This class examines the process of risk management in emerging markets.

 

Powerpoint slides: Poland'sA2.ppt

 

 

 

Assignment Sheet
Emerging Markets Finance
Darden Graduate School of Business
Spring First Half 2002

Class #4, Friday, January 25, 2002

Topic: Project finance and the process of risk management.

Case: Poland’s A2 Motorway, HBS #202-030

File: PolandsA2.xls

Assignment Questions:

1.      What are the major risks in this project?  Have they been properly identified, assessed, and mitigated under the current structure?

2.      Who bears the major risks?  What factors determine who should bear the major risks?

3.      What are the various strategies you can use to manage project risks?  For example, when is it appropriate to prevent, hedge, insure, allocate, or bear particular risks?

4.      How should Wojciecki Gebicki respond to the banker’s concerns in June 2000?