Courses
ECON7220 International Finance (3 units)
This course provides students with an understanding of international finance concepts and applied techniques to international financial management and investment. This course focuses on the foreign exchange markets and international capital markets, and understands how international firms make financial decisions of foreign investment, and measure foreign exchange risk in the present global financial environment. The course is organized in three parts: (1) introduction of international financial environment and the important international macroeconomic concepts; (2) understanding the foreign exchange rate market, the exchange rate determinations with its theoretical analysis and forecasting, and the foreign exchange risk and its management; (3) focus on international portfolio investment strategies and the exchange risk management.