The Foreign Investment in the Global Economy

Course unit code

V.1.2.

Course unit title

The foreign investment in the global economy

Name(s), surnames(s) and title of lecture(s)

Raisa Elmurzaeva

Associate professor

Level of course

Master

Semester

3

ECTS credits

5

Working hours

Contact hours

28

Self-study

152

Total

180

Work placement

Prerequisites

The student’s knowledge and skills correspond to the learning outcomes of the Bachelor’s Degree level. The students must know Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Mathematical Modelling, Finance, Accounting, Economic Analysis. Studying this course requires that the student have already acquired the necessary knowledge, skills and competence from the such courses from the Master’s curriculum as Analysis of socio-economic systems.

Language of instruction

Russian/English

Objectives of the course

Learning outcomes

A student’s assessments methods

1) ability to understand the fundamental difference foreign direct investment, portfolio and other investments and their importance to the national economy;

2) ability to conduct the cross-country research foreign’s investments (volume, dynamics and proportions of distributions);

3) ability to justify the strategy of allocation of foreign investments based on an analysis of regional, bilateral agreements on investments;

4) ability to develop recommendations for state and business structures taking into account constraints and incentives to attract foreign investment;

5) ability to identify and explore important scientific issue the possibilities and boundaries of attracting foreign investment.

Exam, test, problem resolving report;

Exam, research work, presentation, own or group projects;

Research work, presentation, case-study, own or group projects;

Exam, case-study, research work, problem resolving report, own or group-projects;

Exam, research work, presentation, own or group projects

Teaching methods

Lectures, class participation, case-study, tests, own or group projects, student portfolios, writing book reports.

Course unit content

Course objective

The main goal of the course is to reveal the features of foreign investment  and their ability and the limits of attraction, and to provide the necessary expertise and consulting skills in foreign trade transactions at the firm level, the public authorities.

Gained knowledge and skills:

• knowledge of the typology of foreign investment;
• possession of instruments for the regulation of international national level;
• collection, processing and interpretation on foreign investment in the world economy;
• the development of foreign economic policy at the firm level, state organizations.

List of Topics

Topic title

Contact hours

Assignments and independent study hours

The role and importance of foreign investment

6

38

The volumes, dynamics and the distribution

8

38

The regulation of foreign investment in the world economy

6

38

The constraints and incentives for export/import of foreign capital

8

38

Total

36

72

Assessment requirements

Attendance at lectures and seminars, planning and preparation of a problem solving report, research work, in-class presentation

Assessment criteria

Exam, test, problem resolving report, class presentation, own or group projects, research work,

The composition of final accumulative mark

Exam – 50

Test – 10

Problem resolving report – 10

Research work – 10

Class presentation – 10

Own or group projects - 10

Author of the course

Raisa Elmurzaeva