Courses
ECON7220 International Finance (3 units)
This course provides students with fundamental 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 analyses 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) introducing important international macroeconomic concepts relevant for the current financial environment; (2) describing the foreign exchange rate market, the exchange rate determinations with its theoretical analysis and forecasting, and the foreign exchange risk and its management; (3) evaluating international portfolio investment strategies and foreign exchange risk management.