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Dewey Decimal Number: 658.1599 EAN: 9780205160075 Edition: 5th ISBN: 0205160077 Label: Prentice Hall Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 844 Publication Date: 1996-01 Publisher: Prentice Hall Studio: Prentice Hall Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: * Integrates economic and political factors underlying exchange rate determination. * Uses the balance-of-payments framework to assess economic links among nations. * Presents a comprehensive discussion of the foreign exchange market. * Discusses the key parity conditions in international finance that relate interest rates, exchange rates, and inflation rates, and the underlying arbitrage considerations that determine them-along with numerous real-world applications. * Presents distinctions between real and nominal exchange rates and between accounting and economic exposure and their significance for exchange risk management. * Provides a comprehensive discussion of the mechanisms multinational firms use to manage interaffiliate fund flows on a global basis. * Presents the underpinnings of financial markets and the implications for international capital flows. * Presents specialized financing and risk management techniques. * Discusses the assessment of the cost of capital for foreign investments. * Discusses the nature and consequences of international portfolio investment, including emerging market investments. * Presents the development of global strategies of multinational corporations. * Provides the means for analyzing foreign investments. * Covers political risk measurement and management. * Includes a number of distinctive pedagogical features including real-world examples, vignettes, illustrations, and hundreds of realistic end-of-chapter questions and problems. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - 5 starsThe book was in excellent condition. I bought it brand new. It was packaged in a way so as to keep it looking new. This book was prescribed and part of the course I took in MBA program. Love the book, its very interesting. Rating: - Multinational Financial ManagementIt is use full, but if I didn't have it for a class I would not purchase it. Rating:  - Verbose and ObtuseI used this book for the first and last time in Autumn term 2006 with 28 foreign students in my Global Finance MBA course. When one wishes to make money by consistently reissuing new editions he has an obligation to update it at least minimally, (The Paul Samuelson Rule). In this case Greed is not good. Hence, my exasperation when I open the 2006 edition of the book and on the first page learn that the currency of Belgium is the Belgian franc, the currency of Ireland is the pound,(Ireland's ... Read More Rating: - Sometimes WordyThis is one of the better books for a course in international finance. It has cases in the text, which allows the student to get the real world intuition of the topics that are being covered. This is not a text that only extends capital budgeting to an international setting, it also includes some concepts borrowed from international economics (e.g. purchasing power parity, interest rate parity, covered interest arbitrage, etc.). It also looks into some risk management practices that are relevant for multinational ... Read More Rating: - Good Introduction to the Subject, in Some Parts too BriefThe book "Multinational Financial Management" is a good introduction to this rather complex subject. It is written well and contains a lot of examples and historical references. Some of the chapters in the second part are kept a tad too short though. The book covers the main topics of international financial management, the environment of international financial management, foreign exchange and derivatives market and risk management, financing of multinational corporations, foreign investment analysis and ... Read More 
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