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Make the link between theory and real-world easier for students with the most up-to-date Money and Banking text on the market today!
Hubbard/O'Brien's textbook presents Money, Banking, and the Financial System in the context of contemporary events, policy, and business with an integrated explanation of today's financial crisis. Reviewers tell us that Hubbard/O'Brien helps make the link between theory and real-world easier for students!
The second edition retains the modern approach of the first edition, while incorporating several changes to address feedback from instructors and students and also to reflect the authors' own classroom experiences.
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List of contents
- PART I. FOUNDATIONS
- 1. Introducing Money and the Financial System
- 2. Money and the Payments System
- 3. Interest Rates and Rates of Return
- 4. Determining Interest Rates
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- PART II. FINANCIAL MARKETS
- 5. The Risk Structure and Term Structure of Interest Rates
- 6. The Stock Market, Information, and Financial Market Efficiency
- 7. Derivatives and Derivative Markets
- 8. The Market for Foreign Exchange
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- PART III. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
- 9. Transactions Costs, Asymmetric Information, and the Structure of the Financial System
- 10. The Economics of Banking
- 11. Investment Banks, Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, and the Shadow Banking System
- 12. Financial Crises and Financial Regulation
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- PART IV. MONETARY POLICY
- 13. The Federal Reserve and Central Banking
- 14. The Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet and the Money Supply Process
- 15. Monetary Policy
- 16. The International Financial System and Monetary Policy
- PART V. THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND THE MACROECONOMY
- 17. Monetary Theory I: The Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Model
- 18. Monetary Theory II: The IS—MP Model
Summary
Make the link between theory and real-world easier for students with the most up-to-date Money and Banking text on the market today!
Hubbard/O'Brien's textbook presents Money, Banking, and the Financial System in the context of contemporary events, policy, and business with an integrated explanation of today’s financial crisis. Reviewers tell us that Hubbard/O'Brien helps make the link between theory and real-world easier for students!
This edition retains the modern approach of the first edition, while incorporating several changes to address feedback from instructors and students and also to reflect the authors’ own classroom experiences.
