Market Entry Strategy Project. This exercise corresponds to the MESP online simulation.

For the country your team is researching, does it have a city that is an important financial center? What volume of bonds is traded on the country’s bond market? How has its stock market(s) performed over the past year? What is the exchange rate between its currency and that of your own country? What factors are responsible for the stability or volatility in that exchange rate? Are there any restrictions on the exchange of the nation’s currency? How is the forecast for the country’s currency likely to influence business activity in its major industries? Integrate your findings into your completed MESP report. (Hint: Good sources are the monthly International Financial Statistics and the annual Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions, both published by the International Monetary Fund.) q-1