James C. Baker is the author International Finance, 1/e James C. Baker is Professor of Finance and International Business at Kent State University where he has taught since 1971. He has M.B.A. and D.B.A. degrees in International Business from Indiana University and has held full-time appointments at the University of Maryland and San Francisco State University as well as part-time appointments at George Washington University, University of Hawaii, Catholic University in Puerto Rico, Madrid Business School in Spain, and Hiram College. He was international financial advisor at Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 1975-77. His teaching and research specialties are international financial management, international financial institutions and markets, international banking, and international business.

His books include International Business Expansion into Less-Developed Countries-a definitive study of the International Finance Corporation, Foreign Influence in Korean Banking (with Y.D. Euh), International Business Classics (with Donald Howard and J.K. Ryans), International Band Regulations, and The German Stock Markets-the only English-language study of these markets. His articles have appeared in such journals as Accounting and Business Research, The Banker, California Management Review, Columbia Journal of World Business, International Journal of Finance, International Trade Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of World Trade Law, and Managerial Finance.

Dr. Baker currently serves on the editorial review boards of Advances in Competitiveness Research, Global Finance and Business Review, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, Journal of Emerging Markets, Journal of Global Business, and Multinational Business Review. He serves as Membership Committee Chair for the Academy of International Business and on the Globalization Committee of the Financial Management Association International. His next project is a study of agencies that facilitate and encourage foreign direct investment in developing countries, e.g., Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

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