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Li, Wei
Wal-Mart China: Tian Tian Pingjia
Weiss, Elliott N. Simko, Paul J. Modica, Marc W. Li, Wei Yemen, Gerry
OM-1472 | Published April 25, 2012 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Having taken stock of where the division was, Scott Price, Wal-Mart China's interim CEO, wanted to lay the groundwork to be able to hand over the reins to the new CEO with an idea of where it was head... Read More
SEC versus Goldman Sachs (A)
GEM-0101 | Published October 27, 2010 | 26 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In April 2010, the SEC brought fraud charges against Goldman Sachs for its structuring and marketing of Abacus 2007-AC1, a complex mortgage-related security. Less than two years after the onset of the... Read More
SEC versus Goldman Sachs (B): The Settlement—Everybody Wins, Except Fabrice Tourre
GEM-0102 | Published October 27, 2010 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On July 15, 2010, the U.S. Senate obtained the 60 votes needed to pass the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. On the same day, the SEC reached a $550 million settlement with Go... Read More
The Financial Regulatory Environment
GEM-0103 | Published October 27, 2010 | 9 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
The financial regulatory environment in the United States covers the insurance, banking, and securities industries. This note summarizes the regulation of all three as of July 31, 2010. This compact ... Read More
Identifying Gains and Losses from International Trade: An Exercise
BP-0531 | Published August 21, 2008 | 3 pages Exercise
Collection: Darden School of Business
This exercise is designed for students to analyze the economic benefits of free trade and political economy consequences arising from the distribution of benefits and costs among consumers and produce... Read More
Foreign Ownership of U.S. Treasury Securities (Abridged)
F-1540 | Published November 01, 2007 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2004, for the first time, foreigners owned more than half of privately held U.S. public debt, mostly in the form of marketable U.S. Treasury securities. In internal discussions at the U.S. Treasury... Read More
Brazil: Dealing with International Shocks
BP-0509 | Published March 27, 2007 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On January 15, 1999, the Brazilian central bank, in the face of massive speculative attacks on the Brazilian real, decided to let the real float. In the foreign exchange markets, the real fell sharply... Read More
Dealing with Capital Flows: Thailand in 2006
BP-0511 | Published March 13, 2007 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case was written as an exam case for first-year course, "Global Economies and Markets." It is written as a comprehensive case that examines the policy choices facing a small open economy in an in... Read More
Rates and Ratios Tell a Story
BP-0510 | Published February 27, 2007 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
For a variety of reasons, economic performance varies both across economies around the world in any given year and over time for any given economy. The level of economic development, political and eco... Read More
The Open Economy IS/LM Simulation Model: A User Guide
BP-0522 | Published February 15, 2007 | 2 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a user guide for the computer simulation of the short-run open economy IS/LM model (UVA-BP-0522X). The model is also known as the Mundell-Fleming model. We assume the user is a student who is ... Read More
Ben S. Bernanke in 2005
F-1510 | Published October 19, 2006 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case has been used in a first-year required course called Global Economies and Markets in a module on monetary policy. On October 24, 2005, President Bush nominated Ben S. Bernanke to be chairman ... Read More
The First Credit Bureau
F-1524 | Published February 01, 2006 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case can be used in courses on credit markets, emerging markets finance, and economic and financial development. The Pragma Corporation, a northern Virginia-based international development consul... Read More
Alan Greenspan in 2004
F-1480 | Published November 14, 2005 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In October 2004, one month from the presidential election, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan undertakes a full review of the unusual events of the previous six years, including the devastat... Read More
Gavin Carter: What is an MBA Worth?
