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The Currency Game: Why a Strong Peso Hurts Exporters

Run a Costarian mango exporter through three exchange-rate scenarios — a 20% peso appreciation, a 20% depreciation, and a high-volatility regime — and learn why a strong currency hurts exporters, why depreciation is a transfer not a free lunch, and how to build a defensible hedging policy.

3 rounds MBA & Masters English, Español
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Who it is for

An intermediate simulation for participants who already know the core concepts of the subject, designed for master's and MBA programmes.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: The Strong Peso.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • USD price increase (%)
  • Local cost cut (%)
  • Mechanise one packing line
  • EU diversification (%)
  • Windfall strategy
  • Forward hedge ratio (%)
  • Forward contracts (%)
  • Currency options (%)
  • Natural hedges (%)
  • Currency invoicing (%)

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Executive Decisions

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in International Strategy.

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