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Description of International Financial Markets

The purpose of this text is to analyze the key financial markets and instruments that facilitate trade and investment activity on a global scale. It spans two key areas: first - the economic determinants of prices, price changes and price relationships in the major financial markets; second - the policy issues that result from private enterprises and public policymakers.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780071181235

Pages:

709 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

23275

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill

Published:

01/04/2001

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

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Contents of International Financial Markets

I. Introduction and Overview
1. Introduction to the Study of International Financial Markets
2. An Overview of International Monetary Systems and Recent Developments in International Financial Markets
II. Foreign Exchange Markets
3. Market Structure and Institutions
4. International Parity Conditions: Purchasing Power Parity
5. International Parity Conditions: Interest Rate Parity and the Fisher Parities
6. Spot Exchange Rate Determination
7. Foreign Exchange Market Efficiency
8. Exchange Rate Forecasting
III. Offshore Financial Markets
9. The Eurocurrency Market
10. The Eurobond Market
IV. Derivative Security Markets: Futures, Options, and Swaps
11. Currency and Interest Rate Futures
12. Currency and Interest Rate Options
13. Currency and Interest Rate Swaps
V. International Asset Portfolios
14. Bond Portfolios
15. Equity Portfolios
VI. International Asset Portfolios and Financial Risk Management
16. Measuring and Managing the Risk in International Financial Positions
VII. Regulatory Issues
17. Giving Direction to International Financial Markets: Regulation and Intervention in the Competitive Marketplace