Table of Contents

Part One: Foundations of International Financial Management
Chapter 1: Globalization and the Multinational Firm
Chapter 2: International Monetary System
Chapter 3: Balance of Payments
Chapter 4: Corporate Governance Around the WorldPart Two: The Foreign Exchange Market, Exchange Rate Determination, and Currency Derivatives
Chapter 5: The Market for Foreign Exchange
Chapter 6: International Parity Relationships and Forecasting Foreign Exchange Rates
Chapter 7: Futures and Options on Foreign ExchangePart Three: Foreign Exchange Exposure and Management
Chapter 8: Management of Transaction Exposure
Chapter 9: Management of Economic Exposure
Chapter 10: Management of Translation ExposurePart Four: World Financial Markets and Institutions
Chapter 11: International Banking and Money Market
Chapter 12: International Bond Market
Chapter 13: International Equity Markets
Chapter 14: Interest Rate and Currency Swaps
Chapter 15: International Portfolio InvestmentPart Five: Financial Management of the Multinational Firm
Chapter 16: Foreign Direct Investment and Cross-Border Acquisitions
Chapter 17: International Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital
Chapter 18: International Capital Budgeting
Chapter 19: Multinational Cash Management
Chapter 20: International Trade Finance
Chapter 21: International Tax Environment and Transfer Pricing

About the Author

Cheol S. Eun is the Thomas R. Williams Professor of International Finance at the DuPree College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology. He has held appointments at the University of Minnesota, the University of Maryland where he received the Krowe Teaching Excellence Award, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Esslingen University of Technology in Germany. Professor Eun's research on international finance appears in leading research journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance and Management Science. Professor Eun chairs the annual Fortis/Georgia Tech Conference on International Finance the objectives of which are to promote research on international finance in a forum for academics, practitioners and regulators. He serves as a consultant to national and international organizations, including the World Bank and the Korean Development Institute, advising on capital market liberalization, global capital and exchange risk management. Bruce Resnick, Wake Forest University. Bruce G. Resnick is the Joseph M. Bryan Professor of Banking and Finance at the Babcock Graduate School of Management of Wake Forest. He has also taught at Indiana University, the University of Minnesota, California State University and at the Helsinki School of Economics. Professor Resnick has served as resident director of the Center for European Studies at the University of Limburg in the Netherlands. His research interests include efficiency of options and futures markets and empirical tests of asset pricing. A major focus is the optimal design of internationally diversified portfolios controlled for parameter uncertainty and exchange rate risk. In recent years, Professor Resnick has investigated international portfolio investment strategies applying information in the yield curve. His research has been published in major academic journals in finance. Bruce Resnick is an associate editor for the Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Multinational Financial Management and the Journal of Economics and Business.