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This course is intended to provide Executive MBA students with an understanding of the international economic relations among countries and issues related to financial decision making in the global environment. Topics covered will include 1) macroeconomic relations between counties and the international monetary system; 2) the foreign exchange and international money markets, and the conditions that define their interrelation; 3) the definition of and ways to manage exchange rate risk; 4) financing in global markets. The discussion in the course will combine both theoretical frameworks of how to think about the problems and issues and discussions of real world experience with cases drawn from the student background professional experience as well as the news. A special attention will be paid to the connections between United States, China, the Euro Area and the rest of the world.