F-1478 | Published October 22, 2005 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
At 26 years old, Gavin Carter was facing a dilemma. He had just received the good news that he had been accepted to the MBA program at a prestigious University. But he had also been informed recently ... Read More
Assessing the Impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Li, Wei Rodriguez, Peter L. Huang, Angela
BP-0490 | Published October 19, 2005 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the summer of 2005, while the U.S. economy was growing comfortably despite a few longstanding concerns over deficits and outsourcing, storms were brewing off the Gulf Coast. On August 25, 2005, Hu... Read More
The Xiangyang Market
BP-0487 | Published October 04, 2005 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Xiangyang Market, located at the center of the shopping district in the trendy former French concession in Shanghai, is one of the city's prime shopping venues and a must-see tourist destination. Cons... Read More
Characteristics of Emerging Economies
Li, Wei Bruner, Robert F. Conroy, Robert M. Hoyer-Ellefsen, Richard Palacios, Miguel
F-1453 | Published October 06, 2004 | 26 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Today, roughly 30 countries are classified as "emerging markets" by the World Bank. Investor interest in these markets has grown substantially over time. During the first half of the 1990s, privatizat... Read More
Market Integration and Portfolio Strategy
Li, Wei Hoyer-Ellefsen, Richard
F-1454 | Published October 06, 2004 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note describes the degree to which emerging markets are integrated with the global market and its implications on portfolio strategy. Video supplements are available to enhance student ... Read More
Valuation in Emerging Markets
Li, Wei Hoyer-Ellefsen, Richard
F-1455 | Published October 06, 2004 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The special characteristics of the business environment in emerging markets, as described in the previous two technical notes (UVA-F-1453 and UVA-F-1454), affect the validity and applicability of many... Read More
Institutional Economics: The Dutch East India Company
BP-0474 | Published September 16, 2004 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Dutch East India Company, founded in 1602, was one of the first companies in the world and became the largest company in the world in that period. This case offers a historical perspective on the ... Read More
Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance
BP-0475 | Published April 03, 2003 | 6 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
Why are some countries much richer than others? This technical note proposes a framework to begin answering this question. The first part identifies inefficient institutions as the root cause of the e... Read More
Chile: A Changed Jungle for the Latin American Tiger (B)
BP-0462 | Published September 06, 2002 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the early 1990s, in the context of massive foreign capital inflows, the Chilean government restricted the flow of capital into the country to achieve a competitive and stable exchange rate and to c... Read More
Chile: A Changed Jungle for the Latin American Tiger (A)
BP-0461 | Published September 06, 2002 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case has been used since 2004 in Darden's first-year Global Economies and Markets MBA course in the module on exchange regimes and financial crises. In the early 1990s, in response to massive for... Read More
Chile: A Changed Jungle for the Latin American Tiger (Abridged)
BP-0458 | Published August 27, 2002 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the early 1990s, in the context of massive foreign capital inflows, the Chilean government restricted the flow of capital into the country to achieve a competitive and stable exchange rate and to c... Read More
Note on Central Planning
BP-0459 | Published August 27, 2002 | 5 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
The rise and fall of central planning rank among the most significant events in the 20th century. For much of the century, central planning, which had catapulted Russia from a backward country in 1921... Read More
ASIMCO-Nanyue Joint Venture in China
F-1374 | Published August 27, 2002 | 27 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is written for a course on emerging markets finance. It can be used to teach valuation, merger and acquisition, and financial forecasting in an emerging market setting. Intrigued by growth ... Read More
Dragon Beer
F-1382 | Published August 27, 2002 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is an exercise using real options to value investment opportunities and make investment decisions in an emerging market setting. ADDITIONAL MATERIALS: Spreadsheets Read More
China's Emerging Financial Markets
F-1393 | Published August 27, 2002 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case documents the many unusual features and puzzles of Chinese financial markets (e.g., foreigners' receiving large discounts in buying Chinese shares relative to Chinese investors). The case il... Read More
Cost of Capital: The Downside-Risk Approach
F-1394 | Published August 22, 2002 | 5 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note describes the downside risk approach to estimating the cost of equity in emerging markets and contains an example. Based on paper: Javier Estrada, "The Cost of Equity in Emerging Markets: A... Read More
Country Risk and the Cost of Equity
F-1392 | Published August 21, 2002 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
An exercise in case format that demonstrates how to compute the cost of equity for an investment project in an emerging market using both the Lessard and the Godrey and Espinosa methods. ADDITIONAL M... Read More
Rural Credit Cooperatives in India
BP-0521 | Published | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Recently, the Indian Congress asked a distinguished committee of experts to analyze and make policy recommendations about India's Cooperative Financial Institutions (CFIs), which included organization... Read More
Foreign Ownership of U.S. Treasury Securities
F-1477 | Published | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2004, for the first time, foreigners owned more than half of privately held U.S. public debt, mostly in the form of marketable U.S. Treasury securities. In internal discussions at the U.S. Treasury... Read More