Fund Managers, Wealth Managers, CFOs, and Risk Consultants...

With the imposed lockdown and newly accepted norm of social distancing, work from home has replaced the traditional offices in almost every sector, at least as of now. Although the world has already experienced a sneak-peek of remote working long back, work-meets in rectangles is a new normal now...

A ‘Bad Bank’ is not a phrase for an underperforming or a corrupt bank, despite how it’s used in common parlance. A ‘bad bank’ is a corporate structure set up to buy the bad loans and other illiquid holdings of other banks/financial institutions. This helps the banks clear many Non-Performing Assets(NPAs), off its balance sheet, subsequently encouraging the banks to ramp up lending...

Hong Kong is an important city in Asia as it plays a vital role in international trade in many countries. Despite being just a small city with a deep water port as its only asset, Hong Kong has overcome many difficulties in establishing itself as a powerhouse economy and is an essential financial center comparable to New York, London, and Singapore...

Covid-19 has disrupted almost all parts of the world and has challenged the public health system greatly. A medical catastrophe, the coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 2 million people and killed over 160,000 people till now. The last pandemic of the size and scope of the current coronavirus pandemic was the 1918-19 Spanish Flu pandemic...

The Economics Association had organised a seminar on 5 February, 2020 for all B3 students and finance aspirants to enlighten them about what lies ahead on this fairly trodden yet uncertain path. We had a tremendous turnout for the event. The things that we touched upon included electives to choose from, PS, internships, career prospects, and further studies...