Global
Financial Markets
Instructor's Materials
A guide to the workings of the world's currency, money and capital,
commodities and derivatives markets.
by Ian H. Giddy, Stern School of Business, New York University
Instructor's Guide • Electronic
Update • Computerized Test Questions • The
FOG • Yin and Yang • Power
Play • Powerpoint Slides • The
author • The Stern School
1. Instructor's Guide
The Instructor's Guide contains a guide to teaching the contents of each
chapter, solutions to all questions, problems and applications, and transparency
masters.
For information about academic purchases or adoption contact Houghton
Mifflin Faculty Services (1-800-733-1717), or fax them at 800-733-1810.
Note: The Instructor's Guide contains some errors. Sorry! I am compiling
the corrections into a single document. To get it when it's ready, send
me an email. Available only to adopting instructors, so please state
who you are and the name and email address of your publisher's rep.
2. Electronic Update
This is now available
on the Internet.
3. Computerized Test Questions
All the questions and problems in the book, plus a few others, with answers,
are on a disk in Wordperfect 6.0 format (readable by recent versions of
Microsoft Word). Instructors can use them to select and adapt items for
tests. They are available free to adopting instructors from the publisher.
(If you have trouble getting it, send an email.)
Separately, I have developed a full set of on-line quizzes, both self-test
and "real" quizzes, for my international finance course. These are designed
to be used with WebCT, a Web-based course tool which allows students to
go onto the Web any time and take the quiz and, at the instructor's discretion,
obtain feedback in the form of suggested solutions (see sample
in Adobe Acrobat format). The questions
can be automatically graded or hand-graded by the instructor. These may
be purchased for instructor use for $375 for the set. To see it in action,
send a request to materialsrequest@giddy.org
and you'll be assigned a special, temporary, password.
(A similar set is available for a Foundations
of Finance course.)
4. The FOG trading game
This is a foreign exchange options trading simulation in Lotus 1-2-3 for
DOS format. It appears to work in Excel, but is not fully tested. The single-user
price of the program, with instruction sheets, is US$20. A one-semester
site licence, enabling an instructor to make copies for students, costs
US$50.
A souped-up version of FOG, called Eurofog, designed to simulate
Eurocurrency option trading, is also available at the same price. It runs
in Lotus 1-2-3 Version 4 for Windows.
A professional version of Eurofog, Eurofog Pro, used by
banks in their training programs, is available for $40 or $250 for an academic
site licence. This is written in Visual Basic and runs in Windows. It does
not require any spreadsheet program. [Currently unavailable, pending revisions.]
5. Yin and Yang, a swap negotiation game
This swap negotiation simulation is designed to emphasize the mechanics
and principles of interest rate swaps and, to a lesser extent, currency
swaps. The core is a fixed-floating swap matching the needs of Basket Bancorp
of Miami with those of Sushi Bank of Tokyo, with either Metrobank or Global
Bancorp of New York intermediating.
Each team is given a Participants' Guide and team-specific information
sheet on the basis of which a swap is to be negotiated. After group discussion,
the teams convene for interactive negotiation on the risks and terms of
the swap. Finally they reconvene for a plenary session.
The materials, with instructor's guide, are available for $25
to adopting instructors from the author.
5. Power Play, an international project financing negotiation/case study
This cross-border investment case study, also suitable as a negotiation
simulation, uses real information about a proposed investment in a power
project in Hangzhou, China. The case materials include background information
on China and similar project, excerpts from sample contracts, a roadshow
Q&A from a comparable project, and a detailed Excel spreadsheet which
the instructor would normally make available to students. The spreadsheet
can be used, among other things, to show the effect of taxes on the optimal
financing mix. A summary of the case, as I use it with my students, may
be downloaded here.
The materials, with the Excel spreadsheet and a PowerPoint presentation
(see sample), are
available for $50 from the author.
6. A complete set of PowerPoint slides
Developed for my International Financial Management course, these lecture
supplements have become an essential adjunct to my course and have proved
useful to a number of other lecturers, even those not using Global Financial
Markets. The package consists of 20 slideshows, with an average of
about 40 slides per lecture (see sample),.
In addition to the subjects covered in the book, they include financial
management topics such as international capital budgeting, foreign exchange
exposure, applications of value-at-risk to international treasury management,
international taxation and international accounting.
The set is available for $500 from the author.
(A similar set is available for a Foundations
of Finance course.)
6. On-line Courses
On-line versions of this and
other courses are sometimes available to be taken in tandem with the classroom
lectures.
Most materials will be made available for download from a special
Website upon receipt of payment in US funds.
Requests for materials should be made to materialsrequest@giddy.org.
Payment should be in the form of a check made out to "Ian H. Giddy" and
sent to:
Ian H. Giddy
giddyonline.com
119 West 82nd Street
New York, NY 10024
USA
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