Money and Capital Markets
Financial Instruments in a Global Marketplace
7th Edition
Published on 1. August 1999
Book
Hardback
864 pages
978-0-07-231002-3 (ISBN)
Description
This highly successful text continues to gain market share in addition to holding to a very loyal base of business. This text, while highly descriptive is also very comprehensive. It analyzes the entire financial system and its component parts with an expanded discussion in nearly every chapter of the trend toward globalization of financial markets and institutions. It also discusses all major types of financial instruments and provides a thorough grounding in interest rate and security price determination.
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Edition
7th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 256 mm
Width: 205 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1723 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-231002-3 (9780072310023)
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Previous edition
Book
01/1997
6th Edition
Irwin Professional Publishing
€104.15
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Content
Part One: The Financial System in Perspective Chapter 1: The Many Roles of the Financial System in the Global Economy Chapter 2: Financial Assets, Money, and Financial Transactions in the Global Financial System Chapter 3: Sources of Information for Financial Decision Making in the Money and Capital Markets Part Two: The Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions Chapter 4: The Commercial Banking Industry Chapter 5: Nonbank Thrift Institutions: Savings and Loan Associations, Savings Banks, Credit Unions, and Money Market Funds Chapter 6: Mutual Funds, Pension Funds, Insurance Companies, Finance Companies, and Other Financial Institutions Chapter 7: The Regulation of Financial Institutions Part Three: Interest Rates and Security Prices Chapter 8: Interest Rates in the Financial System Chapter 9: Relationships between Interest Rates and Security Prices Chapter 10: Inflation, Yield Curves, and Duration Chapter 11: Marketability, Default Risk, Call Privileges, Prepayment Risk, Taxes, and Other Factors Affecting Interest Rates Chapter 12: Interest Rate Forecasting and Hedging against Interest Rate Risk Chapter 13: Financial Futures and Options Contracts Part Four: The Money Market Chapter 14: Characteristics of the Money Market Chapter 15: Treasury Bills, Dealer Loans, and Repurchase Agreements Chapter 16: Banks in the Money Market: Federal Funds, Negotiable CDs, and Loans from the Discount Window Chapter 17: Corporations in the Money Market: Commercial Paper and Federal Agency Securities Chapter 18: International Money Market Instruments: Bankers' Acceptances and Eurocurrency Deposits Part Five: Central Banking and Monetary Policy Chapter 19: Central Banks Around the World and the Role of the Federal Reserve System Chapter 20: The Tools of Central Bank Monetary Policy Chapter 21: Indicators and Goals of Monetary Policy Part Six: The Roles Played by Governments within the Financial System Chapter 22: The Treasury in the Financial Markets Chapter 23: State and Local Governments in the Financial Markets Part Seven: The Consumer in the Financial Markets Chapter 24: Consumer Lending and Borrowing Chapter 25: The Residential Mortgage Market Part Eight: Businesses in the Financial Markets Chapter 26: Business Borrowing Chapter 27: Corporate Stock Part Nine: The International Financial System and the Future Chapter 28: International Transactions and Currency Values Chapter 29: International Banking Chapter 30: The Future of the Financial System Cases Appendix: Present Value, Annuity, Compound Interest, and Annual Percentage Rate (APR) Tables