currency-rate-exchange Books

In Controlling Currency Mismatches In Emerging Markets, Morris Goldstein (Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at IIE) and Philip Turner (Head of the Secretariat Group in the Monetary and Economics Department, Bank for International Settlements) collaborate in revealing and dealing with past and present weaknesses in economic policies and institutions in contemporary and emerging markets around the globe. But more than a simply litany of flawed policies and economic ills, the authors present an effective and practical plan of action to control currency mismatches through a managed floating currency regime, an inflation targeting regime for monetary policy, regular publication of data on currency mismatches at the sectoral and economy wide levels, stepped up supervision and monitoring of currency mismatches in banks and in the loan customers, changes in official safety nets and in IMF policy conditionality, implementation of more prudent debt and reserve management policies in emerging economies, and a higher priority with respect to developing domestic bond markets, hedging instruments, and reduced barriers respecting foreign-owned banks within emerging economies. Informed and informative, Controlling Currency Mismatches In Emerging Markets is a sold work of seminal research and strongly recommended reading for policy makers with respect to international economic issues.

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I work in the securities industry, and this book accurately described the markets and products without the detailed mathematics. I would recommend this book as a first reading before the Hull and White book which is much more mathematical.

Too bad it's out of print. I'd like everyone in my group to have a copy.

I consider the book a perfect guide written by a professional for professionals. If you are looking for scientific completeness and complication, go somewhere else. If you are looking for a competent down-to-earth reference, this is your book. I wonder when the third edition of this valuable tool will be published.

This is a great book! Rosenberg has succeeded in making a dry and complicated topic, foreign exchange, both interesting and understandable. The chapter on intervention is especially timely and enlightening. Rosenberg is rated tops in his field by professional fx traders and portfolio managers, yet he has succeeded in writing a book that is both useful and interesting to both professionals and nonprofessionals. This is a must read for anyone involved in international markets.

I got this book and a copy of another book by Michael Rosenberg "Exchange Rate Determination". The contents of these two books is exactly the same. Same topics covered in both books. I made the mistake of purchsing both when I should have only bought Exchange Rate Determination which is priced more decently than the out-of-print version. These used book resellers are selling the Currency forecasting book at a non-sense exorbitant price.

If you haven't read anything about FX market, this may be a good start. But if you already read any introductory handbook, this one will be redundant.

Also I agree that there was too much of reference. There is ca. 190 pages of real content and ca 90 pages of additional stuff that generally could be found in the Internet.

this book was very general, gave alot of basic ideas but with little support, 10 pages on technical analysis but with no charts. OVerall this book was alot of reference, not enough useful information. [..]. Disappointed with purchase.

I'm sorry to say but this book is not giving me anything to learn only a bunch of information that you can get thru googling the terms like what is GDP, PPI, CPI etc, this book is not telling you anything the most important thing about trading like how to trade ( Technical ), risk management, or even trading psikology.

[..]. Half way through the book, I hand't learned how to apply anything. This book doesn't engage the reader, as a book that teaches you anything should. [...]

The book has good a content for a beginner. For a more advanced forex person this book is too basic, that is why I give 3 stars.

The Auther explain the underlining historical events ( e.g. the ups and down of dollar Yen exchange rate) that lead to the boom and bust of the Asian economics. He also account for the 1994 Mexico financial crisis in similar manner. Useful for understanding events shaping the world's economics.

This book is well written which makes it a usefull tool to improve my English.The content is OK, but nothing worth it to rave about.(Perhaps,the author need to visit Continent of Asia little more often.)

This is a good book -- it tells what we already know. Too bad that the author could not predict any of these events -- but then of course hindsight is always 20/20! I do not think this book helps one to do business in Asia. One major drawback - the author seems to have no understanding of Asian business and seems not to have sullied his conclusions by speaking with any Asians. Read this book for a glimpse of perfect hindsight -- but read also "New Asian Emperors: the Overseas Chinese their Strategies and Competitive Advantages" by George T. Haley for a more fair appraisal of the Asian situation and a terrific understanding of Asian business.

There are better books out there to spend your money on. The copy I have was printed in 1993 and a lot of things have changed since this first edition.

It is useless for individual traders.

You would be better off to buy John Murphy's books; Mark Douglas' books and John L. Person's book.

Just my humble opinion.

Good book for a feel on cross-rates. Unfortunately written before the advent of the EURO, therefore partially osolete nowadays.

This is an awful book. Each currency pair gets a chapter in the book. Some general background and some charts are provided for each pair. That's the whole story. I cannot understand how such a poor manuscript can be published under the name of a reputable publisher. This book isn't even worth $5. Zero stars!

Addition: I didn't try to copy the earlier reviewer when I wrote this!

Just a bunch a historical forex charts on the major currencies. The authors add a ridiculous data called "activity" that simply shows that the forex market is very active during the european and the american sessions (wow, what a revelation, like we did not notice already!) and voila! you have a totally worthless "book" selling for almost 90 bucks. Save your money and run fast, even if this "book" was simply given away for free, it would still be expensive!!! It's a pity, amazon does not have a MINUS 5 star rating.