Screen LibraryManaging country risk：a practitioner's guide to effective cross-border risk analysis
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CRC Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Boca Raton, FL |
| Publication Dates: | c2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxxi, 276 p.: col. ill., col. maps ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781466500471 (hc : alk. paper) 1466500476 (hc : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | F830 |
| CLC: | F830.9 |
| Call Number: | F830.9/W132-1 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents note continued: Lessons Unlearned -- Defining Country Risk -- Country versus Sovereign versus Political versus Transactional Risk -- How Banks Approach Transactional Risk Management -- The Lessons of the Asia Crisis -- Elements of an Effective Risk Management Process -- The Boardroom Vacuum -- The Impact on Firm Performance -- Separating Fact from Fiction -- Notes -- ch. 3 Assessing Country Risk -- Introduction -- Information Sources -- Are Rating Agencies' Ratings Worth Using? -- Measuring Political Stability -- Comparing Indonesia and Vietnam -- Notes -- ch. 4 Country Risk Assessment in Practice -- Creating a Risk Management Framework -- Selecting Country Risk Management Tools -- Economic Measures -- Mapping Out a Country Risk Analysis Methodology -- Alternative Measures of Country Risk -- Corruption Perceptions Index -- Democracy Index -- Freedom in the World -- Gini Coefficient -- Global Peace Index -- Human Development Index -- Youth Unemployment -- Conclusion -- Contents note continued: Notes -- ch. 5 Political Risk Insurance -- What Is Political Risk Insurance? -- Who Needs PRI? -- An Overview of Investment Insurance -- Expropriation -- Forced Abandonment/Key Operator's Endangerment -- Financed-Asset Nonrepossession -- Deprivation/Contingent Deprivation -- Currency Inconvertibility/Nontransfer -- Political Violence -- Breach of Contract -- An Overview of Trade Insurance -- Contract Frustration -- Non-Honoring of Letters of Credit -- Wrongful Calling of Guarantees -- Trade Disruption Insurance -- Other Categories -- Export Credit Insurance -- Underwriters and the Underwriting Process -- The Private Sector Players -- Chartis -- Lloyd's -- Sovereign -- Zurich -- Market Capacity -- Private Underwriters -- The Public Schemes -- The Underwriting Process -- Underwriting Trade Transactions -- Underwriting Export Credit Transactions -- Premium Rates -- Pricing Methodology -- Recoveries -- Reinsurance -- Contents note continued: Case Study: Assessing the Risk of a Power Plant in Indonesia -- Case Study -- The Project -- Technical/Financial Viability -- Host Country Benefits -- Insurance Requirements -- Risk Assessment -- Expropriation -- Currency Inconvertibility -- Political Violence -- Breach of Contract -- The Impact of the Asia Crisis and Lessons Learned -- Notes -- ch. 6 Tales from the Battle Zone -- How Easy It Is to Make Costly Mistakes -- A Telecommunications Company in Pakistan -- A Paper Company in Russia -- A Power Company in Brazil -- An Arab Oil Company in Saudi Arabia -- An Oil Company in Russia -- A Fast Food Chain in Palestine -- A Media Enterprise in the Czech Republic -- An Energy Company in Venezuela -- A Technology Company in South Korea -- A Bank in Ecuador -- A Pharmaceutical Company in Yugoslavia -- An Oil Company in Peru -- A Power Company in Canada -- The Failure of a Bank's Country Risk Management Program -- How the Program Was Revised -- Contents note continued: Underwriting Information -- Creating an Operational Foundation -- Recoveries -- Note -- ch. 7 The Importance of Understanding China and Its Place in the World -- Introduction -- Geopolitics with Chinese Characteristics -- China as the Aggressor---The Case of the Spratly Islands -- Asia Looks Nervously over Its Shoulder -- The Maturing Chinese-Saudi Arabian Alliance -- FDI with Chinese Characteristics -- China's Rare Earth Bravado -- China and the Power of the Dollar -- China's Great "Development" Challenge -- China's Real Estate Syndrome -- The Enigma of China's Middle Class -- Investor Beware -- Notes -- ch. 8 Shifting Pendulums, Pressing Concerns, and the State of the World -- Introduction -- Brazil's and Turkey's Messages -- Brazil's and Turkey's Nuclear Ambitions -- Rising Tension with Turkey -- The Lesson to Be Learned -- Turkey's Foreign Policy Vision -- Turkish Foreign Policy: Moderation in the Extreme -- Contents note continued: Is Turkey Really Rethinking Its Place in the World? -- Upheaval in the Middle East: An Opportunity for Turkey -- The Folly of Brazil's Exceptionalism -- To BRIC or Not to BRIC---That Is the Question -- Too Big for Its Britches -- Pursuit of Autonomy versus an Adversarial Role -- Aid Recipient and Provider -- Its Own Worst Enemy -- BRICs Form Unstable Foundation for Multilateral Action -- Iraq's Democratic Experiment -- Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua: Lofty Idealism versus Hard-Nosed Politics -- India's Ongoing Concerns about Pakistan and Afghanistan -- Globalization Will Not Change Some Things -- Notes -- Appendix -- Country Risk Management Dictionary of Key Terms -- I.Country Risk Concepts -- II.Political Risk Insurance -- Notes. |