International Finance

Course Description

This course includes eight semesters, starting with a review of international finance with a comprehensive view, then addressing the balance of payments, followed by a presentation of international financial institutions, foreign investment, as well as international exchange rates and markets, as well as a study of international cash flows, in addition to the topic of multinational companies, then finished studying the global trading system.

Course Aims

By the end of the course the student will be able to acquire the following skills and knowledge:

• Understand the concept, importance, and scope of international finance.
• Realizing the importance of the balance of payments and its applications.
• Familiarity with international financial institutions and their pivotal role in the international financial and monetary system.
• Analysis of foreign investment, its forms, and contributions to international finance
•  Understand international exchange rates and markets and their applications and distinguish between their theories.
• Familiarity with the international financial system and analysis of the mechanisms for the transfer of its funds.
• Learn about multinational companies and their role in the international capitalist system.
• Understand the international trading system and methods of settling disputes arising from it.

Course Contents:

1.International Finance...an overview

• The concept, importance, and scope of international finance
• International liquidity
• international exchange reserve

2.Balance of Payments:

• The concept of balance of payments and its importance
• The general structure of the balance of payments and its types of imbalances
• The method of entry in the balance of payments and its applications

3. International Finance Institutions

• The International Monetary Fund
• The World Bank

4. Foreign Investment:

• Foreign investment concept and classifications
• Forms and determinants of foreign investment
• foreign investment theories

5.International Exchange Rates and Markets:

• An introduction to the exchange rates
• Exchange rate regimes and theories explaining it
• Theoretical and practical framework of the exchange market

6.International Capital Flows:

• Conceptual framework for international cash flows to capital
• The causes and effects of international capital flows
• Implications for international capital flows

7. Multinational companies:

• Basic concepts about multinational corporations
• Capital Structure of Multinational Corporations
• Managing multinational companies and the difficulties they face

8. The global trading system:

• International trade exchange
• The World Trade Organization
• World Trade Organization agreements

Course ID: FIN363