CONTENTS IN BRIEF
PART I Introduction 1
1 Why Study Money, Banking, and Financial Markets? ....................3
2 An Overview of the Financial System................................23
3 What Is Money? ................................................44
PART II Financial Markets 59
4 Understanding Interest Rates......................................61
5 The Behavior of Interest Rates .....................................85
6 The Risk and Term Structure of Interest Rates........................120
7 The Stock Market, the Theory of Rational Expectations,
and the Efficient Market Hypothesis ...............................141
PART III Financial Institutions 167
8 An Economic Analysis of Financial Structure ........................169
9 Banking and the Management of Financial Institutions.................201
10 Banking Industry: Structure and Competition........................229
11 Economic Analysis of Banking Regulation...........................260
12 Nonbank Finance..............................................287
13 Financial Derivatives ...........................................309
PART IV Central Banking and the Conduct of Monetary Policy 333
14 Structure of Central Banks and the Federal Reserve System .............335
15 Multiple Deposit Creation and the Money Supply Process ..............357
16 Determinants of the Money Supply ................................374
17 Tools of Monetary Policy ........................................393
18 Conduct of Monetary Policy: Goals and Targets ......................411
PART V International Finance and Monetary Policy 433
19 The Foreign Exchange Market....................................435
20 The International Financial System ................................462
21 Monetary Policy Strategy: The International Experience ................487
PART VI Monetary Theory 515
22 The Demand for Money.........................................517
23 The Keynesian Framework and the ISLM Model......................536
24 Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the ISLM Model .......................561
25 Aggregate Demand and Supply Analysis ............................582
26 Transmission Mechanisms of Monetary Policy: The Evidence ............603
27 Money and Inflation............................................632
28 Rational Expectations: Implications for Policy........................658