Title: Markets and institutions : a contemporary introduction to financial services
Abstract: 1. Preparing for the Financial World in the Year 2000. PART I: THE NEW FINANCIAL SYSTEM. 2. Contemporary Financial Services: Major Types and Users. 3. The Role of Financial Instruments in Creating Financial Services. 4. Institutions and Innovations in the Provision of Financial Services. 5. Regulation of Financial Services: Rationale, Laws, and Issues. PART II: THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT OF FINANCIAL MARKETS: FOUNDATIONS: MONEY, THE FEDERAL RESERVE, AND INTEREST RATES. 6. Money and the Creation of Credit. 7. The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy. 8. The Level of Interest Rates in Financial Markets. PART III. PRICES, RISKS, AND YIELDS IN FINANCIAL MARKETS. 9. Prices and Values in Financial Markets. 10. Risks in Financial Markets. 11. Yields on Individual Financial Instruments. 12. Interest Rate Risk, Bond Theorems, and Duration. PART IV: SERVICES IN THE PROVISION OF LIQUIDITY: THE TRADING MARKETS IN FINANCE. 13. Liquidity and the Trading Markets in Finance. 14. The Money Markets. 15. The Capital Markets. PART V. PAYMENTS SERVICES. 16. The Contemporary Payments Services. 17. The Structure of Deposit Banking in the United States. 18. The Production of Payment Services by Depository Institutions: Managing Liquidity and Capital. 19. Foreign Exchange and International Payments. PART VI: SERVICES IN FUNDS INTERMEDIATION. 20. Financial Flows and the Channels of Funds Intermediation. 21. Indirect Finance and Portfolio Lending by Depository Institutions. 22. Indirect Finance: Contractual Providers and Asset Managers. 23. Securities Distribution: Investment Banking and Securitization. PART VI: RISKS TRANSFER AND FINANCIAL ENGINEERING. 24. Fundamentals of Derivatives: Managing Risks in Financial Markets. 25. Services and Applications of Derivatives. 26. Risk Management Using Financial Engineering and Notional Finance.
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-08-10
Language: en
Type: book
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