International Financial Markets

by J. Orlin Grabbe

Designed to provide readers with a solid framework for exploring financial markets as markets, this best-selling book dellineates the basic rules of the game in each of the three major international... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132069881
• ISBN13: 9780132069885
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

The Definitive Textbook on International Financial Markets

A very readable (and detailed if you read those parts) introduction to the subject of international finance.The standard MBA text book, and one of a handful of finance books recently deemed significant enough to be translated into Chinese.Also, how can you resist a book with sections on topics such as 'Banking Telecommunications and the Information Superspyway' as well as dry and very detailed math on derivatives trading models.Other reviews from the great and good:"This is the best text I have seen in international finance. Good work." Stephen P. Magee, Department of Finance, University of Texas. "Grabbe had taught several 'Market Wizards' to trade currencies--and this is the book they recommend for understanding currency fundamentals." Dr. Alexander Elder, Director, Financial Trading Seminars. "This is an original and insightful presentation of material that is often ignored or badly treated in other books." Richard J. Herring, Director, Wharton Program in International Banking and Finance. "An exceptionally well-written book with detailed coverage of the financial markets in the international scene." Rahul Bishnoi, Department of Finance, University of Wisconsin. ". . . too much detail on markets." [Name Omitted], Tufts University. "Excellent book . . . teaches students about actual markets and financial instruments..." J. A. Rosensweig, Yale University. ". . . an excellent and lucid analysis of the functioning of the international money market." C. Lawrence, Columbia University. "Last year I found your book in the Beijing Library (the National Library of China) and had it xeroxed. . . Now I am cooperating with one of my friends to translate it into Chinese . . . China is trying very hard to apply the market mechanism to her economy." Zhang Bin, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China. "By far the best book available. Well-written, up-to-date & accessible . . ." Asim Erdilek, Case Western University. "This is an excellent, challenging, well-written book." E. B. Fredrikson, School of Management, Syracuse University.