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International business: the new bottom line
International business
Management
Bruce Kogut is a professor of management and codirector of the Reginald H. Jones center at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In his article, “International business: the new bottom line” which he writes for Foreign Policy he looks at the importance of firms to pursue international business and the factors that help shape what…
What Role Does the Wto Play in International Business?
International business
International Relations
International Trade
Trade
What role does the WTO play in international business? In this increasingly globalized scenario, companies need to be globally competitive in order to survive. Knowledge and understanding of different countries’ economies and their market is a must for establishing oneself as a global player. Now the business has gone beyond the boundaries of a nation…
Interest Rate Parity Condition Theory
Finance
Financial markets
Interest
International business
Investment
Money
Interest rate parity is a no-arbitrage condition representing an equilibrium state under which investors will be indifferent to interest rates available on bank deposits in two countries. The fact that this condition does not always hold allows for potential opportunities to earn riskless profits from covered interest arbitrage. Two assumptions central to interest rate parity…
Transaction Exposure
Exchange rate
Finance
Financial markets
International business
Money
Trade
The transaction exposure component of the foreign exchange rates is also referred to as a short-term economic exposure. This relates to the risk attached to specific contracts in which the company has already entered that result in foreign exchange exposures. A company may have a transaction exposure if it is either on the buy side…
Viva NAFTA? – Pros and Cons of NAFTA – Cover Story
Export
Free Market
Free Trade
International business
Trade
United States
The first thing to say about the North American Free Trade Agreement is that the protectionist attacks on it by Ross Perot, Dick Gephardt, Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson, and others are nonsensical. Jimmy Carter was not exaggerating when he characterized Perot as a demagogue “with unlimited financial resources, who is extremely careless with the truth,…
Absolute and comparative advantages (Smith and Ricardo theories)
Business Process
Concept
Economics
International business
Microeconomics
Trade
The concept of absolute advantage is the ability of a country to use less resources (inputs) to produce goods/products than any other country. For Smith, a country should specialize in the production of the product for which it has an absolute advantage and should buy at lower price others goods from other countries. Smith argued…