Foreign-market Books

DeRosa has picked excellent papers. If one reads the papers in detail, the currency derivatives literature, as well as related derivatives literature, becomes very easy to understand.

This book presents highly technical papers on diverse topics from variuous academics. It would be very helpful to anyone looking to understand theoretical aspects of FX derivatives. Since most papers are written by different authors, notation is not consistent. In addition, academics do not always write like Hemingway. Nevertheless, the book covers everyhting from vanillas to exotics very well.

Being an outsider of European Intergration as asian, I can catch layout picture from this book about the EURO system. Even it will bring new future in major regions on focus economy and business. This book is not under academical theories only but also on practical issues. And the writing is not hard to read for non-inglish speaker.

It's a book about EURO which you'll find interesting. It is actually a collection of articles written by various industry specialists. It examines the impact of EURO on many areas like Bond Market, Equity Market & foreign exchange rate etc, it also illustrates the role of ECB.

It's recommended to students who want to have a quick grasp of knowledge in the EMU. It contains many graphs and diagrams which can raise your speed of reading. However, the impact of Euro on Equity market is a little bit too short.

Highly recommended to overseas students in Europe.

I did, and I found that this book gave me a clear and comprehensive knowledge base for this new (at least new to me) investment vehicle.

While I have been following the growth of ETFs for a some time in the financial media, I've been confused about how to select them and why they're sound investment alternatives. This book provided sound discussions about the various funds and why this is a good investment strategy. The charts were helpful and overall this is a very well written investment book

Contents Include:

* Currency Derivatives: A Guide for Practitioners (G. Hopper)
* Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Currency Futures..(H. Taylor)
* Central Banks and the Currency Markets (A. Hodge)
* Speculative Trading and Hedge Funds (M. Rafferty)
* Fundamental Analysis (Earl Johnson)
* Technical Analysis (T. Basso)
* Option Strategies (Neil Record)

* Maximizing Diversification in International Investing: New Opportunities (V. Parker)
* Immunization Strategy for Multinational Fixed-Income Investments (Hauser, Levy, Yaari)
* Currency-Hedging Foreign Investments: Why Bonds and Equities are Different (Lee Thomas III)
* Measuring the Performance of Currency Managers (B. Strange)

* The relationship of Management To Effective Risk Control (Alex Koh)
* Risk Measurement (Linsmeier & N. Pearson)
* The Uses of Analytics (E. Zask)
* Passive versus Active Management (L. McNew)
* Foreign-Exchange Risk Management at Tenneco (James West, Jr.)
* Regulatory Issues: Accounting and Financial Reporting for Instruments Subject to Global Currency Risk (Herz, Linsmeier, Bhave)

This book contains some useful stuff for those hoping to understand exchange rate risk management. Unfortunately, being a collection of articles by different authors, it also contains a lot of stuff that is less useful and lacks coherence. A good book for those involved in risk management to delve into on occasion. Beginners need to be careful as it seems to contain some questionable arguments.

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.

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Eric Uhlfelder's book could be titled "Europe 101: An Introduction for Americans." European readers will not gain much by reading this work, which is filled with the very basic basics of Europe's politics, economies and companies. But for Americans looking to diversify their newly constructed stock portfolios, it is a valuable resource, profiling the EU and the economic strengths and weaknesses of EU and non-EU countries. The book also profiles key companies, such as Nokia, SAP, Adecco and others, and discusses which individual stocks and mutual funds you should acquire. We [...] recommend this interesting primer to Yankee readers, who might be surprised to learn how fast Ireland is growing, how much Austria's fling with the far right cost the country and how a French utility firm is positioned to take over the world.

For a world political & economic power, Americans can be remarkably parochial. Uhlfelder's book is a valuable introduction to the huge European market, and some well-chosen major players. It comes as a surprise to many Americans just how world class many of the companies operating from there are. To continue to be successful, it is incumbent on Americans not to be complacent about foreign competition - look how Nokia sneaked up and overtook Motorola.

THIS BOOK HELPED HELPED ME TO UNDERSTAND HE LANGUAGE AND ITS CULTURE

Well, this dictionary it's useful, but just for the people that already know japanese, in other way, it's just another dicctionary of the bunch. It's isn't a dictionary that engages you to take a text, and begin to translate with it, That's impossible with this dictionary. But by other way this book it's very cheap, and as a dictionary, it can improve your vocabulary... Just that.

What I liked:
There are complete sentences showing usage of selected verbs, nouns. Also, important basic vocabulary is capitalized. Also, the font is slightly bigger than in University of Chicago dictionary, but still too small for me to read comfortably.

Dislikes: First, verbs have no conjugation information. Second, most Spanish words are inadequately defined. (One word English equivalents are used for most Spanish words.)
This is okay as a backup only not as a primary reference. english to spanish section is very skimpy + smaller than Span/Eng.

Good coverage, excellent format and most important of all, value for the price. But I would like to pay more for it if it comes with larger prints.

I don't know how well this book would hold up in more advanced French courses, but it got me through my first year of French. There are a few words that I wasn't able to find in this dictionary, but I did perfectly fine with the words that it does have. The list of irregular verbs is nice, too.

The Random House Basic Dictionary of French was a great book. I highly recomend this book. There were only a few words not in it.

I use this as the main text in a small group Spanish Conversation Class. There are six high school aged students who have had between two and three years of instruction, and one adult who actually lived in South America, but wants an update on her language skills.

The pros are: Interesting conversation and easy to follow dialogues and grammar/phrase points in each chapter. Nice small size, and not overwhelming.

The cons: No vocabulary list for each chapter, so the students are a little all over the map for keeping track of the vocabulary their adding to their repertoire, and this makes "quizzes" a little more difficult.

Overall, the students enjoy the lay out.
It is of course an advanced book, so for an introduction or for younger students, Flip Flop Spanish is good, which comes with a CD. (I do wish it came WITH CD's, not separately, but that's a VERY small flaw.)

I really like this course. I have studied quite a bit of Spanish, but I am weak in listening skills, and that is where this course helped me. It is not for beginners, but neither is it "too advanced". A good supplement to a comprehensive course of study in Spanish. It is set in Spain, and my interest is mostly Mexico and Central America, but no big problem.