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Multinational Finance Course Summary: A Key Resource for Navigating Global Financial Management

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This summary provides an overview of essential concepts in multinational finance, including foreign exchange markets, international investment strategies, and risk management. Designed to help students understand the complexities of financial decision-making in a global context, this concise resource is perfect for exam preparation and practical application. Enhance your understanding of multinational finance with this valuable summary available on Stuvia!

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Contents
1 Lecture 1: An overview 7
1.1 MNCs (multinational corporations) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.1.1 Recalling agency theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.2 engaging in international business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2.1 absolute and comparative advantage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2.2 Imperfect market theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2.3 product cycle theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.2.4 Global strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.3 how to conduct international business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.3.1 international opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.3.2 Exposure to international risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.3.3 international cash flows: valuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.3.4 MNC decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.4 discussed in this lecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2 Lecture 2: International Flow of Funds 12
2.1 Balane of payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.2 Balance of payments: why? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.3 CETA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.4 world trade organisations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.4.1 Trade disagreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.5 Factors affecting international trade flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.6 current account ad exchange rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.6.1 Exchange rates effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.6.2 weak currency effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.6.3 Factors affecting international capital flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3 Lecture 3: international markets 17
3.1 Financial markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.1.1 foreign exchange markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.1.2 bid-ask spread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.1.3 currency derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.1.4 international money market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.1.5 international credit market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.1.6 International bond market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.1.7 International stock market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.1.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4 Lecture 4: Exchange rate determination 22
4.1 Exchange rate movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.2 Determination of equilibrium exchange rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22


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4.3 Factors affecting equilibrium exchange rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5 Lecture 5: currency derivatives 25
5.1 forward contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.2 Future contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.3 Currency call options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

6 Lecture 6: Exchange rate history and the role of governments 28
6.1 Government intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.1.1 direct intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.1.2 indirect intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.1.3 Intervention as a policy tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

7 Lecture 7: International arbitrage and interest rate parity 30
7.1 Locational arbitrage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7.2 Triangular arbitrage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7.3 Covered interest arbitrage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

8 Lecture 8: Relationships among inflation, interest rates, and exchange rates 33
8.1 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
8.2 Summary PPP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
8.3 international Fisher effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

9 Lecture 9: Forecasting exchange rates 36
9.1 technical forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
9.2 Fundamental forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
9.3 Market based forecasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
9.4 measuring forecast errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

10 Lecture 10: Measuring exposure to exchange rate fluctuations 39
10.1 relevancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
10.2 Types of exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
10.2.1 transaction exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
10.2.2 Economic exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
10.2.3 translation exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

11 Lecture 11: Managing transaction exposure 44
11.1 identify transaction exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
11.2 hedge transaction exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
11.2.1 Payables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
11.2.2 receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
11.2.3 Futures and forward hedge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
11.2.4 Real cost of hedging (RCH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45


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11.2.5 money market hedge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
11.2.6 currency option hedge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
11.2.7 Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
11.3 Hedging & risk aversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

12 Managing economic exposure and translation exposure 48
12.1 economic exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
12.1.1 Assessing economic exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
12.1.2 restructuring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
12.2 translation exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
12.2.1 translation exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
12.3 short summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

13 Lecture 13: Foreign direct investment 51
13.1 Motives for FDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
13.2 positives and negatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
13.3 measuring benefits of FDI: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
13.4 International diversification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
13.5 transfer pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
13.6 empirics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
13.7 summary: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

14 Country Risk analysis 57
14.1 political risk factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
14.2 Financial risk factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
14.3 types & techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
14.4 Incorporating CRA in capital budgeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
14.4.1 country risk: expropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

15 Lecture 15: Long-term Financing 60
15.1 Financing decision: Equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
15.2 Financing decision: Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
15.3 where and how . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
15.4 cost of debt financing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
15.4.1 interest rate risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
15.5 currency swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
15.5.1 fixed vs. floating rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
15.6 project finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

16 Lecture 16: Ethics 65
16.1 case study: Nike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
16.2 what are ehtics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
16.3 regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
16.4 Discontentment with globalisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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