Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exchange rates, markets, and firms -- Module 1.1. exchange rates and global markets -- Foreign exchange markets and transactions -- Exchange rate policy at the monetary authority of Singapore -- Innocents abroad: currencies and international stock returns -- Module 1.2. exchange rates and firms -- Hedging currency risks at AIFS -- Foreign exchange hedging strategies at General Motors: Transactional and translational exposures -- Foreign exchange hedging strategies at General Motors: Competitive exposures -- Multinational finance -- Module 2.1. financing decisions within the firm -- The refinancing of Shanghai General Motors -- Corporate inversions: Stanley Works and the lure of tax havens -- The continuing transformation of Asahi Glass: implementing EVA -- Module 2.2. valuing cross-border investments -- Valuing a cross-border LBO: bidding on the Yell Group -- Globalizing the cost of capital and capital budgeting at AES -- Dow Chemical's bid for the privatization of PBB in Argentina -- Cross-border financing -- Drilling South: Petrobras evaluates Pecom -- Nestle and Alcon-the value of a listing -- Cross-border listings and depositary receipts -- Tax-motivated film financing at Rexford Studios -- The strategy and sources of motion picture finance -- Institutions and finance -- Module 4.1. finance in weak institutional environments -- Growing up in China: the financing of BabyCare Ltd. -- 18.-13. Czech Mate (A-E) -- Module 4.2. regulatory regimes -- Antitrust regulations in a global setting: the EU investigation of the -- GE/Honeywell merger -- Redesigning sovereign debt restructuring mechanisms.