Individuals, Institutions, and Markets

Individuals, Institutions, and Markets
Author: C. Mantzavinos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2004-05-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521548335

This book shows how the institutional framework of a society emerges and how markets within institutions work.

Financial Markets and Institutions

Financial Markets and Institutions
Author: Anthony Saunders
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Financial institutions
ISBN: 9780071086745

Financial Markets and Institutions, 5e offers a unique analysis of the risks faced by investors and savers interacting through financial institutions and financial markets, as well as strategies that can be adopted for controlling and managing risks. Special emphasis is put on new areas of operations in financial markets and institutions such as asset securitization, off-balance-sheet activities, and globalization of financial services.

Financial Markets and Institutions

Financial Markets and Institutions
Author: Jakob de Haan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 110702594X

Second edition of a successful textbook that provides an insightful analysis of the world financial system.

Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure

Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure
Author: Gerard Caprio
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 635
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0123978734

This title begins its description of how we created a financially-intergrated world by first examining the history of financial globalization, from Roman practices and Ottoman finance to Chinese standards, the beginnings of corporate practices, and the advent of efforts to safeguard financial stability.

Foundations of Global Financial Markets and Institutions, fifth edition

Foundations of Global Financial Markets and Institutions, fifth edition
Author: Frank J. Fabozzi
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 1105
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262351722

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of a textbook for graduate students in finance, with new coverage of global financial institutions. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of a widely used textbook for graduate students in finance now provides expanded coverage of global financial institutions, with detailed comparisons of U.S. systems with non-U.S. systems. A focus on the actual practices of financial institutions prepares students for real-world problems. After an introduction to financial markets and market participants, including asset management firms, credit rating agencies, and investment banking firms, the book covers risks and asset pricing, with a new overview of risk; the structure of interest rates and interest rate and credit risks; the fundamentals of primary and secondary markets; government debt markets, with new material on non-U.S. sovereign debt markets; corporate funding markets, with new coverage of small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures; residential and commercial real estate markets; collective investment vehicles, in a chapter new to this edition; and financial derivatives, including financial futures and options, interest rate derivatives, foreign exchange derivatives, and credit risk transfer vehicles such as credit default swaps. Each chapter begins with learning objectives and ends with bullet point takeaways and questions.

Financial Institutions and Markets

Financial Institutions and Markets
Author: Ben Hunt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2011
Genre: Finance
ISBN: 9780170188449

Thoroughly updated, this new sixth edition of Financial Institutions and Markets focuses on Australiaa s financial system, while retaining the structure of the successful fifth edition. It examines the financial systema s three main functions a settlement, flow-of-funds and risk transfer a and provides a clear and comprehensive integrated account of the activities of Australiaa s financial institutions and markets, including the risks they face and the instruments they use. As well, the major capital and foreign exchange markets and the markets for derivatives (and their use as hedging instruments) are discussed. This new 6th edition covers recent financial innovations, such as high-frequency trading in the share market and APRAa s adoption of Basel II (and Basel III) a an explanation of how the RBA assesses the financial systema s stability. It also includes new a Industry Insightsa and a Practical Applicationsa that illustrate specific topics, such as the role of margin loans and short selling in the demise of ABC Learning. The main update for this new edition has been the development of a Lessons from the GFCa that are designed to complement the booka s explanations of a range of topics, such as the use of leverage, lending for housing, securitisation, the role of the inter-bank market, the pricing of risk in bond markets and the role of speculation in the market for Australian dollar.

Financial Institutions, Markets, and Money

Financial Institutions, Markets, and Money
Author: David S. Kidwell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780030257414

Now in its seventh edition, Financial Institutions, Markets, and Money, continues to lead the market in the introductory course to financial institutions. The text's balanced overview of the U.S. financial system, its primary institutions and markets, coupled with an introduction to international markets, creates a presentation truly reflective of today's global marketplace.

Financial Institutions and Capital Markets

Financial Institutions and Capital Markets
Author: Tim S. Campbell
Publisher: HarperCollins College
Total Pages: 680
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Divides into 4 parts: survey of financial institution and markets; interest rates and exchange rates in a global economy; innovation in financial markets; management of financial firms.

An Introduction to Financial Markets and Institutions

An Introduction to Financial Markets and Institutions
Author: Maureen Burton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2015-03-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317476751

Completely revised and updated to include the ongoing financial crisis and the Obama administration's programs to combat it, this is the best available introductory textbook for an undergraduate course on Financial Markets and Institutions. It provides balanced coverage of theories, policies, and institutions in a conversational style that avoids complex models and mathematics, making it a student-friendly text with many unique teaching features. Financial crises, global competition, deregulation, technological innovation, and growing government oversight have significantly changed financial markets and institutions. The new edition of this text is designed to capture the ongoing changes, and to present an analytical framework that enables students to understand and anticipate changes in the financial system and accompanying changes in markets and institutions. The text includes Learning Objectives and end-of-chapter Key Words and Questions, and an online Instructor's Manual is available to adopters.