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BBCF4073 International Finance (CT9)

ASSIGNMENT 1

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS:

1. Identify 5 characteristic of developed countries.

2. Differentiate per capita income from per capita gross domestic product.

3. Identify 5 develops countries.

4. Identify 5 emerging countries.

5. Explain Human Development Index.

6. Explain Cross Border Trades.

7. Name the countries grouped as the Fragile Five.

8. Summarise the pegging of Malaysian currency during 1998 East Asian

Financial Crisis.

9. Explain dollarization and why would some countries practise dollarization.

10. Discuss disadvantages of dollarization.

11. Name 5 countries which practise dollarization.

12. Explain Brexit.

13. Identify 5 currencies nicknames.

14. Identify 5 currencies pairing nicknames.

15. Discuss the history of EURO in brief.

16. List TEN Eurozone members countries.

17. Name THREE Eurozone members countries which are not using EURO as
their official currency.

18. Discuss TWO differences between domestic finance and International Finance.

19. The International Monetary System went through several distinct stages of
evolutions from The Gold Standard, 1876-1913 till present. Discuss the
importance of the Gold Standard System.

20. Explain Mint Parity rate.

21. Explain Deficit Spending.

22. Explain Protectionism and Isolationism in the Inter-War years.

23. At the end of World War II (1944-1945), majority of the Allied Powers met in
New Hampshire, United States and created a post-war international monetary
system.
i. Identify the name of that monetary system.
ii. Why are they creating the new monetary system.
iii. Is the monetary system still survive, why or why not.

24. Differentiate International Monetary Fund from World Bank.

25. Explain Currency Board.

26. Explain crawling peg.

27. Explain Dirty Float.

28. Explain TWO differences of Fiscal policy from Monetary policy.

29. Name the three attributes of The Impossible Trinity.

30. Why there are no ideal currency.