Critically examine the benefits and risks faced by investors in international options and give examples of how these risks are currently present in markets affected by Brexit and Covid-19.

The biggest barrier to investing in international markets is the added transaction cost. We are live in a relatively globalized and connected world, but transaction costs still vary greatly depending on which foreign market you are investing in. Brokerage commissions in international markets are almost always higher than U.S. rates.

    Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, levels and trends in domestic revenues and external flows to developing economies were already considered insufficient to support the Sustainable growth.  With high levels of public debt and additional pressures induced by the pandemic on all major sources of development finance, low and middle-income countries may struggle to finance their public health, social and economic responses to COVID-19.