Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-377) and indexes
The scope of international finance / H. Peter Gray -- The franc that wouldn't die : a historical interpretation of the resilience of the French franc / Irene Finel-Honigman -- The dilemmas of European monetary integration / Scheherazade S. Rehman -- Ramification of the Maastricht Treaty on European monetary union (EMU) : an overview / M.T. Vaziri and A. John Ruhle -- Take-off into development and emerging capital markets : stages of financial development and equity financing / Edgar Ortiz -- External capital flows and constraints on U.S. monetary policy / Alan Alford and Steven D. Felgran --Research and development expenditures, export performance, and United States' international competitiveness / Theologos Homer Bonitsis -- Black market exchange rate expectations and the demand for money. The case of SAARC countries / M. Kabir Hassan, Muhammad M. Islam and Ashraf Nakibullah -- A monetary model of the Mexican balance of payments / Melvin N. Johnson, Krishnamoorti Kasibhatla and John Malindretos -- Explaining leveraged buy-outs and acquisitions / Rama Seth -- The effect of dollar appreciation on U.S. manufacturing corporate profits : an empirical investigation / Luc C. Moens --Transnational corporations and Mexican autos : impact of sectoral and macroeconomic policies / Michael J. Twomey and William S. Milberg -- Volatility assessment for stocks or portfolios : a risk triangle approach / C. Donald Sinclair, David M. Power and A. Alasdair Lonie -- International stock returns and macroeconomic price variables / Vincent Dropsy and Fatemeh Nazarian Ibrahimi -- Debt crisis and economic recovery and performance of the emerging Latin American equity markets / Alejandra Cabello and Edgar Ortiz -- The Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange : an analysis of efficiency, risk, and international diversification / Harri Ramcharran -- Foreign bank operations in the United States : cause for concern? / Daniel E. Nolle -- An analysis of mergers between credit associations and credit cooperatives in Japan / Yasuo Hoshino -- Debt burden and financial capital flows to the less-developed countries and the former centrally planned economies / M. Raquibuz Zaman -- External debt in China / Lianlian Lin -- Less-developed country debt : a case for forgiveness / Ramesh C. Garg