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What is a multinational corporation? Why do firms expand into other countries? What are the six major

  1. What is a multinational corporation? Why do firms expand into other countries?
  2. What are the six major factors which distinguish multinational financial management from financial management as practiced by a purely domestic firm?
  3. Consider the following illustrative exchange rates.
    U. S. Dollars required to buy
    one unit of foreign currency
    Euro 0.8000
    Swedish krona 0.1000
    1. Are these currency prices direct quotations or indirect quotations?
    c. 2. Calculate the indirect quotations for Euros and Kronas .
    c. 3. What is a cross rate? Calculate the two cross rates between euros and kronas .
    c. 4. Assume citrus products can produce a liter of orange juice and ship it to Spain for $1.75. If the firm wants a 50 percent markup on the product, what should the orange juice sell for in Spain ?
    c. 5. Now assume Citrus Products begins producing the same liter of orange juice in Spain . The product costs 2.0 euros to produce and ship to Sweden , where it can be sold for 20 kronas . What is the dollar profit on the sale?
    c. 6. What is exchange rate risk?
  4. Briefly describe the current International Monetary System. How does the current system differ from the system that was in place prior to August 1971?
  5. What is a convertible currency? What problems arise when a multinational company operates in a country whose currency is not convertible?
  6. What is the difference between spot rates and forward rates? When is the forward rate at a premium to the spot rate? At a discount?
  7. What is interest rate parity? Currently, you can exchange 1 euro for 0.8100 dollars in the 180-day forward market, and the risk-free rate on 180-day securities is 6 percent in the United States and 4 percent in Spain . Does interest rate parity hold? If not, which securities offer the highest expected return?
  8. What is purchasing power parity? If grapefruit juice costs $2.00 a liter in the United States and purchasing power parity holds, what should be the price of grapefruit juice in Spain ?
  9. What impact does relative inflation have on interest rates and exchange rates?
  10. Briefly discuss the international capital markets.
  11. To what extent do average capital structures vary across different countries?
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