218 International Finance

Haas School

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Here's the syllabus in Adobe's PDF format.

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Here are four examples of past applied projects in this class (PDF):

• Argentina: An Assesment of it Devaluation Risk.
• Valuation of a Cross Border Future Flow Receivables Securitization.
• Multiple-Currency Investment Strategies to Take Advantage of the Forward Bias.
• Beating the Hang Seng.

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Here are some useful web pages for the applied projects in this class:

• Long Library: Electronic resources for BA 218.

· Long Library: Datastream tutorial.

· Central Banks: Links to all (BIS).

· Central Banks: Another good resource.

· The Fed: Exchange rate data (daily).

· NBER: Working papers.

· IMF: Publications.

· IMF: Details on different countries' published statistics.

· International Finance Corporation: Emerging Markets database.

· Brady Bonds: facts and figures.

· The Economist: news and analysis.

· J.P. Morgan: Details on their risk management system, RiskMetrics.

· Morgan Stanley: Commentary on miscellaneous international macro topics.

· T. Rowe Price: Global bond investing.

· Paul Krugman: Articles on int'l topics.

· Nouriel Roubini: Articles on the Asian Crisis.

· Campbell Harvey: References and tools for on int'l finance.

· Data: Exchange rates.

Please let me know of other useful sites I should add. Thanks.