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Country Investment Decision is an interactive exercise in which students adopt the role of an International Fund Advisor. Students must study the data available about different countries in order to prioritize the investment options and make a final investment proposal.

The exercise is designed so that different data sets of real countries are firstly considered individually before all the data together is taken into account to make a final proposal. The topics covered are economic indicator data, institutional data, and finally social and political risk data. At each decision stage, the student must justify their choices. A professor’s page displays graphically the evolution of decisions.

* This material will have personalized links for each student and the professor will have the ability to see individual and aggregate responses before and during the class session.

Through a simulation based on a petroleum futures market, students put into practice their knowledge of the supply and demand model. Students play this simulation in a network, competing against one another to top an investment leader-board across a series of rounds.

In each round, students watch a video news report and then have to decide how the events mentioned will affect the future price of oil. After taking their positions in the market, a second video provides feedback and students then see their gains/losses and how the results have affected their standing in the class leader-board.

Beginning with the details of an unnamed country this interactive exercise lets students combine various economic policies to analyze their future impact (in the following two years) on the main macroeconomic indicators. The results and feedback given to students are expressed numerically and graphically.

Students also have access to the results of the combination of policies used throughout the exercise so that they can be compared. Said results can be printed for subsequent discussion.