ABSTRACT

Published in 1999, this text aims to target International Finance and give the basic currency markets: the eurocurrency, the spot, the forward, the futures, and the options markets. It focuses on global financial management, foreign exchange markets, exchange rate determination, financing globalization, managing echange rate exposure, arbitrage and swaps, financing international trade, and the international monetary systems. It includes case studies at the end of each chapter.

chapter 1|7 pages

Managing globalization

chapter 4|20 pages

The instruments of trade policy

chapter 8|15 pages

The foreign exchange market

chapter 12|16 pages

Wendy’s franchising in Argentina

chapter 13|13 pages

Transnational investment

chapter 14|11 pages

Cuetara in Morocco

chapter 15|4 pages

Exchange rate risk management

chapter 16|12 pages

Cemex: Debt and exchange rate risk

chapter 19|11 pages

Controlling economic risk

chapter 20|9 pages

Giant manufacturing and globalization

chapter 21|9 pages

International arbitrage

chapter 22|11 pages

Note on international currency swaps

chapter 23|14 pages

The balance of payments

chapter 26|8 pages

The collapse of the Mexican peso

chapter 27|9 pages

The international monetary system