International Finance FINA 7360

Textbooks and Other Required Elements
Required:
Lecture Notes for FINA 7360 (LN), available through this homepage.
Old Exams (they will be available through this homepage, two weeks before each exam).

Recommended:
International Financial Markets: Prices and Policies, 2nd Edition, by Richard M. Levich. Irwin McGraw-Hill, 2002.
International Financial Management, 2nd Edition, by Cheol S. Eun and Bruce G. Resnick. Irwin McGraw-Hill, 2000.
(One of them would be enough. You can buy these books through Internet vendors.)

Other Material: You should also download the LN cases, available through this homepage. You should bring a financial calculator to the second midterm (you should know how to use it).

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Mondays 3:30-4:25 and Wednesdays: 9:00:9:30 (MH 210D) or by appointment.
Telephone: 743-4763
FAX: 743-4789
e-mail: rsusmel@uh.edu

Outline of the course

Review
Review Chapter. It will not be covered in class. It will be assumed that you read it.

PART 1.- Foreign Exchange Rates and Currency Risk Management
LN I-II-III-IV-V. Assignment: Case 1 (LN V)
LN VI-VII-VIII. Assignment: Case 2 (LN VIII)

PART 2.- International Portfolio Investment
LN XVII. Assignment: Case 3 (LN XVII).
LN IX-X-XI. Assignment: Case 4 (LN X). Country Report.
LN XII. Assignment: Case 5 (LN XII).

PART 3.- Interest Rate Derivatives in International Markets
LN XIII. Assignment: Case 6 (LN XIII).
LN XIV. Assignment: Case 7 (LN XIV).
LN XV. Assignement: Case 8 (LN XV).

PART 4.- Gold Market (If time allows)
LN XVI.

Exams and Grading
Final grades will be determined as a weighted average of scores on the midterms, a paper, a presentation and class participation, with the following weights:

Midterms - October 1 and November 19 -tentative dates	50% (all exams are open book)
Paper - October 29	15%
Homework (cases) -due on case presentation dates	16%
Case Presentation - TBA	15%
Class Participation	4%

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