Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Candelon Bertrand;
Language
English
Main themes
We set up a framework for:
- understanding how international financial conditions influence the decision-making process of modern business leaders in the corporate and capital markets arenas.
- understanding the characteristics, institutions, and players of the exchange rate markets.
- exploring exchange rate regimes
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
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During their programme, students of the LSM Master's in management or Master's in Business engineering will have developed the following capabilities'
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The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
- The globalization and the multinational corporation
- The foreign exchange market
- Exchange rate models: short term and long term models
- Exchange rate determination and forecasting
- Speculation and risk in the foreign exchange rate market
- International debt and equity financing
- International capital market equilibrium
- Country and political risk
Teaching methods
Lectures, workshops led by industry experts, assignments
Evaluation methods
Final exam, assignment
Bibliography
- International Financial Management (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Series in Finance) - 2nd Edition by Geert J Bekaert and Robert J. Hodrick - Bloomberg market concepts: exchange rate module
Faculty or entity
CLSM
