Write a 4- to 5-page paper (1000 to 1375 words) in APA format and thoroughly address the prompts below. Whenever possible, provide specific examples or recommendations. Be sure to cite all of your sources and include at least one outside source in this paper.
Provide a descriptive title or heading for your paper by focusing on an international firm and a host country (other than the United States) that interests you, such as “The Volatile Exchange Market in Country X.”
Discuss and explain the following concepts:
Describe the operations that the international firm seeks to perform in a new host country (manufacturing, joint venture, or exporting from the home country) and the competition the firm would face there.
Investigate whether the host country has received a loan from the World Bank or the Inter-American Development Bank in the past forty years and describe the circumstances and changes implemented from the loan.
Describe the host country’s major financial institutions and the strength of its currency versus the U.S. dollar.
Express how the firm could utilize hedging tools to mitigate foreign exchange exposure in the host country.
Recommend how the firm could leverage the host country’s capital markets and successfully invest there.
Depict how the host country’s governmental policies and/or actions affect possible investment.
Communicate how the firm’s financial organizational structure would be effectively used in the host country.