Country risk : the bane of foreign investors /: the bane of foreign investors. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Norbert Gaillard.
• Other Names: Gaillard, Norbert
• Contents: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Business Activities and Country Risk -- 1.2 Genealogy and Definitions of Country Risk -- 1.2.1 Genealogy of Country Risk -- 1.2.2 Notable Definitions of Country Risk -- 1.3 Outline of the Book -- References -- Part I: Understanding Country Risk -- Chapter 2: Two Centuries of Country Risk, 1816-2016 -- 2.1 Foreign Investment During the Pax Britannica -- 2.1.1 Overall Risks -- 2.1.2 International Business Environment for Exporters 2.1.3 International Business Environment for Foreign Direct and Equity Investors -- 2.1.4 International Business Environment for Foreign Creditors -- 2.2 Deglobalization and Threats to Foreign Investment: 1914-1945 -- 2.2.1 The World War I Shocks -- 2.2.1.1 The Legal Shock -- 2.2.1.2 The Economic Shock -- 2.2.2 Nationalism, Isolationism, and Lack of International Cooperation -- 2.2.2.1 A Short-Lived Monetary System -- 2.2.2.2 The Rise and Fall of the League of Nations -- 2.2.3 The Slide Toward Protectionism -- 2.2.4 The Increasing Vulnerability of Foreign-Owned Property 2.2.5 Foreign Creditors in Turmoil -- 2.2.6 World War II -- 2.3 International Business in a Bipolar World: 1945-1991 -- 2.3.1 Reconstructing the World Economy -- 2.3.1.1 The United Nations -- 2.3.1.2 The Bretton Woods Monetary System -- 2.3.1.3 The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade -- 2.3.1.4 The European Recovery Program of 1948 -- 2.3.2 The Geopolitical Context -- 2.3.2.1 The Communist Bloc -- 2.3.2.2 Foreign Loans and Grants as the Continuation of Politics by Other Means -- 2.3.2.3 The Decolonization Process -- 2.3.2.4 The New Role of Oil-Exporting Countries 2.3.3 A Precarious International Monetary System Based on the US Dollar -- 2.3.3.1 1946-1959: The Dollar "as Good as Gold" -- 2.3.3.2 1959-1967: An Unstable System -- 2.3.3.3 1967-1973: The Agony of Bretton Woods -- 2.3.3.4 1973-1991: The Era of Floating Exchange Rates -- 2.3.4 Growth of International Trade and New Export Risks -- 2.3.4.1 The Role of the GATT and Its Limits -- 2.3.4.2 New Export Risks in LDCs -- 2.3.4.3 New Export Risks in Developed Countries -- 2.3.5 Foreign Direct Investment at Risk -- 2.3.5.1 Hostile Business Environment of the Postwar Decades 2.3.5.2 Foreign Investment Guarantees -- 2.3.5.3 Compensation from Expropriating States -- 2.3.5.4 Investment Climate and Country Risk Analyses -- 2.3.6 A Long Debt Cycle That Leads to a Major Financial Crisis -- 2.3.6.1 Unfortunate Foreign Bondholders and Dormant Sovereign Bond Markets -- 2.3.6.2 A Long Indebtedness Cycle Fed by Various Types of Creditors -- 2.3.6.3 The Debt Crisis of the 1980s and Its Resolution -- 2.3.6.4 Development of Sovereign Risk Assessment -- The World Bank -- The US Exim Bank -- Commercial Banks -- External Indicators -- Academic Research
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (259 pages)
• Subjects: 658.15/5; Financial risk; Investments, Foreign; Microeconomics; Globalization; International economics; Business & Economics -- Economics -- Microeconomics; Political Science -- Globalization; Business & Economics -- International -- Economics; Financial risk; Investments, Foreign; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030457884
• Related ISBNs: 9783030457877
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