The course aims at providing a solid understanding of international finance within a complex
capital markets context. It emphasizes the managerial perspective of finance for a
multinational corporation (MNC). Based on macroeconomic and institutional foundations,
advanced techniques and instruments for managing the foreign exchange exposure and risk
of MNCs are developed. The course further addresses international banking and money
markets. Students are prepared to, and provided with the skills required for, international
investment management, cross-border acquisitions, international capital budgeting, and
multinational cash management and trade financing.Considerable attention is directed to specific topics
of international finance such as foreign exchange markets, managing exchange rate risk and various other
risk management issues.
- Teacher: Daniel K. Mulindwa