Class Meeting session and Days |
Topics
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Projects
and other Deadlines |
Session 1
September 13 |
Chapter 1: Multinational Enterprise
and Multinational Financial Management |
Read article "Why trade is good for you," from Media
Articles page.
Read article "Trade Theory vs. Used Clothes in Africa,"
from Media Articles page.
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Session 2
September 20 |
Chapter 2: The Determination
of Exchange Rates |
Read article "Outsourcing
101" from Media Articles
page.
Read article and answer questions -- "Dollar Firms Up,"
from Media Articles page.
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Session 3
September 27 |
Chapter 3: The International
Monetary System |
Read "Meltzer Report"
and the "Meltzer Rebuttal" from the Media Articles Page |
Session 4
October 4 |
Chapter
4: Parity Conditions in International Finance and Currency Forecasting
(slides) |
Read "Should we still support
untrammelled Capital Mobility" and write a summary of the article.
You can find this under Documents on the class Blackboard site. |
Session 5
October 11 |
Chapter
7: The Foreign Exchange Market (slides) |
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Session 6
October 18 |
Chapter
7 (contd.) |
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Session 7
October 25 |
Chapter
9: Swaps and Interest Rate Derivatives (Slides) |
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Session 8
November 1 |
Chapter 10: Measuring and Managing Translation and Transaction Exposure
(Powerpoint Slides)
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Midterm |
Session 9
November 8 |
Chapter
10 (contd.) |
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Session 10
November 15 |
Chapter
11: Measuring and Managing Economic Exposure |
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Session 11
November 22 |
Chapter 12: International Financing and National Capital Markets
Chapter 13: The Euromarkets |
Project/Assignment
on Management of Foreign Exchange Exposure due |
Session 12
November 29 |
Chapter 14:
The Cost of Capital for Foreign Investments (Slides) |
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Session 13
December 6
|
Final
Exam
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