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Symptoms of the Economic Bubble in the US IT Market

Student: Pozdeev Dmitriy

Supervisor: Irina Kratko

Faculty: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Educational Programme: World Economy (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2016

Today there is a very popular trend concerning rapid development of information technologies. The United States may be considered as a leader in this field, because there was formed a massive market involving IT entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. It seems that the growth of this market might be even too fast, hence there is a question: may this situation be determined by presence of a speculative bubble? The purpose of this paper is to find out whether there is the economic bubble in the US IT market. In order to achieve the goal, there was made an attempt to develop a multidisciplinary approach, which relies heavily on the analysis of the market with the use of a linguistic approach to the media and method of market research using market multiples. It may be stated, that, this might be considered as practical application of this paper, as the technique of research is the most versatile and can easily be used for further research. Keywords: Economic bubble, Venture Capital, the United States, IT market, Startup

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