Research of inflation rate and its determinants: An analysis of GSK corporation in United States

With the rapid development of technology and the economy, more and more companies realized that the macroeconomic factors are quite important in terms of the big changes of them might carry the systematic risks to the whole system. For example, the subprime crisis happened in the United States in 2007 and eventually caused the financial crisis to the whole world. Therefore, this paper will choose the GSK corporation as the sample and analyze the inflation risk and the determinants of it. During this paper, the author used the inflation rate as dependent variables and ROA, ROE, corporate governance index, Tobin’s Q, Altman-Z score, GDP growth rate and the unemployment rate as the independent variables in order to find the relationship among these variables