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International Monetary Relations

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 114-0411/03
Abbreviation MMV
Course title International Monetary Relations
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Economics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Aleš Melecký, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Foreign exchange markets and their microstructure.
- The function and structure of the foreign exchange market
- Bodies involved in the foreign exchange markets
- Interbank Foreign Exchange Market
- Spot and forward transactions

Second Forwards and swaps.
- The establishment and development of futures transactions
- Forward contracts
- Swap contracts
- Compared to other currency derivatives (futures, options)

3rd Exchange rate risk and exchange rate exposure.
- The characteristics of foreign exchange exposure and currency risk
- Transaction exposure
- Economic exposure
- Translational exposure

4th The globalization of financial markets and international banking.
- Development and characteristics of the financial market?
- New forms of international financing
- The expected trends in the financial system

5th Euromoney markets and euroúvěry.
- Creation euroměnových instrument?
- Types euroúvěr?
- The procedure for opening euroúvěru
- Markets euronotes

6th Eurobonds.
- Eurobond market
- Forms eurobligací
- Entrants eurobligací

7th Organization and Eurobond
- Providing a course Eurobond
- The costs of emissions eurobligací
- Global bonds

8th Euroakcie.
- Emissions shares foreign markets
- Foreign shares
- Global equities

9th International portfolio investment.
- International investment and risk diversification
- Foreign investment and CAPM
- Selection of international portfolio

10th Foreign direct investment
- International capital budgeting
- Analysis of country risk
- International Taxation

11th Macroeconomic models Determination exchange rates.
- The asset market model
- Determination of the course in the long term
- Modern theories of exchange rate determination

12th Forecasting exchange rates.
- Fundamental Analysis - the traditional theory of exchange rate
- Technical Analysis
- The relationship between fundamental and technical analysis

13th The financial crisis and forecasting.
- Types and characteristics of financial crisis
- Analysis of the causes of the crisis
- Forecasting models

14th Analysis of the current account balance of payments
- The structure of its balance of payments and balancing
- The sustainability of the current account deficit
- Intertemporal approach to the current account

Literature

MOFFETT, Michael H., Arthur I. STONEHILL a David K. EITEMAN. Fundamentals of multinational finance. Ed. 4th. Upper Saddle River: Pearson, c2012. ISBN 978-0-13-282991-5.
MADURA, Jeff. International financial management. London: Cengage Learning, 2017. ISBN 978-1473725508 .

Advised literature

SHAPIRO, Alan C. Multinational Financial Management. 10th ed., Wiley, 2013. ISBN 978-1118572382 .
EITEMAN, David K., Arthur I. STONEHILL a Michael H. MOFFETT. Multinational Business Finance. 14th ed., Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2016. ISBN 978-0133879872 .
BYFORD, M., and MANKIW, G. Principles of Macroeconomics: Australian Edition. 6th edition, South Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia, 2014. ISBN 9780170248518 , 536pp.