Globalization, Transparency and Economic Growth: The Vulnerability of Chinese Firms to Macroeconomic Shocks

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The process of globalization encompasses economic and financial integration. Abolition of capital controls and dismantling of barriers of different kinds are important ingredients of the process that will entirely change the exposure of previously sheltered companies to shocks on the global economic arena. Lessons learned by policy-makers in already globalized countries are that market participants should be prepared to meet the new exposure to fluctuating exchange rates, interest rates and inflation rates. China has recently adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in her efforts to improve the quality of information available for risk management and for pricing of risk. This paper claims that further improvements are needed and presents a new framework for how to understand and measure the impact of different scenarios on corporate performance. It also elaborates on how to communicate the macroeconomic effects to external stakeholders of the firm in a way that fosters further economic growth in China.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 768

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity ; Business Fluctuations; Cycles ; Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy ; Economic Integration ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; International Finance Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications ; General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation ; Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill ; Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope ; Business Economics
• Subject: International Financial Reporting Standards ; Transparency ; Economic Growth ; Macroeconomic Impact ; Globalization ; IFRS ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Globalisierung ; Konjunktur ; Schock ; Makroökonomischer Einfluss ; China

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Oxelheim, Lars
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/81496
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