Foreign Exchange Issues, Capital Markets and International Banking in the 1990s (RLE Banking & Finance) Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance Series

The need for continued analysis and evaluation of the international financial system is as pressing now as it was when this book was originally published. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of certain aspects of the international financial system. Specifically it addresses four of the most important financial and monetary issues of the present time: exchange rate, capital markets, international banking and external debt and international financial management.

Preface. 1. Introduction. Part 1: Foreign Exchange rules. 2. Diversified Expectations and Speculation in the Foreign Exchange Market. 3. Pricing Options on a Constrained Currency Index: Some Simulation Results. 4. Exchange Rate Variations and U.S.Multinational Corporations’ Profits: The Case of the 1980s. 5. Real Exchange Rate and the Sectoral Composition of Output: Some Evidence from Japan. 6. Time-Varying Risk Premia and the Efficiency of the New Zealand Foreign Exchange Market 7. European Monetary Integration: Theoretical Issues and Practical Implementations. Part 2: Capital Markets 8. Optimal Leverage of a Dynamically Competitive Firm 9. Is Diversification in International Capital markets Beneficial? Issues, Evidence and Prospects. 10. International Co-movements of Capital Markets: Evidence from Two Scandinavian Stock Markets. 11. Defeased Debt in International Capital Markets: Benefits and Problems. 12. Deregulation of Financial Institutions: Lessons from the North American Experience with Savings and Loan Associations. 13. The ‘Round-Tripping’ Effect of Debt-Equity Swaps 14. Emerging Capital Markets and Economic Development Part 3: International Financial Management. 15. Conditional Heteroskedasticity in Stock Returns: International Evidence 16. Effects of Monetary Gains and Losses on the Univariate Time-Series Characteristics of CDA Earnings. 17. Survival Analysis of Business Failures 18. Stakeholder Objectives and Government Incentives in East European Joint Ventures. David C Bangert. Part 4: International Banking and External Debt. 19. Export Earnings Indexed Debt: Risk-Reduction and Linking External Debt to Exports 20. The International Finance Corporation and Banks: IFC Syndications of its LDC Investments. 21. Some Issues in External Debt, Domestic Policies and Economic Development 22 MIGA: A New Kid on the Block. Index.

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