ESF:MPF_MEFI International Finance - Course Information
MPF_MEFI International Finance
Faculty of Economics and AdministrationAutumn 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Ing. Miroslav Sponer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Ing. Miroslav Sponer, Ph.D.
Department of Finance – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Iva Havlíčková - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! PFMEZF International Finance
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Finance (programme ESF, M-FU)
- Finance (programme ESF, N-FU)
- Financial Management (programme ESF, M-HPS)
- Course objectives
- At the end of this course, students should be able to analyse and interpret informations on balancing international monetary relations;
understand problems of exchange rates, currency risk, and transactions on an exchange market. - Syllabus
- 1. Principles of international finance;
- 2. Balance of payments;
- 3. Economic analyses of balance of payments;
- 4. Exchange rates and their determinants;
- 5. Theories of exchange rates comparison;
- 6. Exchange rates systems;
- 7. History of Czech crown exchange rate;
- 8. Exchange market structure;
- 9. Transactions on the exchange market;
- 10.Currency risk management;
- 11.International investments;
- 12.Foreign exchange reserves;
- 13.Central bank foreign exchange interventions.
- Literature
- required literature
- DURČÁKOVÁ, Jaroslava and Martin MANDEL. Mezinárodní finance. 3. rozš. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Management Press, 2007, 487 s. ISBN 9788072611706. info
- recommended literature
- JANKOVSKÁ, Anežka and Miroslav SPONER. Mezinárodní finance. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1999, 211 s. ISBN 8021020873. info
- MANDEL, Martin and Vladimír TOMŠÍK. Monetární ekonomie v malé otevřené ekonomice. 2., rozš. vyd. Praha: Management Press, 2008, 367 s. ISBN 9788072611850. info
- PILBEAM, Keith. International finance. 2nd ed. Houndmills: Palgrave, 1998, xxvii, 488. ISBN 0-333-73097-6. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, reading, class discussion.
- Assessment methods
- Written test (necessary condition to concede the exam is to reach 60% of the result at minimum).
Oral exam (2 theoretical questions). - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.
General note: Nezapisují si studenti, kteří absolvovali předmět PFMEZF. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- MPF_AIFI International Finance
(!MPF_MEZF) && !NOWANY(MPF_MEZF) || (!MPF_MEFI) - MPF_MEZF International Finance
!MPF_MEFI || (!MPF_MEZF) && !NOWANY(MPF_MEZF)
- MPF_AIFI International Finance
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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