Based on the capital structure theories, discuss how firms make financing decisions. In general, what are major factors to consider when making capital structure decisions? For multinational firms, what are the additional factors to consider when marking financing decisions? You can base your discussion on the research paper “The Corporate Finance of Multinational Firms”. You can download the paper from SSRN at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3535761 or from iLearn. 2. Find a real corporate financing case of a multinational firm and demonstrate how the multinational firm raise capital in practice. Discuss whether it is consistent with capital theories or not and explain why or why not. What are the obstacles (e.g., government interventions) confronting the capital raising of the multinational firm? Note: in your discussion, you should first briefly describe the case. You can use some data from corporate financial report, press release, earnings conference call and some charts to support your arguments. 2 3. Discuss how the rise of nationalism will affect the international financial markets and corporate financing decisions of both domestic and multinational firms. 4. What will likely to be the trend post COVID-19 crisis? (Additional question for Master of Research student only.)