Country Risk in the Age of Global Turbulences

Country Risk in the Age of Global Turbulences

Investing, lending, trading currencies or commodities, importing and exporting goods and services, all these transactions are risky!

Risk stems from a situation of uncertainty regarding current or future situations, where information about the situation’s outcome is insufficient, lacking or simply wrong. Uncertainty itself derives from a deficit of information, hence randomness of results. Information availability is in itself a crucial measure of Country Risk.  How can one trust a country where balance of payments and debt data are, at best,  obsolete or  even missing?!

The course aims at assessing the challenges of country risk assessment within the turbulent environment of Globalization. The global market economy has become an echo chamber of volatility, hence adding the risk of spillover! 

Throughout this MOOC, we shall tackle not only financial and economic risks, but also social and institutional upheaval, country rating and ranking, competitiveness, as well as geopolitical turmoil and sustainable development prospects.

Managing Country Risk to turn uncertainty into opportunity

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What you will learn

• Students will be able to assess and better predict country risk volatility and be aware of the wide range of country risk information sources

Rating: 4.5

Level: Intermediate Level

Duration: 3.5 hours

Instructor: Michel-Henry Bouchet