This chapter introduces the student to international financial management. The authors discuss how financing and investment decisions change when a firm operates in more than one country. They also explain the relationships between spot and forward exchange rates, interest rates, and inflation rates. Interest rate parity theory, purchasing power parity theory and the expectations theory of forward rates are discussed. The authors discuss currency risk management, capital budgeting for international projects, foreign currency cost of capital, and political risk.
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