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Global Finance (UD)

Goals

Objectives; The basic objective of the course is to give the students the basic concepts of global finances as a framework for running effectively businesses in an internationals financial environment
Competences; After competing this course, students will be able to:
• Understand and interpret trends in a rapidly changing global financial environment
• Make basic balance of payment sustainability analyses as well as to assess exchange rate developments
• Assess specific risks in global finances, i.e. foreign exchange risk and country risk
• Understand basic characteristics of trade finance and investment instruments

Syllabus

1. Concept of global finances
2. Balance of payments
3. Exchange rates and foreign exchange markets
4. International parity conditions
5. International monetary system
6. Specific risks in international finance and management of these risks(exchange rate risk, country risk)
7. International trade finance
8. International capital flows (public and private)

Contacts

Mojmir Mrak

Office hours

Monday at 16:30

room P-345

Instead of Monday, 24 February, the consultation hour will be on Tuesday, 25 February at 13.30

Business portrait of Mojmir Mrak in the library of the School of Economics and Business in October 2024, with a round window and shelves full of books in the background

Vasja Rant

Office hours

Tuesday at 14:00

room P-301

Business portrait of Vasja Rant in the green atrium of the School of Economics and Business on a sunny day in June 2024