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    • Author/Creator:Evrensel, Ayse Y.
    • Title:International Finance For Dummies.
    • ISBN:9781118591826
      1118591828
      9781118591895
      1118591895
      9781118523896
      111852389X
      9781118591856 (ebk)
      9781118591918 (ebk)
    • Published/Created:New York : Wiley, 2013.
    • Physical Description:1 online resource (339 pages).
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    • Summary:Want to get the most out of your International Finance course? Nowadays the value of daily foreign exchange trading is more than one hundred times the value of annual international trade in goods and services. As result of the great importance of international financial transactions, the subject of international finance continues to develop as fast as-or faster than-any other field in economics and finance. International Finance For Dummies sheds light on this increasingly important subject for the growing number of students required to take this course. If you're an undergr.
    • Variant and related titles:O'Reilly Safari. OCLC KB.
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    • Format:Book
    • Series:For dummies
      --For dummies.
    • Contents:International Finance For Dummies®; About the Author; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; What You Are Not to Read; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Getting Started with International Finance; Chapter 1: Money Makes the World Go 'Round; Checking Out Definitions and Calculations; Finding Out What Determines (Or Changes) Exchange Rates; Getting to the Long and Short of It; Answering Questions about the System: Fixed, Flexible, or Pegged?
      Gaining Insight into the Do's and Don'ts of International FinanceLooking at Finance Globally; Chapter 2: Mastering the Basics of International Finance; Making the Exchange: Exchange Rates; Taking on Different Exchange Rates; Tackling Terminology: Changes in Exchange Rates; Grasping Exchange Rate Conversions; Calculating Cross Rates; Figuring the Bid-Ask Spread; Chapter 3: Buy, Sell, Risk! Users of Foreign Exchange Markets; Identifying Major Actors in Foreign Exchange Markets; Watching Out for Risk; Speculation: Taking a Risk to Gain Profit.
      Chapter 4: It's All about Change: Changes in the Exchange RateConsidering a Visual Approach to Changes in Exchange Rates; Looking at How Macroeconomic Variables Affect Exchange Rates; Uncovering Hidden Information in Graphs: Exchange Rate Regimes; Part II: Determining the Exchange Rate; Chapter 5: It's a Matter of Demand and Supply; Apples per Orange, Euros per Dollar: It's All the Same; Determining Exchange Rates through Supply and Demand; Predicting Changes in the Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate; Keeping It Straight: Using a Different Exchange Rate.
      Chapter 6: Setting Up the Monetary Approach to Balance of PaymentsDiscovering the MBOP's Approach to Exchange Rates; Explaining the Money Market; Taking On the Foreign Exchange Market; Combining the Money Market with the Foreign Exchange Market; Keeping It Straight: What Happens When You Use a Different Exchange Rate?; Chapter 7: Predicting Changes in Exchange Rates Based on the MBOP; Applying Real Shocks to MBOP; Applying Nominal Shocks to MBOP; Keeping It Straight: What Happens When We Use a Different Exchange Rate?; Comparing Predictions of MBOP and the Demand-Supply Model.
      Part III: Understanding Long-Term Concepts and Short-Term RisksChapter 8: Your Best Guess: The Interest Rate Parity (IRP); Tackling the Basics of Interest Rate Parity (IRP); Working with the IRP; Speculation Using the Covered Interest Arbitrage; Determining Whether the IRP Holds; Chapter 9: Taking a Bite Out of the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP); Getting a Primer on the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP); Working with the PPP; Deciding Whether the PPP Holds; Chapter 10: Minimizing the FX Risk: FX Derivatives; Checking Out FX Derivatives; Moving to Forward Contracts; Looking at Futures Contracts.
    • Issue number:EB00057899 Recorded Books
    • Subjects:International finance.
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