Global Financial Markets - by Unknown (Hardcover)

About the Book

In the evolving environment of global financial markets, governments, corporations, individual investors, and their associated financial institutions must grapple with a host of thorny issues that affect emerging economies with particular force, as we saw during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. Among the issues analyzed by some of the top financial scholars from around the world are covered arbitrage possibilities in the absense of hedging instruments; the effect of capital controls on capital flows; the potential impact of currency unification, as well as the possibilities for pegging currency in the context of floating foreign exchange regimes; regulatory reforms; and political risk analysis.

Book Synopsis

In the evolving environment of global financial markets, governments, corporations, individual investors, and their associated financial institutions must grapple with a host of thorny issues that affect emerging economies with particular force, as we saw during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. Among the issues analyzed by some of the top financial scholars from around the world are covered arbitrage possibilities in the absense of hedging instruments; the effect of capital controls on capital flows; the potential impact of currency unification, as well as the possibilities for pegging currency in the context of floating foreign exchange regimes; regulatory reforms; and political risk analysis.

About the Author

DILIP K. GHOSH is Professor of Finance at Rutgers University and serves as Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Chair Professor of Finance at Universiti Utara, Malaysia. He is also the editor of the International Journal of Finance.

MOHAMED ARIFF is Professor of Finance at Monash University in Australia and Bumiputra-Commerce Bank Chair in Banking and Finance at Universiti Utara, Malaysia.