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END SEMESTER EXAMINATION 2021-22
Programme:BBA Semester - IV

Course Code: BCM216Course Title: International Business

Time: 03 Hrs. Max. Marks: 100

Instructions: 1. All questions are compulsory
2. Assume missing data suitably, if any.
CO1:Identify the concepts and scope of the International Business environment and PESTLE Framework
CO2:Explain the cause and effects of BoP fluctuations.
CO3: Illustrate the importance of Forex Reserves and causes for Exchange rate fluctuations
CO4:Determine the cause and effect of trade and international investment
CO5: Categorize various International Institutions for their functions and purpose

Sl. No. COs Marks BTL*

SECTION-A
All Questions are Compulsory: (10×4=40 Marks)
1. Describe the historical perspective of globalization. CO1 4 K1
2. Illustrate three competitive factors that influence international business. CO1 4 K2
3. "Exporting for business expansion is not always feasible". Outline the CO2 4 K1
meaning of the statement.
4. Give examples of the significant political and economic arguments CO2 4 K2
against free trade.
5. Express in your words whether your nation's government practice free CO3 4 K2
trade, protectionism, or something else.
6. Sketch the importance of MNCs in international business withexamples. CO3 4 K3
7. Discover whethera change in the elected government affects the CO4 4 K2
FDIinvestment (doing business) environment.Demonstrate your views.
8. Solvethe International Trade Financing phenomena. Write its different CO4 4 K3
types.
9. Compute the role of WTO in international trade. CO5 4 K2
10. Illustrate the role of IMF in solving the Balance of Payment problem. CO5 4 K3

SECTION-B
All Questions are Compulsory: (3×6=18 Marks)
 (a)Analyze regional trade blocs.Interpret the factors responsible for regional
economic integration.Produce a suitable example.
11. ---- OR ---- CO3 6 K4
(b)Discover the determinants of foreign exchange. Produce an answer with an
example.
(a)Illustrate how an economy in recession presents new opportunities for
foreign direct investment? Use examples.
12. ---- OR ---- CO4 6 K4
(b) Analyze thefactorsthat have led to the increased growth in MNCs in recent
decades.
(a) Compare IMF and WTO.Discover the role of these organizations since
COVID-19.
13. ---- OR ---- CO5 6 K4
(b) Illustrate World Bank. How are fraud and corruption addressed in World
Bank-supported operations?

SECTION-C
All Questions are Compulsory: (3×10=30
Marks)
(a)Multinational enterprises do not formulate worldwide strategies but rather
regional strategies. What does this statement mean, and how does it help us
better understand international business?
14. ---- OR ---- CO3 10 K5
(b)Business firms worldwide have committed blunders in translating from
one language to another. As an international business manager, how would
you cope with such mistakes?
(a)Assume yourself to be an exporter, and you need export credit, analyze the
importance of this credit in your business and at what stages you would
require export credit.
---- OR ----
15. (b)As a foreign policy tool, trade embargoes discourage foreign governments. CO4 10 K5
Examples include US embargoes against Cuba, Iraq (until 2003), and North
Korea. Embargoes cause a great deal of misery among the population of the
affected countries (such as shortages of medicine and food). Are embargoes
ethical? Evaluate the situation.
(a)Along with growing multilateralism in the era of WTO, regional trading
agreements (RTA) have also witnessed a rapid increase in recent years.
Explain the reasons for the growing attractiveness of regional agreements
over multilateral negotiation.
16. ---- OR ---- CO5 10 K5
(b)The world needs policies that are designed directly in response to
challenges seen worldwide – including job losses and persistent inequality.
Synthesize your answer in light of the efforts done by the World Bank Group,
International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization.

SECTION-D
All Questions are Compulsory: (1×12=12 Marks)
(a)Imagine that you are working for a US business evaluating whether it
should move its manufacturing to India or China. You have been asked to
present the pros and cons of this investment. Being an IB professional, what
political, legal, economic, social, and business factors would you need to
assess for each country? Summarize your answer with the IMF, world bank,
K5
17. and world trade organization provisions. CO5 12
---- OR ----
(b)You are an IMF official going to a country whose export earnings cannot
pay for imports. The government has requested a loan from the IMF. In
which areas would you recommend the government make cuts: (1) education,
(2) salaries for officials, (3) food subsidies, and (4) tax rebates for exporters?
Instructions:
i. Only 17questionsare to be asked in ETE.
ii. An alternative question will be asked with the OR option with the same serial number. The
alternative question must map with the same CO(s).
iii. The paper setter must fill the two tables (given below).
iv. Paper setter must see the COs of the courses described in the syllabus to frame the questions in
alignment with expected COs and Blooms taxonomy

Table1: Distribution of question & marks among the Units of syllabus

Unit Questions Numbers Total Marks
1 1,2 8
2 3,4 8
3 5,6,11,14 24
4 7,8,12,15 24
5 9,10,13,16,17 36

Table 2: Mapping between COs and questions

(Number of COs may vary from course to course)

Knowledge level
COs (Bloom's taxonomy, K1, Questions Numbers Total Marks
K2. .K6)
CO1 K1, K2 1,2 8
CO2 K1, K2 3,4 8
CO3 K2, K3, K4, K5 5,6,11,14 24
CO4 K2, K3, K4, K5 7,8,12,15 24
CO5 K2, K3, K4, K5, K6 9,10,13,16,17 36

(Gaurav Singh Arora)

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Contact No: 9971126599

* You may type the questions into this template and RENAME THE FILE with the subject code
Example: ECE223.
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