Financial Environment Analysis
Discuss various topics related to the analysis of the financial environment.
Fractional Reserve Banking Systems
How Central Banks Conduct Monetary Policy
Balance Of Payments
How do countries “Manage” Exchange Rates?
You should be able to easily find and write TWO (2) articles online that illustrate how various aspects of the financial environment impact different stakeholders (consumers, firms, industries, countries).
Here’s a recent example – https://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-currency-blackmarket/argentinas-little-trees-blossom-as-forex-controls-fuel-black-market-idUSKBN1ZZ1H1 (Links to an external site.)
– of what could happen if a country imposes currency controls.
This article – https://finance.yahoo.com/news/glossary-federal-reserves-emergency-measures-coronavirus-bazookas-120337473.html (Links to an external site.)
– provides various examples of unconventional tools used by the Federal Reserve (the central bank of the United States) to conduct monetary policy in the current economic environment.
What, do you think, are the pros and cons of using these tools?
This article – https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-low-interest-rates-can-discourage-competition-leading-to-slower-growth-2019-09-17?mod=mw_theo_homepage (Links to an external site.)
– contains an interesting discussion of how different aspects of the business environment interact.
It shows how monetary policy (an aspect of the financial environment) can affect competition among firms (an aspect of the economic environment).
