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What is the spot rate for the British pound on Wednesday in terms of the U.S. dollar? (Or, stated differently, how many dollars does a pound cost? Or, from the U.S. perspective, what is the direct
What would be the impact on world trade and investment if there were only one currency?
How important is the creation of international banking facilities to the international competitiveness of the U.S.banking industry?
Suppose the spot pound and the three-month forward pound are both selling for $2.00, while U.S. interest rates are 10 percent and British interest rates are 6 percent. Using coveredinterest arbitrage
Do you expect the U.S. dollar to maintain its position as the dominant currency in the foreign-exchange market or will the euro or the Chinese yuan supplant it? Explain your answer.
How important are communications and computing technologies to the smooth functioning of the foreign-exchange market? If the technological advances of the past four decades were eliminated—for
Suppose the Federal Reserve Board unexpectedly raises interest rates in the United States. How will this action affect the foreign-exchange market?
What are the major characteristics of offshore financial centers?
What are Eurocurrencies?
Describe the various forms a bank’s overseas operations may take.
Discuss the major types of arbitrage activities that affect the foreign-exchange market.
Explain the different techniques that firms can use to protect themselves from future changes in exchange rates.
What is the role of international banks in the foreignexchange market?
How are prices established in the foreign-exchange market?
What determines the supply of any given currency in the foreign-exchange market?
What determines the demand for any given currency in the foreign-exchange market?
The U.S. government gives Rwanda $500 million worth of food to feed starving refugees.
Ford Motor Company (U.S.) pays $2.5 billion to purchase all the common stock of the Jaguar Motor Co. (UK).
The U.S. entrepreneur instead pays United Airlines (a U.S. airline) $1,500 for a Los Angeles–Tokyo round-trip ticket.
A U.S. entrepreneur seeking to sell souvenirs at the 2020 summer Olympics in Tokyo pays Japan Airlines, a Japanese carrier, $1,500 for a Los Angeles–Tokyo round-trip ticket.
What connections exist between the current account and the capital account?
Can international businesses operate more easily in a fixed exchange rate system or in a flexible exchange rate system?
Are there any circumstances under which a country might want to increase its currency’s value?
Under what conditions might a country devalue its currency today?
Did the key role that the dollar played in the Bretton Woods system benefit or hurt the United States?
What parallels exist between the role of the British pound in the nineteenth-century international monetary system and that of the U.S. dollar since 1945?
Identify the different types of balance of payments surpluses and deficits.
What factors cause measurement errors in the BOP accounts?
List the four major accounts of the BOP accounting system and their components.
Describe the differences between a fixed exchange rate system and a flexible exchange rate system.
Why did the Bretton Woods system collapse in 1971?
Why are quotas important to IMF members?
Why was the IFC established by the World Bank?
What was the initial goal of the World Bank?
Why is the gold standard a type of fixed exchange rate system?
What is the function of the international monetary system?
MyLab Management Only—comprehensive writing assignment for this chapter.
What are the primary factors that affect FDI?
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the country-based trade theories and the firm-based trade theories.
“Bottle shops”—small retail outlets specializing in selling fine wines—might purchase a case or two of a specific wine when placing an order. (A case typically consists of a dozen
Should the U.S. government adopt an AOC system to ensure the quality of U.S. wines destined for export markets?
Should the French government relax its AOC system, allowing French vintners to expand the size of their chateâux to capture economies of scale? Why or why not?
Why are French wines able to command a price premium in export markets?
Both Old World vineyards and New World vineyards compete in the global market place. What are the competitive advantages and disadvantages of the Old World vineyards? Of the New World vineyards?
Based on what you know about the Japanese and Korean markets, decide whether the same pattern of competitiveness that exists in the United States for the computer, consumer electronics, and
Do the same theories work as well in making predictions for those industries?
What other industries can you think of that fit one of the three patterns noted in the opening paragraph?
Do some theories work better than others for different industries? Why?
Re-read “” “Venturing Abroad” on page 163 . Identify three different “clusters” in your home city, state/province, or country. Why did these clusters develop there?
