Contents
         1. What is intemational money all about?
         The foreign exchange markets
         Eurocurrency markets
         2. The essence of currency calculations
         Foreign exchange markets
         Inflation, interest and exchange rates
         Practicalities
         An overview
         Appendix: A deductive proof of the four-way equivalence
         model
         3. How are foreign exchange rates quoted?
         The players
         Methods of quotation
         Forward contracts and quotations
         An overview
         4. What makes exchange rates move?
         The balance of payments approach
         The monetary approach
         Chartism
         The effident markets hypothesis
         An overview
         5. What is foreign exchange risk?
         Transaction exposure
         Translation exposure
         Economic exposure
         An overview
         6. Why worry about foreign exchange risk?
         Transaction exposure
         Economic exposure
         Translation exposure
         An overview
         7. Internal techniques of managing foreign exchange
         exposure
         Netting
         Matching
         Leading and lagging
         Price variation
         Invoicing in foreign currency
         Asset and liability management
         An overview
         8. External techniques of managing foreign exchange
         exposure
         Forward markets
         Trading purpose of the forward market
         Short-tenn borrowing
         Discounting foreign currency denominated bills receivable
         Factoring foreign currency denonunated receivables
         Currency overdrafts
         Government exchange risk guarantees
         An overview
         9. What are currency swaps?
         Swaps
         An overview
         10. What are finandal futures on foreign exchange?
         Financial futures in general
         Currency contracts
         An overview
         11. How do currency options work?
         How currency option markets work
         Currency option strategies
         Option pricing models
         Corporate use of currency options
         An overview
         12. Interest rate risk
         The term stmcture of interest rates
         Forward rate agreements
         Interest rate futures
         Interest rate swaps
         Interest rate options
         An overview
         13. The value of growth options
         An example using decision trees
         Flexibility and value creation
         The Black and Scholes model
         Another example with dedsion trees
         An overview
         14. Is the international investment dedsion different?
         The international complications
         An overview
         15. Is the international financing decision different?
         The Eurobond market
         Borrowing intemationally
         The risks of borrowing internationally
         An overview
         16. The European Monetary System
         Principal features of the EMS
         The Exchange Rate Mechanism
         European Monetary Union
         German reunification
         Black Wednesday
         The wake of Black Wednesday
         An overview
         17. Why hedge anyway?
         the capital asset pricing model
         What does exposure management aim to achieve?
         The arguments against corporate hedging
         Employees and managers
         And shareholders too
         The value of the firm
         Financial distress
         An overview
         18. Economic exposure revisited
         Macroeconomic exposure
         The analysis
         Hedging
         Interest rates invariably key
         Experiments with macroeconomic exposure
         An overview
         Questions and answers
         Numerical questions
         Bramit Investment Trust plc
         Answers to numerical questions
         Suggested answers to the Bramit Investment Trust
         questions
         Further reading
         Index
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