Foreign exchange option

trade, linkages and spillovers to domestic firms. The following arguments are advanced in favour of foreign capital  Sustaining a high level of investment  Technological gap  Exploitation of natural resources  Understanding the initial risk  Development of basic economic infrastructure  Improvement in the balance of payments position  Increase in competition  Impact on Employment FOREIGN DIRECT…

Specifically focusing on foreign investment to stimulate economic growth, the private and public sector works closely together as the policies support specific industries with low or no-interest loans, tariffs, export subsidies... This allows companies to have government support…

Globalisation facilitated the growth, competitiveness and internationalisation of the business landscape, establishing opportunities for firms to expand globally, invest in foreign countries, encouraging business growth, competition and new-market opportunities (De Villa, Rajwani & Lawton,2015). Expansion into foreign markets requires firms to make important strategic decisions regarding which mode of entry to implement. The long-term commitment (Samiee,2014) of the mode of entry, while a key…

Several developing countries around the globe have lifted restrictions on foreign capital inflow since the early 1980s. Brazil undertook a significant position as recipient of foreign direct investments (FDI) in the 1990s. During the last thirty years, a great number of empirical studies focused on the role of FDI in economic growth in developing countries. However, there seems to be no agreement with regard to the direction of causality between these two variables. This study focuses on the…

Global Competitiveness and Foreign Direct Investment Global competitiveness assesses a countries productivity and return on investments by using a number of benchmark measurements. The different measurements expose opportunities for Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) from outside countries or entities (Hill, 2009). As organizations see opportunities to in other countries to invest and increase productivity for their firm and the country it can operate in, FDI becomes mutually beneficial. The…

America’s relationship with Myanmar ended in May 1997, when the Government of Burma, which was controlled by a military junta, commenced a large scale democratic opposition. The growing number of U.S. economic sanctions has become a trend in U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. No one argues that U.S. sanctions on Myanmar harm the interest of American companies that operate in this country. Myanmar is a promising prospect for business and investors with a underdeveloped economy in…

Death is a part of life. For as long as someone can live, they can die just as quickly. The reality of death has been portrayed through multiple mediums in various cultures but poetry seems to address it quite often. One poet: Kakinomoto Hitomaro, wrote about the life and death of his wife with frightening emotion. Hitomaro lived in Japan during the 8th century and “his elegy on his first wife is among the most touching poems in any language” (Barnstone 461). Although Hitomaro’s poem is…

during Robin Sage training. UW concept and some of its activities were new to me. Seven years later when someone mentions UW, I remember my Robins Sage training. In my experience, Foreign Internal Defense (FID) is the majority of training I conducted. I heard how SF prides itself in UW, but the focus was on conducting foreign…

1. Research statement This research will investigate the similarities and differences between Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HSX) and The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in terms of their operations and trading systems, in order to assess what HSX could learn from the NYSE’s standards, so that recommendations can be made to HSX. 2. Research questions 2.1 Research question 1: What is the historical development of Vietnamese and American Stock Markets? There are three types of information…

“Insider trading” is a term that is commonly known to investors, but what is insider trading? This term in most cases is references to illegal actions. However, the term speaks to both legal and illegal actions. According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (n.d.) (SEC), Insider trading as a legal action, addresses when corporate insiders-officers, directors, and employees-buy and sell stock in their own companies. In situations of legal insider trading, they are required to…