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I INTRODUCTION
1.
Why Study Financial Markets and
Institutions?
2.
Overview of the Financial System
II FUNDAMENTALS OF INTEREST RATES
3.
Understanding Interest Rates
3a. Rent,
Interest, and Capitalization
4.
The Behavior of Interest Rates
5.
The Risk and Term Structure of
Interest Rates
5a. Information and Financial Markets
5b. Behavioral Finance and Behavioral Economics
5c. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply: An
Overview
III CENTRAL BANKING AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY
6.
Central Banks and the Federal Reserve
System
6a. Money
and Banking
6b. Classical
and Neoclassical Monetary Theory
6c. Keynesian
Monetary Theory
7.
Conduct of Monetary Policy: Tools,
Goals, and Targets
7a. Monetary
and Fiscal Policies: Interdependencies
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IV FINANCIAL MARKETS
8.
The Money Markets
9.
The Capital Markets
10.
The Efficient Market Hypothesis
11.
The Mortgage Markets
12.
The Foreign Exchange Market
13.
The International Financial System
V THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INDUSTRY
14.
Theory of Financial Structure
15.
The Banking Firm and Bank Management
16.
Commercial Banking Industry:
Structure and Competition
17.
Savings Associations and Credit Unions
18.
Banking Regulation
19.
Insurance Companies and Pension
Funds
20.
Venture Capital, Finance
Companies, and Conglomerates
21.
Investment Banks, Brokerage
Firms, and Mutual Funds
VI THE MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
22.
Risk Management in Financial Institutions
23.
Hedging
with Financial Derivatives
VII Other Question Formats
Essay
Questions True-False Matching
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