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Chapter 1 Multinational Financial Management: Opportunities and Challenges
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1.1 The Global Financial Marketplace
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1) Financial globalization has NOT resulted in:
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A) continuing imbalances of balance of payments.
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B) an increase in quantity and speed in the flow of capital across the world.
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C) capital markets less open and a decrease in the availability of capital for many organizations.
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D) uniform ways of ownership, control, and governance across the worl
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d.Answer: D
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2) Financial globalization has NOT resulted in:
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A) continuing imbalances of balance of payments.
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B) an increase in quantity and speed in the flow of capital across the world.
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C) capital markets more open and an increase in the availability of capital for ma
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nyorganizations.
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D) an increase in the flow of capital into and out of industrialized mark
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ets.Answer: C
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3) The institutions of global finance are:
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D) All of the above are institutions of global financ
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e.Answer: D
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,4) A major cost avoided in the eurocurrency markets is the payment of deposit insurance f
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B) Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — OCC.
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C) International Monetary Fund — IMF. +z +z +z +z
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WB.Answer: A
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5) The modern eurocurrency market was born shortly after:
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6) The reference rate of interest in the eurocurrency market is the:
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B) Eurocurrency deposits and loans are made in amounts of $500,000 or more on an unsecu
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C) The eurocurrency is a wholesale market.
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D) Borrowers are usually large corporations or government entitie
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, 8) Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are firms, both for-profit companies and not-for-
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profit organizations, that have operations in more than one country, and conduct their busines
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s throughforeign subsidiaries, branches, or joint ventures with host country firms.
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9) Ownership, control, and governance changes radically across the world. The publicly trad
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edcompany is not the dominant global business organization—the privately held or family-
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ownedbusiness is the prevalent structure—
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and their goals and measures of performance differ dramatically.
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10) The securities at the heart of the global capital markets are the Mortgage Backed Securit
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ies(MBS). The health and security of the global financial system rely on the quality of thes
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11) The U.S. dollar has been the focal point of currency trading since the 1940s. As a res
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ult,most of the world's currencies are quoted against the dollar.
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12) Several of the world's major currency exchange rates follow a specific quotation conventi
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onthat is the result of tradition and history. The exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and th
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e eurois always quoted as "dollars per euro."
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