Money, the financial system, and the economy
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Money, the financial system, and the economy
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1994
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  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Providing a current, modern approach to the subject of money, the financial system and the economy, this book integrates international material throughout. It uses an understand, evaluate and predict framework to teach the subject. Features like "Moving From Theory to Practice" and "Other Times, Other Places" give the student practice in conducting economic analysis of newspaper articles and help them in learning the historical and international underpinnings of the course. It provides flexibility in macro-coverage by offering complete chapters in IS/LM and AD/AS models. In-chapter checkpoints serve as a self-study tool in assessing students' progress in mastering concepts.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction: money, the financial system and the economy
- money and trade
- the financial system - an introduction. Part 2 Saving, investment and interest-rate determination: interest rates and rates of return
- saving, investment and interest rate determination
- the theory of portfolio selection
- understanding the risk and term structure of interest rates
- exchange rate and international interest rates
- understanding derivative markets. Part 3 Financial markets and institutions: efficient financial markets and information
- information costs and financial structure
- what do financial institutions do?
- the business of banking
- the banking industry
- banking regulation - crisis and response
- financial institutions in the global economy. Part 4 Money supply and demand: understanding the money supply process
- explaining changes in the monetary base
- the organization of the federal reserve
- the tools of monetary policy
- the conduct of monetary policy
- monetary policy and the international financial system. Part 5 The financial system and the macroeconomy: understanding the demand for money
- linking the real and financial sectors of the economy
- aggregate supply/aggregate demand
- money and economics in the short run
- financial institutions and the macroeconomy
- aggregate demand, aggregate supply and inflation. Appendix: information costs and corporate restructurings.
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