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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