Evaluate investment and financing decisions for multinational firms in light of risks associated with foreign exchange and international bond markets.

Description

A 2000 word individual academic essay (50%) on a topic area of interest that is of the mainstream with particular emphasis on the financial crisis.

The impact of the financial crisis on single parent families and the governments lack of financial help/refusal to support a Child maintenance service package afforded to children, the most vulnerable in society, our future; for decades.

Yet through COVID the government has proven that they can provide financial support at record speed for businesses and industries. Why? When will the government identify this lacuna and suggest solutions.

Child maintenance service behaviour during covid, not using enforcement powers, diverting staff from processing CMS payments for children, to processing universal credit applications. Children in poverty as a result of no child maintenance. Startling direct correlation between children in poverty and outstanding child maintenance arrears.

Module aims: This module is a study of the financial economy and international markets from a macroeconomic perspective. This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the workings of the real global economy and its interaction with financial markets. There are three aims for this module:

1. to develop an in-depth understanding of the importance of financial markets in the operation of the global economy and evaluate the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and financial markets of different asset classes

2. to evaluate investment and financing decisions for multinational firms in light of risks associated with foreign exchange and international bond markets;

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