International Capital Markets And Foreign Exchange Risk

Comprising 19 commissioned articles, this collection addresses the global issues of volatility in equity and foreign exchange markets and the regulatory scene in developed and emerging markets.

This paper discusses the extent to which national capital markets have become linked, and identifies several of the more important consequences of that increased degree of integration. Alternative approaches to the measurement of capital market integration are reviewed, including deviations from the law of one price, differences between actual and optimally diversified portfolios, correlations between domestic investment and domestic saving, and cross-country links in consumption behavior. Two recent episodes of large-scale international capital flows—namely, the turmoil in the European Monetary System in the fall of 1992, and the surge of capital inflows into Latin America during the last three years—are examined for insights into the workings of today’s global capital market. Finally, the paper offers some concluding remarks on the future development of international capital markets, on exchange rate management, on alternative approaches to living with larger and more influential financial markets, and on the financing of investment in the formerly centrally planned economies.

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This collection examines the emerging issues, and the basic questions and analytical structures, arising from increasingly globalized financial markets. Topics covered include: an in-depth study of the exchange rate market, equilibrium and efficiency, inflation and interest rates, capital movement, the balance of payments and international reserves, foreign debt, country risk analysis, currency market arbitrage and speculative designs under market imperfection, international tax issues and trade liberalization, offshore banking and related issues.

A relation between the volatilites of the pricing kernels for different currencies is derived under the assumption of integrated capital markets, and the volatility of the pricing kernel is related to the foreign exchange risk premium.

The purpose of this text is to analyze the key financial markets and instruments that facilitate trade and investment activity on a global scale. It spans two key areas: First-the economic determinants of prices, price changes and price relationships in the major financial markets; Second-the policy issues that result from private enterprises and public policymakers.

Monograph desribing the role and operation of international financial markets - analyses origins of eurocurrencys and their impacts on world capital markets and economy, covers the mechanics of eurocredits, eurobonds, interactions among lenders, borrowers and investors and legal aspects, and analyses operations in capital market centres in Western Europe, the USA and Japan. Bibliography pp. 279 and 280, graphs and statistical tables.