Mazda and Toyota decided to build a new automobile assembly plant in Alabama.a. What factors do you think Mazda and Toyota considered in selecting Alabama as the site for the factory?b. Who benefits
Why is intraindustry trade not predicted by country-based theories of trade?
In the public debate over ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Ross Perot said he heard a“giant sucking sound” from U.S. jobs headed south because of low wage rates in Mexico.
In our example of France trading wine to Japan for clock radios, we arbitrarily assumed that the countries would trade at a price ratio of one bottle of wine for two clock radios. Over what range of
How do political factors influence international trade and investment?
What are the three parts of Dunning’s eclectic theory?
How do foreign portfolio investments and FDI differ?
What are the four elements of Porter’s theory of national competitive advantage?
What are the primary sources of the competitive advantages firms use to compete in international markets?
Explain the impact of the product life cycle on international trade and international investment.
How do interindustry and intraindustry trade differ?
How useful are country-based theories in explaining international trade?
Why are Leontief’s findings called a paradox?
How do the theories of absolute advantage and comparative advantage differ?
What is international trade? Why does it occur?
MyLab Management Only—comprehensive writing assignment for this chapter.
What is the triple bottom line? How should international businesses balance these three components? Is the balance point the same for all businesses?
Discuss the primary challenges facing international business in managing CSR across borders.
Should firms refuse to automate their factories in order to preserve the jobs of the Bangladeshi apparel workers?
What is the Corporate Social Responsibility of foreign retail brands who rely on these Bangladeshi factories?
Who is responsible for improving factory safety in Bangladesh? . . . the owners of the firms? . . . the owners of the buildings? . . . the Bangladeshi government? . . . foreign retailers purchasing
What is the cause of the safety issues plaguing Bangladesh textile factories?
How important is the garment industry in Bangladesh?
If asked, what advice might you offer to each company to improve its attention to ethical conduct and social responsibility as reflected by its website?
How do the websites affect your view of each company from the standpoint of a potential investor? A potential employee? A potential supplier?
Which firm has the least effective website vis-à-vis ethics and social responsibility? In your opinion, what makes it the worst?
Which firm has the most effective website vis-à-vis ethics and social responsibility? In your opinion, what makes it the best?
Symbolically, what potential role does the Internet serve in helping to promote ethical conduct and social responsibility as evidenced by the websites you visited?
Consider the following scenarios:To assist the sale of your products in a particular foreign market, it is suggested that you pay a 10 percent commission to a “go-between” who has access to
Are the ethics of gift-giving different between highcontext and low-context cultures?
Two consortia of leading North American and European apparel retailers, the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, have pledged to provide
Do you think there should be more or fewer attempts to regulate international ethics and social responsibi-lity? Why?
Under what circumstances, if any, might you see yourself as a whistle-blower? Under what circumstances, if any, might you keep quiet about illegal acts by your employer?
What are the dangers or pitfalls that might be encountered if a multinational business attempts to be socially responsible, but only in ways that provide direct benefits to its profitability?
Do multinational businesses ever do socially responsible things that are clearly of no benefit whatsoever to themselves?
Do you think social responsibility for an MNC is something best managed locally or best managed globally?
What do you think is most likely to happen if the ethical behaviors and decisions of a new team of top managers of a firm are inconsistent with the firm’s long-entrenched corporate culture?
Under what circumstances is a code of ethics most and least likely to be effective? Why?
People from which countries would likely have similar ethical beliefs as people from the United Kingdom? Why?
Is it valid to describe someone as having “no ethics”? Why or why not?
Although people from the same culture are likely to have similar views of what constitutes ethical versus unethical behavior, what factor or factors would account for differences within a culture?
Identify and briefly summarize representative laws and regulations that attempt to address international ethics and social responsibility.
What is a whistle-blower?
What are the four general approaches a firm can take regarding social responsibility?
Identify the major areas of social responsibility for international business.
What is the difference between ethics and social responsibility?
What is social responsibility?
How do organizations attempt to manage ethical behavior across borders?
What role does culture play in the formation of ethics?
Distinguish between ethical and unethical behavior.
What are ethics?

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