The Changing Environment of International Financial Markets

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Changing Environment of International Financial Markets: Introduction

      • Dilip K. Ghosh, Edgar Ortiz

      Pages 3-22

3. Exchange Rate Markets

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Foreign Exchange Market Efficiency: A Look at London

      • John P. Lajaunie, Bruce L. McManis, Atsuyuki Naka

      Pages 25-34

   3. Freedom of Free Floating Exchange Rate: Empirical Analysis of Currency Fluctuation Patterns

      • M. Anaam Hashmi

      Pages 35-43

4. International Interest Rates

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Statistical Analyses of Eurocurrency and Treasury Interest Rates from 1975 to 1991

      • Charles Maxwell, Larry Guin

      Pages 47-55

   3. A Cross-Country Comparison of Consumer Discount Rates

      • William V. Weber, Jannett K. Highfill, Mathew J. Morey

      Pages 56-68

   4. The Interest Rate Parity, Covered Interest Arbitrage and Speculation under Market Imperfection

      • Dilip K. Ghosh

      Pages 69-79

5. Balance of Payments and International Reserves

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. An Empirical Test of the Demand for International Reserves

      • Anisul M. Islam, Moosa Khan, Muhammad M. Islam

      Pages 83-94

   3. An Intertemporal Interpretation of the US Current Account Deficit

      • Eric Youngkoo Lee, Michael Szenberg

      Pages 95-108

   4. Balance-of-Payments Implications of the Break-Up of the USSR for Its Former Republics and the East European Countries

      • M. Raquibuz Zaman

      Pages 109-121

6. Foreign Debt and Country Risk Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Foreign Exchange Dynamics, Debt and the ‘Peso Problem’

      • Dilip K. Ghosh

      Pages 125-138

   3. International Lending and Sovereign Debt in the Presence of Agency Costs: The Case of Mexico

      • Christopher A. Erickson, Elliott Willman

      Pages 139-146

   4. A New Look at Country Risk Analysis: An Analytical Approach to Judgmental Risk Scoring

      • Ramakrishnan S. Koundinya

      Pages 147-159

   5. Political Risk in Latin American Stock Markets: A Rational Expectations Approach

      • Benoit Carmichael, Jean-Claude Cosset, Klaus P. Fischer

      Pages 160-185

7. Capital Markets

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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This edited collection examines the emerging issues arising from increasingly globalized financial markets. Topics covered include: the exchange of rate market, equilibrium and efficiency, inflation and interest rates, capital movements, the balance of payments and international reserves, foreign debt, country risk analysis, currency market arbitrage and speculative designs under market imperfection, international tax issues and trade liberalization and offshore banking.

• capital market
• consumer
• corporate governance
• efficiency
• finance
• financial markets
• Inflation
• interest rates
• management
• risk management
• Treasury

• Suffolk University, USA

  Dilip K. Ghosh

• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, USA

  Edgar Ortiz

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