The purpose of the current event assignment is that you utilize and implement the theories and techniques you are going learn throughout the semester in a real-life event. The topic for this semester is the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and its impact on multinational corporations. This is such a high impact event that you can analyze it from several angles. For example, you can examine the following questions:
What are the effects of this war in the current business practices of multinational corporations? How does this affect their cash flows and valuations? What is the impact on the exchange rates and consequently on the valuation of multinational corporations?
What are the impacts on the Balance of Payments (BoP) and its components? How does this war affect foreign direct investments, bonds and stocks investments, etc.?
One can also examine the impact of this war in the oil and gas markets.
