The objective of this thesis is to highlight the Egyptian experiment concerning its economic reform programme, and to determine whether this programme has affected Egypt's stock market performance. Using 18 years of data, which covered the period 1980/8 1 to 1997/98 and incorporates time periods prior to and after adopting the economic reform programme, the thesis empirically investigates three main issues. Firstly, there is an examination of whether the Egyptian government succeeded in implementing its economic reform programme by looking to the main economic indicators: nominal interest rates, real interest rates, the inflation rate, exchange rate stability, the real GDP growth rate, per capita income and the budget deficit in Egypt after 1991, and comparing them with the same indicators prior to this period. Secondly, the thesis considers the changes in Egypt's stock market after the introduction of the economic reform programme by measuring the changes in four main dimensions: market activity, market size, market liquidity and market concentration. Thirdly, and this is the main part of the thesis, the research concentrates on examining the impact of Egypt's economic reform programme on its stock market performance. For the first two issues, several logistic regressions are performed to determine whether the data prior to 1991 can be separated from the data relating to the period after 1991. The results from this analysis indicate clearly that both type of data series witnessed dramatic changes after 1991. As to the third issue, cointegration analysis is used to model the relationship between economic reform programme variables and the stock market performance variables within an error correction model form. Generally speaking, the results from this analysis demonstrate that economic variables have an impact upon various features of market activity, market size, market liquidity and market concentration. An important observation in this thesis is that Egypt still needs to accelerate its rate of growth, as it was the only independent variable, which did not show any significant change or significant impact upon the stock market performance variables.

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In light of the importance of this transaction, which is sanctioned by the monetary authorities as an 'Advanced Payment for Exports,' to promoting Brazilian exports, the author seeks to analyze legal instruments established under Brazilian legislation or socially typified, which are premised on the implementation of contractual and collateral structures aimed at eliminating basic risks in cross-border transactions with emerging economies such as Brazil. These instruments are applied during the various stages of the structured trade and commodity finance, and pose challenges for their agents – financiers, executives, and attorneys – related to obligations, risks, liabilities, collaterals, and contingencies that are under-explored in the legal literature. The topic is examined in nine chapters. The first chapter reviews the various types of trade finance transactions; the second chapter analyzes structured trade and commodity finance transactions; the third chapter deals with the parameters of rationalities (such as combined analyses of balance sheets, cash flows and assets mobilization) adopted by foreign lenders in order to provide credit to exporters; the fourth chapter is reserved for a detailed study of the transaction’s risks and their mitigation; the fifth chapter discusses the key features of pre-export finance; the sixth chapter is dedicated to regulatory aspects, concept, features, and field of application of the 'Advanced Payment for Exports'; the seventh chapter analyzes contractual aspects that are inherent to a pre-export finance transaction; the eighth and ninth chapters are dedicated to a study of collaterals, particularly with respect to the preservation of goods and rights granted as collateral for the purpose of reimbursing the capital to the foreign lender. From this perspective, the key elements of structured finance for Brazilian commodities exports shall be analyzed in order to contribute to the improvement and dissemination of these business and legal mechanisms (that are still restricted to a highly specialized audience), which were designed to promote economic development in Brazil. / O presente trabalho tem por objeto analisar aspectos jurídicos relacionados com o financiamento internacional do comércio de commodities, com dedicada atenção ao chamado 'financiamento pré-exportação' (ou pre-export finance). Considerando a relevância dessa operação ao fomento das exportações brasileiras, admitida pelas autoridades monetárias como 'Recebimento Antecipado de Exportação', ter-se-á como objetivo a análise dos instrumentos jurídicos que, recepcionados pela legislação brasileira ou socialmente tipificados, têm como premissa a implementação de estruturas contratuais e de garantias voltadas para a eliminação de riscos em operações transfronteiriças com economias emergentes, como o Brasil. Esses instrumentos são empregados nas diversas fases do financiamento estruturado de commodities, impondo aos seus agentes – financiadores, executivos e advogados – desafios relacionados com obrigações, riscos, responsabilidades, garantias e contingências pouco exploradas pela literatura jurídica. O tema será desenvolvido em nove capítulos. O primeiro conceituará as diversas modalidades de operações de trade finance; o segundo dedicará análise para as operações estruturadas de financiamento do comércio de commodities; o terceiro tratará dos parâmetros de racionalidades (como análises conjugadas de balanço contábil, fluxo de caixa e mobilização de bens) adotados pelos financiadores estrangeiros para a concessão do crédito ao exportador; o quarto será reservado ao estudo criterioso dos riscos da operação e sua mitigação; o quinto discutirá as características principais do financiamento pré-exportação; o sexto será dedicado aos aspectos regulatórios, conceito, características e campo de aplicação do 'Recebimento Antecipado de Exportação'; o sétimo analisará os aspectos contratuais inerentes à operação de financiamento pré-exportação; o oitavo e o nono serão dedicados ao estudo das garantias, sobretudo no que diz respeito à preservação de bens e direitos outorgados em garantia, com vistas ao reembolso do capital ao financiador estrangeiro. Sob esse prisma, serão analisados os principais elementos do financiamento estruturado à exportação brasileira de commodities, a fim de contribuir com o aprimoramento e a divulgação dessas técnicas empresariais e jurídicas (ainda restritas a um público especialíssimo) engendradas em prol do desenvolvimento econômico brasileiro.

Master‘s thesis shows the value of the company and possible active export products to foreign markets. Parts the work are also of important information, analysis and solutions on how best to use this process in the company's favor. The firm could face a situation where it is possible to achieve considerable competitive advantage.