International Finance

Préface
A concise and comprehensive examination of international finance, written with up-to-date examples and an engaging yet rigorous approach.

Auteur
Menzie Chinn is Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of WisconsinMadison. He is a co-editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance, a Research Associate in the International Finance and Macroeconomics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve Board, the European Central Bank, and the Banque de France. He served as Senior Staff Economist for International Finance on the President's Council of Economic Advisers (200001). He is coauthor with Jeffry Frieden of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2011, W. W. Norton), and contributor to Econbrowser, a weblog devoted to current macroeconomic issues. Douglas Irwin is John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He served as president of the Economic History Association (202324). He has served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in the 1980s and later worked in the International Finance Division at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers of 2019 and the Financial Times has called him 'one of the world's foremost trade scholars'. He is the author of Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2017), which The Economist and Foreign Affairs selected as one of their Best Books of the Year.

Texte du rabat
A comprehensive, clear, and up-to-date introduction to the basic theory used by economists to understand global finance for advanced undergraduates. Important concepts are illustrated with real-world examples and over 140 end-of-chapter questions consolidate learning.

Contenu
Preface; 1. Introducing the global economy; 2. Measuring the economy and its interaction with the world; 3. Exchange rates, interest rates, and the foreign exchange market; 4. Spending and income in the short run; 5. Income and interest rates under fixed exchange rates; 6. Floating exchange rates and the international trilemma; 7. Income, money and the price level in an open economy; 8. The determinants of the exchange rate; 9. Emerging market crises; 10. The global financial crisis; 11. The Eurozone crisis; References; Index.