This series focuses on topics such as international financial markets, pricing options on foreign assets and the ECU as the financing currency. This volume includes a section on European acquisitions by French banks, strategies and the European financial structure. Other areas covered include: regulatory taxes; investment and financing decisions for insured banks; free trade and the European financial structure; and a critical reexamination of the return geneship process of the arbitrage pricing theory.

This first volume in a series assessing international banking and finance focuses on the 'revolution' in international financial markets. Individual chapters deal with the impact of the Persian Gulf Crisis on national equity markets and foreign transmissions effects in Sweden.

This is a reprint of a 1980 book that deals with foreign companies acquiring American businesses in the 1970s and how they evaluated and negotiated those acquisitions.