Product Description

International Money and Finance, Third Edition, is an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates studying International Economy and Finance.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #883544 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 568 pages

Review
"An exemplary textbook" Kyklos (of the previous edition)

"The authors do an exceptional job of covering this extensive range of topics" Southern Economic Journal (of the previous edition)

"This book is unique in its thorough and up-to-date coverage of empirical results in the literature. The policy discussions are also well written and are nicely integrated with the presentation of the modelsaI strongly recommend it." Peter Pedroni, Indiana University

"Paul Hallwood and Ronald MacDonald have written an outstanding textbookaWith updated chapters on European monetary union, transition economies and developing countries - including discussion of the East Asian problems - the result is a handbook of encyclopedic range." Jan Toporowski, South Bank University

From the Back Cover
With the third edition of International Money and Finance, Hallwood and MacDonald continue to provide an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduates and graduates studying monetary economics in an international context. Reflecting monetary, neoclassical, and neoKeynesian research agendas, the book investigates all four dimensions of international money and finance - theory, evidence, policy, and institutions.

In addition to offering new and revised sections to reflect the latest theoretical and empirical research, the third edition includes new chapters on:

• real shocks and exchange regime volatility.
  
• currency crises and speculative attack.
  
• exchange rate target zones and 'dirty floating'
  
• exchange rates and transition economies.

About the Author
C. Paul Hallwood is Professor of Economics at University of Connecticut. He has authored five books and many papers within the international economics field, covering areas such as international money and finance, the multinational corporation, the international oil industry and developing economies, and the economics of commodity markets.

Ronald MacDonald is Professor of International Finance in the Department of Economics at University of Strathclyde. He is the author/editor of several books in international money and finance and has written numerous articles in the areas of international finance, macroeconomics, and financial economics.

Customer Reviews

A comprehensive study of the international financial system
This book is excellent for challenging undergraduate courses as well as graduate courses in international finance. It has a unique mixture of theory, evidence and institutions. The theory is mainly delivered to you using a few equations and helpful diagrams. The "evidence" part accompanies each theoretical offering and usually takes the form of reporting the structure and results of empirical tests. As far as I know this is the only international finance text that gives so much insight into the econometrics of international finance. It is well known that MacDonald is an international expert in the econometrics of international finance, and the bibliography indicates that he has worked quite a lot with Hallwood investigating various propositions concerning the behaviour of pegged exchange rate regimes. One of the best features of the book is the way that the theory and evidence is used in the discussion of international institutions such as the operation of fixed and floating exchange rates, currency unions and development of the international financial architecture. There is also an extensive discussion of the main features of the history of international monetary systems. Finally the authors have made an effort to bring in some discussion of international finance in east Asia. Probably the book could have benefitted from more discussion of regional issues such as these. Even so there is quite a good theoretical discussion of dollarization in Latin America.

A leading text has just been updated.
We have tried hard to keep abreast of the literature in all of the main fields of international finance - theory, evidence, institutions and policy. As we believe that scholarship requires the scholar to know the sources of ideas - every idea having its own author(s), we have not spared the student the bother of knowing about the researchers and the generation of ideas in international money and finance. We cover 'recieved wisdom' as well as the important new developments in the field. The latter include such diverse subjects as theoretical innovations in the general equilibrium theory of exchange rate determination, explanations for the relative immobility of long-term capital alongside highly mobile short-term capital, the behavior of exchange rates within target zones, theories of the best course of financial integration of transition economies and developing countries into the circuit of international capital, explanations for why real exchange rates often diverge for long periods from purchasing power parity, how misinformed speculation and speculative bubbles can cause floating exchange rates to be unstable, new successful empirical methods for forecasting exchange rates, and a reassessment of the performance of the gold standard in the 19th century and its role in the Great Depression. This textbook-monograph - written for smart undergraduate and gradute students, is widely used on three continents (the Chinese translation appeared in 1996). And we know that is it used for course work at Ivy League universities in the US, and many universities throughout Europe.