Iceland Business Forecast Report

Published: September 25 2009 Quarterly   

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The Iceland Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Iceland.

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Report Description

The Iceland Business Forecast Report helps businesses with Icelandic market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Iceland and is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in the Icelandic market.

An influential new analysis of Iceland's political, economic and financial prospects through end-2013, just published by award-winning forecasters, Business Monitor International.

Key Uses

  • Forecast the pace and stability of Iceland's economic and industry growth through end-2013
  • Identify and evaluate adverse political and economic trends in Iceland, to facilitate risk mitigation strategies
  • Assess critical shortcomings of Iceland's business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability
  • Contextualise Iceland's country risks against European regional peers using BMI's country comparative risk ratings system
  • Target business opportunities in Iceland's high-growth industry sectors
  • Evaluate external threats to doing business in Iceland, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies

The Iceland Business Forecast Report by Business Monitor International includes these sections: Iceland's Political Outlook, Iceland's Economic Outlook and Iceland's Monetary Policy

Iceland's Political Outlook:

What are the political risks to doing business in Iceland over the next 5-years?

BMI's Iceland Country Risk Ratings evaluate the short- and medium-term threats posed by government instability, adverse economic policy-making, deterioration in the business environment and external shocks.

We examine Iceland's political stability and risk assessment, administration and policy-making and Icelandic foreign policy.

Key Benefits

  • Benchmark Iceland's risk profile against its neighbours, the global and regional average, allowing easy comparison of risks between key business markets.
  • Identify, evaluate and anticipate political and security risks to the business environment in Iceland, and to your company's current operations and future plans.
  • Gain valuable insights into the Icelandic government and policy-making, through BMI's specialist team of analysts and economists, and their exclusive network of private and public sector sources.

Iceland's Economic Outlook:

How will Icelandic economic policy-making and performance impact corporate profitability over 2009-13?

BMI provides our fully independent 5-year forecasts for Iceland through end- 2013 for more than 35 macroeconomic variables. We evaluate Icelandic growth, and also forecast the impact of economic management, including central bank policy, on profitability.

Iceland Economic Outlook Contents

The Iceland Business Forecast Report features explicit BMI economic forecasts for Iceland, with supporting commentary and analysis, for end-2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 set against Icelandic government views. Underpinning our forecasts are key assumptions for the global economy through end- 2013 , covering growth, inflation, employment, trade and investment, interest and exchange rates in the US, Japan and the Euro-zone.

Coverage of Key Economic Issues in Iceland

  • Economic Activity in Iceland
    Real GDP growth; industrial growth; employment growth; inflation and consumer prices; consumption (indicative wages, retail sales, consumer confidence)
  • Fiscal Policy in Iceland
    Current macroeconomic strategy and implementation policies; government finance (revenue, expenditure, budget balance); tax reforms
  • Monetary Policy in Iceland
    Interest rate trends (bank lending and deposit rates); inflation (retail price inflation, consumer price inflation); exchange rate policy in Iceland; Icelandic currency controls; influence of foreign direct investment inflows; exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves
  • Balance of Payments in Iceland
    Merchandise trade (exports, imports, trade balance); current account balance
  • Foreign Direct Investment in Iceland
    Foreign direct investment approvals and inflows; the foreign investment climate
  • Icelandic External Debt
    Debt profile (short- and long-term debt; public and private sector exposure)

Key Benefits

  1. Rely upon BMI's 100% independent Forecast Scenarios for Iceland and underlying assumptions - we take no advertising and are privately-owned.
  2. Exploit the benefits of BMI's comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic database, sourced and fully maintained by BMI from an extensive network of private sector, government and multilateral contacts.
  3. Gain key insights into the current and future direction of Icelandic government economic policy

Iceland Monetary Policy

Who buys European Business Forecast Reports?

The Iceland Business Forecast Report is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in Iceland.

Our Business Forecast Reports are relied upon by corporates, banks, government departments and multinational organisations around the world.

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