Dr. P.V. Viswanath

pviswanath@pace.edu

Class Notes and Spreadsheets

FIN 649 Notes: International Corporate Finance (based on Maurice Levi, International Finance)
Primary Materials

• Comments from Class
• Important Terms, Concepts and Learning Objectives
• Chap. 1: The World of International Finance (Slides)
  Why Countries Trade
• Chapters 2 and 3: The Markets for Foreign Exchange (Slides)
  Computation of Cross Rates
• Chapter 4: Foreign Exchange Futures and Options (Slides)
• Chapters 5 and 6: The Determination of Exchange Rates (Slides)
  Foreign Exchange Market Intervention
• Chapters 7 and 8: The Fundamental International Parity Conditions (Slides)
  • Additional Slides on PPP and IRP
• Chapters 9-12: Managing Foreign Exchange Exposure
• Chapter 9: Foreign Exchange Exposure and Risk (Slides)
• Chapter 10: Accounting Exposure versus Real Exposure (Slides)
• Chapter 11: Operating Exposure (Slides)
• Chapter 12: Hedging Risk and Exposure (Slides)
• Additional Slides:
  • Measuring and Managing Translation and Transaction Exposure (Slides)
  • Measuring and Managing Economic Exposure (Slides)
• Chapter 16: Capital Budgeting for Foreign Investments(Slides)
  Additional slides on Global Capital Structure

FIN 649 Notes: International Corporate Finance
Supplementary Materials

• Settlement Risk In Foreign Exchange Transactions (related to Chapter 2)
  Report prepared by the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems of the central banks of the Group of Ten countries,Basle, March 1996