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International Commodity Trade

This course focuses on the world's major bulk commodities such as grains and agricultural commodities petroleum gas and power markets minerals and industrial goods. Topics covered include physical characteristics of these markets such as storability perishability and seasonality as well as the supply and demand structure and pricing mechanisms in these markets.
 
International Financial Markets
The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding of foreign exchange markets and how exchange rate variation affects a range of economic activities. The course discusses the operation of the foreign exchange market international financial institutions the price level and exchange rates in the short-run and the long-run and interest rates and exchange rates. It also considers the forecasting of exchange rates models of the microstructure of foreign exchange markets the choice of exchange rate regime and financial crises.
 
Financial Risk Management
This course covers the definition sources and classification of financial risk and the measurement of risk. It also discusses volatility and correlations the definition and specification of futures and forward contracts the pricing of futures by arbitrage and the pricing of currency and index futures in practice. The course also discusses risk management in practice and corporate motivations for risk management.
 

 
 
 
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