Money Banking Financial Markets

Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets heralded a dramatic shift in the teaching of the money and banking course in its first edition, and today it is still setting the standard. By applying an analytical framework to the patient, stepped-out development of models, Frederic Mishkin draws students into a deeper understanding of modern monetary theory, banking, and policy. His landmark combination of common sense applications with current, real-world events provides authoritative, comprehensive coverage in an informal tone students appreciate.

In the sprawling gothic city of New Crobuzon, a stranger requests the services of Isaac, an overweight and slightly eccentric scientist. But it is an impossible request--that of flight--and in the end Isaac's attempts will only succeed in unleashing a dark force upon the city.

Working from a macro framework based on the Fed's use of interest rate as its major policy instrument, Ball presents the core concepts necessary to understand the problems affecting the stock market, and the causes of recessions and banking crises. Underlying this framework are the intellectual foundations for the Fed's inflation targeting using the dynamic consistency problem facing policymakers.

MONEY, BANKING AND FINANCIAL MARKETS is an upper-level undergraduate text that was written with the idea that the money and banking course should be the most interesting and timely course in an economics curriculum. It provides in-depth coverage of the fundamental topics, principles and issues found in a money and banking course: the nature and functions of money, financial institutions and markets, and banking structure and regulation. The nature and structure of the Federal Reserve System is thoroughly covered in this new text, along with instruments of central bank policy, determinants of the level and term structure of interest rates, stock prices, foreign exchange rates, and the nation's money supply. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Taking a modern approach to money and banking, this text uses core microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts to explain the structure and behaviour of banks. A microeconomic perspective focuses on the bank as a firm, inviting students to view the behaviour of banks through, for example, the prism of supply-and-demand analysis and the economics of information and game theory. Integrated international coverage aims to foster students' appreciation of the global dimensions of money and banking.

A thorough discussion of traditional topics of financial institutions and markets, determinants of interest rates, determination of the money supply, tools of central bank policy, intermediate targets of monetary policy, money demand and velocity, the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, and international finance.