ECON 346 - International Finance

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

The course is devoted to the problems of balance of payments and adjustment mechanisms. Topics include: the balance of payments and the foreign ex-change market; causes of disturbances and processes of adjustment in the balance of payments and the foreign exchange market under fixed and flexible exchange rate regimes; issues in maintaining internal and external balance; optimum currency areas; the history of the international monetary system and recent attempts at reform; capital movements and the international capital market. Mr. Islamaj.

Prerequisite(s): ECON 200, ECON 248, and college-level calculus, Economics majors or permission of the instructor.

Two 75-minute periods.