The Question: What are the global implications of the current US financial crisis? (January 12)
The Tools: What we need to learn before we can answer the question.
1. What is international finance? (January 14)
2. An Introduction to International Capital Markets (January 28)
3. How do businesses finance imports and exports, and why it does it matter? Trade Financing (February 2)
4. Arbitrage, Speculation and the Forward Exchange Market
5. Portfolio Theory and International Capital Flows
6. Theories of Exchange Rate Determination
Learning from Past Crises:
- The Latin American Debt Crisis
- The Tequila Crisis
- The Japanese Depression of the 1990s
- The Asian Financial Crisis
- The 2008 US Financial Crisis
Answering the Question: What are the global implications of the 2008 U.S. Financial Crisis?