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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454832603321

Titolo

Global financial markets [[electronic resource] ] : issues and strategies / / edited by Dilip K. Ghosh and Mohamed Ariff ; foreword by Salleh Majd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2004

ISBN

1-282-40910-7

9786612409103

0-313-05926-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GhoshDilip K <1942-> (Dilip Kumar)

Mohamed Ariff <1940->

Disciplina

332/.042

Soggetti

Capital market - Asia

Financial crises - Asia

Finance - Asia

International finance

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgments; 1 Agiotage and Arbitrage: Could They Work for an Investor in Asian Financial Crisis?; 2 Financial Liberalization, Emerging Stock Market Efficiency, and Currency Crisis; 3 Political Risk in Taiwan: Valuing the Doubly Stochastic China Factor; 4 Foreign Exchange Rate Exposure during a Financial Crisis: The Case of Malaysian Multinationals; 5 Impact of Globalization on Capital Markets: The Egyptian Case; 6 Optimization, Temporary Inefficiencies, and Profitability of Technical Trading Rules in Currency Markets

7 Analyzing the Asian Crisis: Was It Really a Surprise?8 Banking and Regulatory Reform in Postcrisis Asia; 9 Bank Operating Strategies and Impact of Crisis: The Malaysian Case; 10 Persistent Dependence in Foreign Exchange Rates? A Reexamination; 11 Transfer Pricing and Investment Incentives: Asian and North American Linkages; 12 Money, Exchange Rates, and Inflation: Evidence from Malaysia; 13 Impact of Pegging on Malaysian Ringgit after the Onset of the Asian Financial Crisis in July 1997; 14 Optimum Currency Area: Euro as a Practical



Paradigm?; 15 Asian Financial Crisis: Whence and Whither?

IndexAbout the Editors and Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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 absence of hedging instruments; the effect of capital controls on capital flows; the potential impact of currency unification, as well as the possibilities for pe