Basel MBA-820 Course Syllabus - Dr. Madjid Tavana, Professor of ...

to provide services, the type of activities allowed and the type of investment allowed, as well as,regulations on capital flows and taxation and repatriation of profits, or indeed, tax benefits offered by agovernment to attract foreign banks to invest directly to encourage spill-over effects in the industry. Thesize of the market for banking products and specifically the product markets that are targeted and thepotential growth of these are other factors. In terms of the foreign financial market dynamics the potentialperformance and profitability depends on the interaction and rivalry among existing banks in the market,the number of these their nationality and their size distribution, that is whether it a concentratedoligopolistic market with a few large banks and some other smaller banks, or it is a highly fragmentedmarket. Different product markets and customer segments, that is, individual or corporate customers,may have different levels of rivalry and margins and hence profitability is different for each type. The morea bank has distinctive competencies the more that they may be transferred abroad. By definition whenthey have distinctive there must be some competitive advantage for the bank.The decision to enter an emerging economy by a multinational bank is a very important one, as manyfactors need to be considered. We consider the following 30 countries in 4 continents: Africa (Angola,Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda); Asia (Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Vietnam);Europe (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,Turkey, Ukraine); and Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay).PESTEL analysis (political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal analysis) is used toinitially collect 500 factors grouped into the political, economic, social, technological, environmental, andlegal categories. We then use FONDA to Filter, Organize, Normalize, Decide, and analyze the data. Aminimum of 200 factors for the abovementioned 30 countries must be used in the final data set. Moreinformation is available at: http://tavana.us/project/Click here to open and fill out your data sheet. Please return or email yourcompleted data sheet to your instructor during the first week of classes.9