Contents Chapter 1 Why Study Money, Banking, and Financial Markets?................................................1 Chapter 2 An Overview of the
... [Show More] Financial System.................................... .....................................20 Chapter 3 What Is Money?..............................................................................................................43 Chapter 4 Understanding Interest Rates.......................................................................................60 Chapter 5 The Behavior of Interest Rates......................................................................................78 Chapter 6 The Risk and Term Structure of Interest Rates ........................................................111 Chapter 7 The Stock Market, the Theory of Rational Expectations, and the Efficient Market Hypothesis.........................................................................133 Chapter 8 An Economic Analysis of Financial Structure..........................................................150 Chapter 9 Financial Crises and the Subprime Meltdown.........................................................169 Chapter 10 Banking and the Management of Financial Institutions.........................................181 Chapter 11 Economic Analysis of Financial Regulation.............................................................208 Chapter 12 Banking Industry: Structure and Competition ........................................................229 Chapter 13 Central Banks and the Federal Reserve System.......................................................253 Chapter 14 The Money Supply Process ........................................................................................274 Chapter 15 Tools for Monetary Policy...........................................................................................319 Chapter 16 The Conduct of Monetary Policy: Strategy and Tactics..........................................343 Chapter 17 The Foreign Exchange Market ...................................................................................363 Chapter 18 The International Financial System ...........................................................................389 Chapter 19 The Demand for Money ..............................................................................................418 Chapter 20 The ISLM Model...........................................................................................................440 Chapter 21 Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the ISLM Model.......................................................466 Chapter 22 Aggregate Demand and Supply Analysis ................................................................493 Chapter 23 Transmission Mechanisms of Monetary Policy: The Evidence .............................511 Chapter 24 Money and Inflation ....................................................................................................529 Chapter 25 Rational Expectations: Implications for Policy ........................................................549 [Show Less]