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1. What are the main institutions and assets of futures markets? Discuss the relationship between spot and forward prices.
2. Who Benefits From Neo-Liberal Globalisation?
3. Discuss how Protectionism has been used as a major economic tool by both developed and developing countries. Highlight the usual forms of protectionism employed and the consequent influence on the domestic manufacturing sector.
4. In the light of globalisation, to what extent is ‘social responsibility’ a business issue?
5. “Recent balance of payments experience suggests that in advanced open economies, liberalised capital movements and floating exchange rates have abolished the ‘external constraint’”. Compare macroeconomic policy towards the current account under fixed exchange rates with capital controls (as under Bretton Woods) with the current international financial system. Is the balance of payments a matter for private sector indebtedness only? Can government ignore the balance of payments?
6. WHAT IS FACTORING?
7. Using the information in the article and any other sources, explain the difference between a fixed exchange rate mechanism and a flexible exchange rate mechanism. Would Thailand have been better off using a flexible exchange rate instead of a fixed rate?
8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of free trade?
9. “The Asian crisis (East Asian currency crisis of 1997/98) may have been only incidentally about currencies. Instead, it was mainly about bad banking and its consequences.” (Krugman, Jan 1998). Discuss.
10. CHINESE ECONOMIC REFORM
11. How easy is it to define and measure development? Is a strictly economic definition of development adequate?
12. AFEEC3004: UNDERSTANDING THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY Is there a global economy? Discuss the policy implications of your answer. (2000 words)
13. Trade: Policy Issues
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Successful import-substitution always requires simultaneous export promotion. Analyse and provide at least two examples.
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Does trade liberalisation by developing countries help or hinder their industrialisation? Explain with reference to the experiences of specific countries.
14. Using Blanchard’s Aggregate Demand and Supply Analysis, explain the view that the biggest risk facing the world economy is deflation, and assess the effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policy to avoid it.
15. What are the advantages and disadvantages of free trade?
16. MSc International Business - International Trade:
“The achievements of the rules-based system of world trade over the past fifty years or more have been quite remarkable”. Discuss.
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of free trade?
Trade is the exchange of goods and services between countries. Domestic goods, which are sold abroad, are referred to as exports. Foreign goods, which are purchased by domestic consumers, are known as imports. Free trade refers to trade, which is allowed to flow freely between nations. The pattern of trade can be altered through the use of barriers of trade. Barriers to trade are factors that prevent imports and exports from being exchanged freely. Barriers to trade are often referred to as protectionism. This is because governments, to protect domestic firms from competition from imports, often use barriers to trade. The most common form of protectionism is a tariff, which is a tax imposed on goods which are imported into a country. Tariffs increase the price of imported goods and are designed to reduce the demand for imports. Governments can also use quotas, which place physical limits on the amount of goods that can be imported. Quotas are also designed to reduce demand for imports by increasing their price. If governments subsidise exports, this is also a form of protectionism.
Some countries can produce goods at a lower cost than others. Therefore if a country can only produce a good at a high cost it is logical for that country to purchase that good from a country, which can produce it at a lower cost. Free trade will allow this to take place. An important argument, which is used to support free trade, is the theory of comparative advantage. A country has a comparative advantage in the production of a particular good when it can produce that good at a lower opportunity cost than another country. Therefore, in order to produce that particular good it has to give up less of other goods compared to other countries. The theory of comparative advantage states that countries should produce those goods in which they have a comparative advantage and trade in order to purchase goods in which other countries have a comparative advantage. This should lead to increased world output because countries are producing goods that they can produce efficiently..
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