国际财务管理答案Chap013.doc

CHAPTER 13 INTERNATIONAL EQUITY MARKETS SUGGESTED ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS QUESTIONS 1. Get a current copy of The Wall Street Journal and find the Dow Jones Country Indexes listing in Section C of the newspaper. Examine the year-to-date percentage changes in U.S. dollars for the various national indexes. How do the changes from your table compare with the year-to-date percentage changes from the sample provided in the textbook as Exhibit 13.8? Are the same national indexes positive and negative in both listings? Discuss your findings. Answer: This question is designed to provide an intuitive understanding of the benefits from international diversification of equity portfolios. It is very unlikely that the student will find many, if any, national market indexes that have year-to-date returns that are even close to the same level as in Exhibit 13.8. Over different time periods, different market forces will affect each national market in unique ways and the exchange rates will be different. Some markets that previously yielded a positive return will now show a negative return, and vice versa. Similarly, some markets that had yielded a large positive (negative) return may now show only a small positive (negative) return. 2. As an investor, what factors would you consider before investing in the emerging stock market of a developing country? Answer: An investor in emerging market stocks needs to be concerned with the depth of the market and the market’s liquidity. Depth of the market refers to the opportunities to invest in the country. One measure of the depth of the market is the concentration ratio of a country’s stock market. The concentration ratio frequently is calculated to show the market value of the ten largest stock traded as a fraction of the total market capitalization of all equities traded. The higher the concentration ratio, the less deep is the market. That is, most value is concentrated in only a