Preface
About the Authors
Part One. Introduction
Chapter 1. Why Study Financial Markets and Institutions?
Chapter 2. Overview of the Financial System
Part Two. Fundamentals of Financial Markets
Chapter 3. What Do Interest Rates Mean and What Is Their Role in Valuation?
Chapter 4. Why Do Interest Rates Change?
Chapter 5. How Do Risk and Term Structure Affect Interest Rates?
Chapter 6. Are Financial Markets Efficient?
Part Three. Fundamentals of Financial Institutions
Chapter 7. Why Do Financial Institutions Exist?
Chapter 8. Why Do Financial Crises Occur and Why Are They So Damaging to the Economy?
Part Four. Central Banking and the Conduct of Monetary Policy
Chapter 9. Central Banks
Chapter 10. Conduct of Monetary Policy
Part Five. Financial Markets
Chapter 11. The Money Markets
Chapter 12. The Bond Market
Chapter 13. The Stock Market
Chapter 14. The Mortgage Markets
Chapter 15. The Foreign Exchange Market
Chapter 16. The International Financial System
Part Six. The Financial Institutions Industry
Chapter 17. Banking and the Management of Financial Institutions
Chapter 18. Financial Regulation
Chapter 19. Banking Industry: Structure and Competition
Chapter 20. The Mutual Fund Industry
Chapter 21. Insurance Companies and Pension Funds
Chapter 22. Investment Banks, Security Brokers and Dealers, and Venture Capital Firms
Part Seven. The Management of Financial Institutions
Chapter 23. Risk Management in Financial Institutions
Chapter 24. Hedging with Financial Derivatives
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