Financial Markets and Institutions,9780201785654

Financial Markets and Institutions

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780201785654
ISBN10: 020178565X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher(s): Addison Wesley
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Summary

Mishkin/Eakins textbook's applied managerial perspective takes a practitioner's approach to the study of the structure, function, and management of financial markets and institutions. This substantially revised edition also showcases major new material incorporating the latest research and data in every part of the text, as well as new marginal Internet and end-of-chapter Web exercises.

Table of Contents

Contents in Detail ix
Preface xxvii
About the Authors xxxv
Part 1 Introduction 1(34)
Why Study Financial Markets and Institutions?
3(12)
Overview of the Financial System
15(20)
Part 2 Fundamentals of Interest Rates 35(112)
Understanding Interest Rates
37(38)
The Behavior of Interest Rates
75(44)
The Risk and Term Structure of Interest Rates
119(28)
Part 3 Central Banking and the Conduct of Monetary Policy 147(66)
Structure of Central Banks and the Federal Reserve System
149(22)
Conduct of Monetary Policy: Tools, Goals, and Targets
171(42)
Part 4 Financial Markets 213(156)
The Money Markets
215(26)
The Capital Markets
241(26)
The Efficient Market Hypothesis
267(24)
The Mortgage Markets
291(20)
The Foreign Exchange Market
311(28)
The International Financial System
339(30)
Part 5 The Financial Institutions Industry 369(226)
Theory of Financial Structure
371(30)
The Banking Firm and Bank Management
401(36)
Commercial Banking Industry: Structure and Competition
437(28)
Savings Associations and Credit Unions
465(26)
Banking Regulation
491(28)
Insurance Companies and pension Funds
519(28)
Venture Capita! Firms, Finance Companies, and Financial Conglomerates
547(20)
Investment Banks, Brokerage Firms, and Mutual Funds
567(28)
Part 6 The Management of Financial Institutions 595(54)
Risk Management in Financial Institutions
597(20)
Hedging with Financial Derivatives
617(32)
Glossary 649(14)
Answers to Selected Questions and Problems 663(14)
Index 677

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