Foreign Exchange Issues, Capital Markets and International Banking in the 1990s (RLE Banking & Finance)

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Preface. 1. Introduction. Part 1: Foreign Exchange rules. 2. Diversified Expectations and Speculation in the Foreign Exchange Market. 3. Pricing Options on a Constrained Currency Index: Some Simulation Results. 4. Exchange Rate Variations and U.S.Multinational Corporations’ Profits: The Case of the 1980s. 5. Real Exchange Rate and the Sectoral Composition of Output: Some Evidence from Japan. 6. Time-Varying Risk Premia and the Efficiency of the New Zealand Foreign Exchange Market 7. European Monetary Integration: Theoretical Issues and Practical Implementations. Part 2: Capital Markets 8. Optimal Leverage of a Dynamically Competitive Firm 9. Is Diversification in International Capital markets Beneficial? Issues, Evidence and Prospects. 10. International Co-movements of Capital Markets: Evidence from Two Scandinavian Stock Markets. 11. Defeased Debt in International Capital Markets: Benefits and Problems. 12. Deregulation of Financial Institutions: Lessons from the North American Experience with Savings and Loan Associations. 13. The ‘Round-Tripping’ Effect of Debt-Equity Swaps 14. Emerging Capital Markets and Economic Development Part 3: International Financial Management. 15. Conditional Heteroskedasticity in Stock Returns: International Evidence 16. Effects of Monetary Gains and Losses on the Univariate Time-Series Characteristics of CDA Earnings. 17. Survival Analysis of Business Failures 18. Stakeholder Objectives and Government Incentives in East European Joint Ventures. David C Bangert. Part 4: International Banking and External Debt. 19. Export Earnings Indexed Debt: Risk-Reduction and Linking External Debt to Exports 20. The International Finance Corporation and Banks: IFC Syndications of its LDC Investments. 21. Some Issues in External Debt, Domestic Policies and Economic Development 22 MIGA: A New Kid on the Block. Index.