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UNINA9910139076303321 |
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Butler Kirt Charles |
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Multinational finance [[electronic resource] ] : evaluating opportunities, costs, and risks of operations / / Kirt C. Butler |
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Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2012 |
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1-119-20343-0 |
1-118-28276-0 |
1-283-59257-6 |
9786613905024 |
1-118-28516-6 |
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Edizione |
[5th ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (706 p.) |
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[Wiley finance ; ; v. 729] |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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International business enterprises - Finance |
Foreign exchange |
International finance |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Multinational Finance; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1 The International Financial Environment; Chapter 1 An Introduction to Multinational Finance; 1.1 The Goals of the Multinational Corporation; 1.2 The Challenges of Multinational Operations; 1.3 The Opportunities of Multinational Operations; 1.4 Financial Management of the Multinational Corporation; 1.5 Summary; Key Terms; Conceptual Questions; Chapter 2 World Trade and the International Monetary System; 2.1 Integration of the World's Markets; 2.2 Balance-of-Payments Statistics; 2.3 Exchange Rate Systems |
2.4 A Brief History of the International Monetary System2.5 The Global Financial Crisis of 2008; 2.6 Summary; Key Terms; Conceptual Questions; Problems; Suggested Readings; Chapter 3 Foreign Exchange and Eurocurrency Markets; 3.1 Characteristics of Financial Markets; 3.2 The Eurocurrency Market; 3.3 The Foreign Exchange Market; 3.4 Foreign Exchange Rates and Quotations; 3.5 The Empirical Behavior of Exchange Rates; 3.6 Summary; Key Terms; Conceptual Questions; Problems; Suggested Readings; Chapter 4 The International Parity |
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Conditions and Their Consequences; 4.1 The Law of One Price |
4.2 Exchange Rate Equilibrium4.3 Interest Rate Parity and Covered Interest Arbitrage; 4.4 Less Reliable International Parity Conditions; 4.5 The Real Exchange Rate; 4.6 Exchange Rate Forecasting; 4.7 Summary; Key Terms; Conceptual Questions; Problems; Suggested Readings; Appendix 4A: Continuous Compounding; Problems; Part 2 Derivative Securities for Financial Risk Management; Chapter 5 Currency Futures and Futures Markets; 5.1 Financial Futures Exchanges; 5.2 The Operation of Futures Markets; 5.3 Futures Contracts; 5.4 Forward versus Futures Market Hedges |
5.5 Futures Hedges Using Cross-Exchange Rates5.6 Hedging with Currency Futures; 5.7 Summary; Key Terms; Conceptual Questions; Problems; Suggested Readings; Chapter 6 Currency Options and Options Markets; 6.1 What Is an Option?; 6.2 Option Payoff Profiles; 6.3 Currency Option Values Prior to Expiration; 6.4 Hedging with Currency Options; 6.5 Exchange Rate Volatility Revisited (Advanced); 6.6 Summary; Key Terms; Conceptual Questions; Problems; Suggested Readings; Appendix 6A: Currency Option Valuation; Key Terms; Problems; Suggested Readings; Chapter 7 Currency Swaps and Swaps Markets |
7.1 The Growth of the Swaps Market7.2 Swaps as Portfolios of Forward Contracts; 7.3 Currency Swaps; 7.4 Interest Rate Swaps; 7.5 Other Types of Swaps; 7.6 Hedging the Swap Bank's Exposure to Financial Price Risk; 7.7 Summary; Key Terms; Conceptual Questions; Problems; Suggested Readings; Part 3 Managing the Risks of Multinational Operations; Chapter 8 Multinational Treasury Management; 8.1 Determining Financial Goals and Strategies; 8.2 Managing the Corporation's International Trade; 8.3 Financing the Corporation's International Trade; 8.4 Managing the Multinational Corporation's Cash Flows |
8.5 Currency Risk Management in the Multinational Corporation |
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An in-depth treatment of the international financial arena Multinational Finance, Fifth Edition assumes the viewpoint of the financial manager of a multinational corporation with investment or financial operations in more than one country. This book provides a framework for evaluating the many opportunities, costs, and risks of multinational operations in a manner that allows readers to see beyond the math and terminology surrounding this field to realize the general principles of multinational financial management. Logically organized and written in a clear, non-technical st |
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UNINA9910828597803321 |
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Autore |
Hochedlinger Michael |
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Austria's wars of emergence : war, state and society in the Habsburg monarchy, 1683-1797 / / Michael Hochedlinger |
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Oxfordshire, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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©2003 |
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ISBN |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (416 p.) |
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Collana |
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Modern Wars In Perspective |
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Disciplina |
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Austria History 1519-1740 |
Austria History 1740-1789 |
Austria History 1789-1815 |
Austria History, Military |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction: The belated great power; Modest Origins - the Habsburg Monarchy During the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century; 1. The domestic foundations; The question of terminology; The territorial and administrative configuration of the Habsburg Monarchy; Limited absolutism: the provincial Estates; Economy; Finances; 2. The primacy of power politics; The instruments of foreign policy |
From domestic to foreign policy: the Habsburgs and the Reich after 1648Geopolitical challenges and responses; 3. Home defence; Feudal levy and peasant militia in the Austro-Bohemian lands; Hungary; The Military Border (Militärgrenze); The contribution of the Reich; 4. The standing army; Origins and growth; The High Command; The officer corps; Military administration; Artillery; Technical branches; The guards; Weaponry; Military industries; Uniforms; Quarters and provisions; Soldiers' families and the baggage train; Military justice; Religion; Medical service and disabled soldiers |
Tactics, strategy and the primacy of logisticsAustria's 'Age of Heroes' |
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1683-1733; 5. The Turkish War 1683-1699; The Kuruc rebellion; The siege of Vienna; The Habsburg counter-offensive; 6. The Nine Years War 1689-1697; The 'reunions'; The French invasion of Germany; From stalemate to peace; 7. The War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714; The Spanish inheritance; The Italian peninsula; Germany; The Spanish Netherlands; Spain; The peace treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt and Baden 1713-1714; The Rákóczy rebellion 1703-1711; 8. Renewed expansion; The Turkish War of 1716-1718; Trade expansion |
The Italian question 1717-1732The Crisis of a Great Power 1733-1748; 9. Diplomatic reverses and military defeats; The Pragmatic Sanction; The War of the Polish Succession 1733-1738; The Turkish War 1737-1739; 10. Squaring the circle or how to administer and defend a territorial giant; The new provinces; State finances; The crisis of the army; Austria goes to sea; Extension, crisis and early reforms of the Military Border; 11. The War of the Austrian Succession 1740-1748; Finis Austriae?; Austria's recovery; War in Italy; The second Silesian War 1744-1745; War in the Austrian Netherlands |
The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle 1748Reform - Revenge - Aggression?; 12. The modernization of the Habsburg Monarchy in the age of Enlightened Absolutism 1740-1790; The reform of state and society; Population; State finances; Economy; 13. Army and society; Recruitment reforms and the 'militarization' of the Habsburg Monarchy; Army strength and structure; Professionalization and modernization; The outsiders: Hungary, Lombardy, Belgium and the Tyrol; The Military Border; 14. The Seven Years War 1756-1763; The diplomatic revolution and the coming of the Seven Years War; Military operations 1756-1762 |
The 'miracle of the House of Brandenburg' |
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