Vietnam’s decision to devalue its currency by 5 per cent last week to protect itself from undervaluation of the Chinese renminbi‚ and the worried response from Thailand and other Asian countries‚ suggests the move towards global trade conflict may already be unstoppable. As one group of countries seeks to gain or maintain trade advantage by manipulating their currencies‚ the historical precedent suggests that countries that are not able to devalue will respond with trade protection‚ especially tariffs
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Zimbabwe: A worthless currency | The Economist http://www.economist.com/node/11751346/print Zimbabwe A worthless currency The local dollar is fast shrivelling away Jul 17th 2008 | JOHANNESBURG | from the print edition WITH prices doubling every few days‚ Zimbabweans now spend huge amounts of time and energy preventing their meagre cash resources from completely evaporating. Trying to catch up with galloping hyperinflation‚ now officially running at 2.2m per cent a year and at least
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assess political risk? What are its consequences? How can a firm manage political risk? What is micropolitical risk and how does it affect international business? Political risk assessment can be done as simple as conducting an online research yourself‚ or by hiring experts and consultants familiar with the host country. They are able to inform the likelihood of political change and develop possible scenarios for future political conditions. Another form of assessing political risk can be assigning
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amounts of money to the colonies. The Sugar Act was supposed to cut down the temptation for smuggled good and this was supposed to help pay for the soldiers staying in America to protect the colonist. The next act was known as the Currency Act. The Currency
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Carry Trades and Currency Crashes Markus K. Brunnermeier‚ Princeton University‚ NBER‚ and CEPR Stefan Nagel‚ Stanford University and NBER Lasse H. Pedersen‚ New York University‚ NBER‚ and CEPR I. Introduction This paper studies crash risk of currencies for funding‐constrained speculators in an attempt to shed new light on the major currency puzzles. Our starting point is the currency carry trade‚ which consists of selling low interest rate currencies—“funding currencies”—and investing in
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op y CC-111-010 Do No tC BMW’s Foreign Exchange Risk Management This case was prepared by Professor Xu Bin and Dr. Liu Ying‚ Research Associate at CEIBS. The case was prepared as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. Copyright © 2011 by CEIBS (China Europe International Business School) No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic
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Strategic Management Financial & Political Risk David Warnock-Smith Strategic Management Programme • • • • Introduction to “risk” and “risk management” Sources of risk Risk classification Overview and management of: – Financial risk – Political risk – (Business / operational risk) Strategic Management Risk - Definition “The fact that the results of any action are not certain‚ but may take more than one value. Risk is usually used to describe the form of uncertainty where‚ while
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During the second half of 1997‚ and beginning in Thailand‚ currencies and stock markets plunged across East Asia‚ while hundreds of banks‚ builders‚ and manufacturers went bankrupt. The Thai baht‚ Indonesian rupiah‚ Malaysian ringgit‚ Philippine peso‚ and nouth Korean won depreciated by 40% to 80% apiece. All this happened despite the fact that Asia’s fundamentals looked good: low inflation‚ balanced budgets‚ well-run central banks‚ high domestic savings‚ strong export industries‚ a large and growing
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U.S. Stock Market A stock market is defined as a public entity for the trading of company stock at an agreed price. When you buy stock‚ you become a shareholder‚ which means you now own a part of the company. If the company ’s profits rise‚ you will share in those increased profits. If the company ’s profits fall‚ so does the price of your stock. If you sold your stock on a day when the price of that stock falls below the price you paid for it‚ you would lose money. In the stock market‚ prices
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EXC3613 Risk Management with derivatives Geir Høidal Bjønnes geir.bjonnes@bi.no 1 Introduction • Learning objectives: 1. 2. 3. 4. What is a derivative? What is the role of Derivatives and Derivatives Markets Firms’ risk exposures Hedging price risk with derivatives • McDonald: Chapter 1 2 Example • Consider a farmer that grows wheat and is expecting to yield 10‚000 bushels of crop in 3 months. He is afraid that the price of wheat might drop at the period
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