Principles of money, banking, and financial markets

Author(s)

• Ritter, Lawrence S.
• Silber, William L.

Bibliographic Information

Principles of money, banking, and financial markets

Lawrence S. Ritter, William L. Sibler

Basic Books, c1991

7th ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Updated to reflect recent changes in the monetary and financial system, this book begins with an outline of the basics of financial and monetary theory, and goes on to examine particular areas, such as central banking, financial markets and interest rates and international finance.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 The basics: introducing money
• money, the economy and inflation
• financial instruments and markets
• financial institutions - purposes and profile
• calculating interest rates
• the level of interest rates. Part 2 Intermediaries and banks: the regulation and structure of depository institutions
• commercial bank asset and liability management
• nondeposit financial institutions
• international banking
• financial innovation
• the payments system. Part 3 The art of central banking: who's in charge here?
• bank reserves and the money supply
• the instruments of central banking
• understanding movements in bank reserves
• hitting the monetary targets
• budget deficits and the money supply. Part 4 Monetary theory: the foundations of monetarism
• the Keynesian framework
• the ISLM world
• monetarists and Keynesians in the ISLM world
• monetarists and Keynesians - an aggregate supply and demand perspective
• rational expectations - theory and policy implications
• empirical evidence on the effectiveness of monetary policy. Part 5 Financial markets and interest rates: risk and portfolio choice
• flow of funds accounting - a framework for financial analysis
• the structure of interest rates
• the structure and performance of securities markets
• the government securities market
• other fixed-income markets - corporate bonds, municipals, and mortgages
• equities, the stock market and interest rates
• financial futures and options. Part 6 International finance: foreign exchange rates
• fixed versus floating exchange rates
• balance of payments accounting
• the gold standard
• epilogue - careers in banking and financial markets.

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Details

• NCID: BA13056464
• ISBN:
  • 0465063535
• LCCN: 90019852
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [New York]
• Pages/Volumes: xxvii, 644 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HG221
  • DC20 : 332
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Money
  • LCSH : Banks and banking
  • LCSH : Finance