Global Economic Analysis

In recent years, there has been a change in the way world economic affairs are settled. While developed nations in the economic and commercial axis of US-Europe-Japan held the leadership throughout the 20th Century, now the 30 strongest emerging markets are setting the pace. The repercussions this will have on the economic policy of countries, the global industrial organization and also day-to-day decisions and strategy at the firm level, needs to be studied from innovative angles. This course offers the framework required to carry out a global economic analysis using a novel technique known as global gameboards. This allows the participant to map his country/industry/firm as if playing a complex game arranged in three consecutive game boards.

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Planning and finance executives, chief economists, policy makers, consultants, portfolio managers and risk managers, corporate treasurers, comptrollers and any executive or academic interested in discussing the brave new appearance of the global arena.
No advance preparation required.
Students will be able to:
  • Demonstrate rooted fundamentals in the analysis tools needed to judge the strength of a country's economy both from a macro and micro standpoint, within the new geoeconomic blueprint
  • Discuss confidently on the weaknesses that a country embodies as a foreign investment target, when evaluating the geographic expansion strategy of a multinational corporation or the industrial strategy of an economic policy maker
  • Develop a model to apply consistently a geographic expansion strategy of a multinational corporation, taking into account the macro framework, the micro considerations such as pricing power and competition and the relative strength of the industry clusters inside the economic plan of the sovereign government
A course in basic macroeconomics.
  • Investing in Emerging Markets
  • Global Trader Simulation - 4 Day
  • Economic Indicators: Clues to the Future
    • Day 1 - The Open Economy Model through a Microeconomic Lens

    The current state of world economic affairs

    • The main engines of global growth and its imbalances
    • The taxonomy of crisis in the last three decades: banking, currency and current account
    • Current governance & policy issues: Is the system hanging out on a limb

    The traditional model of open macroeconomics with a micro twist

    • Analyzing an open economy in a globalized world
    • The modeling, parities and forecast of volatile exchange rates
    • Political risk and investment decisions
    • How does a change of international hub affect the industry map within a country

    Day 2 - The Global Gameboard Approach for Industry Analysis

    Analyzing political, growth, and debt variables for the whole economy

    • The analysis of growth: trends, fundamentals, forecasts
    • The political and business cycles: the underlying forces
    • The culprit of future economic stability: fiscal performance and sustainable dbt ratios

    Analyzing exchange rates, inflation, pricing power and concentration variables within an industry

    • The nominal anchors (exchange rates and inflation) and their impact on an investment decision
    • The third global gameboard, a micro model to evaluate a target country: pricing power and concentration
    • The main criteria for appraise industries as investment targets

    Day 3 - Applications of the Global Gameboard Approach

    Applications for the firm in terms of its globalization strategy

    • Operational, business & strategic aspects of going global
    • Case studies: India & Chna vs. Brazil and Mexico
    • The construction of an efficient portfolio of countries

    Application for the economic policy of countries

    • The first global gameboard: methods for mapping country competitiveness in a global context
    • The second global gameboard: the mapping of natural industry inclinations within a country
    • The industrial policy mandate as a function of their flourish/perish prognosis
    • The attraction of foreign investment: the value proposition of countries, integrating the global gameboard approach

    Clients who register for this course will receive a complimentary 6 month subscription to the Financial Times and FT.com. The Financial Times is the world's most respected financial newspaper providing a broad assessment on finance, business and the industrial sector. Subscriptions will start within 6-8 weeks of the application process, and are limited to one per client. For questions about your subscriptions call 800-628-8088 or email uscirculation@ft.com. US and Canada enrollees only.

    Lunch included for all students taking day classes.