SFB12604 International Finance (Spring 2012)
Facts about the course
- ECTS Credits:
- 10
- Responsible faculty:
- Avdeling for økonomi, språk og samfunnsfag
- Course Leader:
- Roswitha Maria Berta King
- Duration:
- ½ year
Table of contents
The course is affiliated to the following study programme
Prerequisites
Teaching semester
Content
- Foreign exchange markets
- Financial management
- International parity conditions
- Hedging foreign exchange
- Interest rate exposure
- Futures and options
- International portfolio diversification
- Foreign investment and capital budgeting
- Corporate governance
Teaching and learning methods
Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam
Exam
Four hours written examination
Aids allowed: calculator, mother tongue - English - mother tongue dictionary.
Grades: A - F.
The students have the right to complain on the grades given on the written examination.
Course evaluation
To improve the course, we need the evaluations from the students. The course is evaluated by the students in the middle and in the end of the semester.
The evaluations from the students are treated by the staff and the comitee for programme quality and internationalization.
Reading list
The readinglist was last updated 15 Jun 2011
Eiteman, David K., Arthur I. Stonehill and Michael H. Moffett (2009). Multinational Business Finance, 12th ed. . Boston: Pearson / Addison Wesley. 848 s.
Supplementary literature:
Sercu, Piet and Raman Uppdal (1995). International financial markets and the firm. Cincinnati, Ohio : South-Western College Pub. Co. 731 s.
Sarno, Lucio and Mark P. Taylor (2002). The economics of exchange rates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 318 s.