This volume uses the original research of experienced contributors to explore recent changes in financial markets. Areas discussed include Latin America, Europe, the USA, Mexico and India.

1: Introduction; Global Capital Markets; 2: Globalization of Business and Finance and Emerging Capital Markets; 3: On The Estimation Of Global Beta; 4: Perverse Effects of Globalization in Today's Latin American Finance; 5: Liberalization and Deregulation of the Mexican Stock Market; 6: Latin American Equity Markets; 7: Global Co-Movements of Stock Markets Before and After the 1987 Crash; 8: Equity and Oil Markets Under External Shocks; Global Foreign Exchange Markets; 9: Naked and Covered Speculation in Foreign Exchange Market; 10: Consistent Estimates of Exchange-Rate Pass-Through Coefficients for the Leading European Countries; 11: On Forecasting Foreign Exchange Rates; 12: Exchange Rate Theories and the Behavior of Exchange Rates; 13: Forward and Futures Markets; 14: Immunizing Currency Risk in International Trade and Finance; 15: Purchasing Power Parity and the Peso/Dollar Exchange Rate; Global Banking Issues; 16: Contestable Markets and the Mexican Banking Sector in the Context of Nafta; 17: Rivalry and Evolution of an Industry's Structure; 18: International Interest Rate Mechanisms in Bank Lending and Borrowing Markets; 19: European Union Equity Market Reactions to the 1992-93 ERM Crisis; 20: The Evolution of US Multinational Banking; Capital Flows in the Global Structure; 21: External Capital Flows To Developing Countries; 22: Determinants Of Foreign Direct Investment Outflows Of Selected Oecd Countries; 23: An Examination of the Argument for Increased Investment in Emerging Markets; 24: Re-Exploring Financial Diversification; 25: Capital Flight From India to the United States Through Abnormal Pricing in International Trade *; 26: A Frontier Function Analysis Of Capital Flight From Selected Latin American Countries; 27: Offshore Markets And Capital Flows

Dilip K. Ghosh, Dilip K Ghosh*Cnp*, Edgar Ortiz