International Finance (AF4323) 2010/2011 Semester Two Time & Venue: Tue 13:30-16:20‚ N116 Course Description: This course introduces students to various international financial markets and instruments‚ and examines their implications for the financial management of firms and investors. We first examine the foreign exchange market and the different exchange rate systems that different countries adopt‚ paying special attention to currency board system. Although we study various approaches
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International Finance Presentation notes for years 2005-Present: Year 2005: * The Growth of China and India as World Financial Powers. The rise of China and India as world financial powers is nothing short of amazing. Economists estimate that both nations can grow at the rate of 7-8% for decades to come. China‚ alone‚ has grow at about 9.6% for the past two decades. Together‚ the two countries account for one-third of the world’s population. Countries like the United States initially
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operating risk and financing risk are relatively small but the political risk is very high. Creeping expropriation and moral hazard are realistic threats to the project. The high sovereign risk is reflected in the hurdle rate. The hurdle rate amounts to a much higher value than the internal rate of return. Therefore‚ it is not feasible for the sponsors to undertake the proposed investment in the project. Regarding the financing gap of $250m; participation of the IFC is quintessential as commercial bankers
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Overview of Relevant Formulas Corporate Finance (B40.2302) _________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Present value of $1 to be received after t years at discount rate r: 2. Present value of annuity of $1 per year for t years at discount rate r: $1 (1 + r )t ⎡1 − (1 + r ) − t ⎤ ⎢ ⎥ × $1 r ⎣ ⎦ 1 ⎡ (1 + g )t ⎤ 3. Present value of growing annuity of $1 at rate g per year at discount rate r: ⎢1 − ⎥ × $1 r − g ⎣ (1 + r )t ⎦ $1 r 4. Present value
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International Finance Konstantinos Mavromatis UvA‚ Department of Economics Today’s Focus • • • • Forex Market Efficiency UIP CIP Carry Trade and the Recent Financial Crisis Forex market efficiency • Fama‚ Eugene (J. of Finance‚ 1991): – “I take the market efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information. [...] market efficiency per se is not testable. It must be tested jointly with some model of equilibrium
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International finance FIN 412 Exam #2 MC: Examples of "single-currency interest rate swap" and "cross-currency interest rate swap" are: A. fixed-for-floating rate interest rate swap‚ where one counterparty exchanges the interest payments of a floating- rate debt obligations for fixed-rate interest payments of the other counter party B. fixed-for-fixed rate debt service (currency swap)‚ where one counterparty exchanges the debt service obligations of a bond denominated in one currency for
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understanding the determinants of corporate investment‚ financing‚ hedging‚ payout‚ and executive compensation policies. The course will provide an analysis of the determinants of each policy as well as the implications for shareholder value. While the basic economic insights will be presented through simple examples‚ the course is quantitative in nature. Course material The reference textbook is Corporate Finance by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo‚ Pearson International Edition‚ 2nd Edition‚ (BDM hereafter)
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International Finance – FINC 4521 – Chapter 5 – Sample Problems and Answers 1. Suppose the spot ask exchange rate‚ Sa($|£)‚ is $2.10 = £1.00 and the spot bid exchange rate‚ Sb($|£)‚ is $2.07 = £1.00. If you were to buy $5‚000‚000 worth of British pounds and then sell them five minutes later without the bid or ask changing‚ how much of your $5‚000‚000 would be "eaten" by the bid-ask spread? 2. The dollar-euro exchange rate is $1.5968 = €1.00 and the dollar-yen exchange rate is ¥108.0030 = $1.00
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Introduction In some ways the United States and Japanese are the biggest competitors in the international trade because both countries are producing many of the same goods. For example‚ Toshiba’s biggest competitor in the personal computer is Dell. After the emergence of world trade organization the volume of the international trade has increased too large and countries are actively participating in the trade to push their gross domestic product. This active participation in the trade allows
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Agency Problems Management Structure of an MNC Why Fimrs Pursue International Business Theory of Comparative Advantage Imperfect Markets Theory Product Cycle Theory How Firms Engage in International Business International Trade Licensing Franchising Joint Ventures Acquisitions of Existing Operations Establishing New Foreign Subsidiaries Summary of Methods Valuation Model for an MNC Domestic Model Valuing International Cash Flows Uncertainty Surrounding an MNCs Cash Flows Uncertainty
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