Contenuti:
Part One: The Global Financial System in Perspective
1: Functions and Roles of the Financial System in the Global Economy
2: Financial Assets, Money, Financial Transactions, and Financial Institutions
3: The Financial Information Marketplace
4: The Future of the Financial System and the Money and Capital Markets
Part Two: Interest Rates and the Prices of Financial Assets
5: The Determinants of Interest Rates: Competing Ideas
6: Measuring and Calculating Interest Rates and Financial Asset Prices
7: Inflation and Deflation, Yield Curves, and Duration: Impact on Interest Rates and Asset Prices
8: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates: Defaults, Prepayments, Taxes, and Other Rate-Determining factors
9: Interest-Rate Forecasting and Hedging: Swaps, Financial Futures, and Options
Part Three: The Money Market and Central Banking
10: Introduction to the Money Market and the Roles Played by Governments and Security Dealers
11: Commercial Banks, Major Corporations, and Federal Credit Agencies in the Money Market
12: Roles and Services of the Federal Reserve and Other Central Banks Around the World
13: The Tools and Goals of Central Bank Monetary Policy Part Four: Financial Institutions: Organization, Activities, and Regulation
14: The Commercial Banking Industry: Structure, Products, and Management
15: Nonbank Thrift Institutions: Savings and Loans, Savings Banks, Credit Unions, and Money Market Funds
16: Mutual Funds, Insurance Companies, Investment Banks, and Other Financial Firms
17: Regulation of the Financial Institutions’ Sector Part Five – Governments and Businesses in the Financial Marketplace
18: Federal, State, and Local Governments Operating in the Financial Markets
19: Business Borrowing: Corporate Bonds, Asset-Backed Securities, Bank Loans, and Other Forms of Business Debt
20: The Market for Corporate Stock
Part Six: Households in the Financial Marketplace
21: Consumer Lending and Borrowing
22: The Residential Mortgage Market
Part Seven: The International Financial System
23: International Transactions and Currency Values
24: International Banking
Money and Capital Markets Dictionary
Index
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