Finance in Japan and Korea 2019-20

 (Option A)

With reference either to Japan or Korea, critically examine instrumental approaches/systems/policies for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) financing.

(Option B)

With reference either to Japan or Korea, critically discuss whether the financial system of the country is much stronger than it was before the financial crisis of 2008.

Notes

(1) Consult the general advice on assignment submission for SFAM which is available here on Moodle.

(2) Your coursework assignment should be written on either (A) or (B) in an academic manner, presenting your view carefully, justifying your view with rigour and discussion. Credit will be given for the use of appropriate concepts, models, data and examples, to illustrate your argument.

(3) Whilst the word limit is 3,000, you are required to state how many words you have written. The word count should include the main text, including all references, footnotes, tables and quotations, but not the bibliography or appendices.

(4) Your assignment must be properly referenced. Further information on referencing (i.e. the Harvard system) is available from https://www.soas.ac.uk/ltd/studyskills/helpyourself/file78841.docx

(5) There are numerous books and resources on academic essay writing. For example, I find that the following pdf documents from the national university of Singapore are very useful for students. www.nus.edu.sg/celc/research/books/cwtuc/chapter01.pdf  (You need to change /chapter01.pdf to 02, 03,,,10 for the subsequent chapters when you  download           each chapter) As for citing sources, have a quick read the following information. http://ctl.yale.edu/writing/using-sources

(6) My last but not least advice is to avoid unreliable web information. See “Special Demands of Internet Sources” from http://ctl.yale.edu/writing/using-sources/citing-internet-sources#Special