Money and Banking: An International Text

by Eyler; Robert

• ISBN13: 9780415775465
• ISBN10: 0415775469
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book focuses on the core issues in money and banking providing students with a background in how financial markets work, how banks as businesses function, how central banks make decisions, and how monetary policy affects the global economy.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. xi
List of case studies	p. xiii
List of symbols and abbreviations	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Understanding money	p. 1
Interest rates and financial markets	p. 10
Risk and risk aversion	p. 25
Equity markets, stock markets and real estate	p. 37
Derivative asset and insurance markets	p. 50
Financial intermediaries	p. 66
The microeconomics of banking	p. 81
Connections between commercial and central banking	p. 103
The domestic market for money	p. 119
Money, employment, inflation and expectations	p. 134
Money and the macroeconomy	p. 155
Monetary policy in the open macroeconomy	p. 184
The world economy and monetary policy choices	p. 203
The future of banking, private and central	p. 216
Notes	p. 224
References	p. 227
Index	p. 232
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