Money and Capital Markets

Part One: The Global Financial System in Perspective 1: Functions and Roles of the Financial System in the Global Economy 2: Financial Assets, Money, Financial Transactions, and Financial Institutions 3: The Financial Information Marketplace 4: The Future of the Financial System and the Money and Capital Markets Part Two: Interest Rates and the Prices of Financial Assets 5: The Determinants of Interest Rates: Competing Ideas 6: Measuring and Calculating Interest Rates and Financial Asset Prices 7: Inflation and Deflation, Yield Curves, and Duration: Impact on Interest Rates and Asset Prices 8: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates: Defaults, Prepayments, Taxes, and Other Rate-Determining factors 9: Interest-Rate Forecasting and Hedging: Swaps, Financial Futures, and Options Part Three: The Money Market and Central Banking 10: Introduction to the Money Market and the Roles Played by Governments and Security Dealers 11: Commercial Banks, Major Corporations, and Federal Credit Agencies in the Money Market 12: Roles and Services of the Federal Reserve and Other Central Banks Around the World 13: The Tools and Goals of Central Bank Monetary Policy Part Four: Financial Institutions: Organization, Activities, and Regulation 14: The Commercial Banking Industry: Structure, Products, and Management 15: Nonbank Thrift Institutions: Savings and Loans, Savings Banks, Credit Unions, and Money Market Funds 16: Mutual Funds, Insurance Companies, Investment Banks, and Other Financial Firms 17: Regulation of the Financial Institutions' Sector Part Five -- Governments and Businesses in the Financial Marketplace 18: Federal, State, and Local Governments Operating in the Financial Markets 19: Business Borrowing: Corporate Bonds, Asset-Backed Securities, Bank Loans, and Other Forms of Business Debt 20: The Market for Corporate Stock Part Six: Households in the Financial Marketplace 21: Consumer Lending and Borrowing 22: The Residential Mortgage Market Part Seven: The International Financial System 23: International Transactions and Currency Values 24: International Banking Money and Capital Markets Dictionary Index