Financial System: An Introduction
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740305920
Table of contents: title: Obsah; title: 1. Lenders & borrowers 1.1. Learning objectives; title: 1.2. Introduction; title: 1.3. Defining the financial system; title: 1.4. Non-financial lenders and borrowers; title: 1.5. Summary; title: 1.6. Bibliography; title: 2. Financial intermediaries 2.1. Learning objectives; title: 2.2. Introduction; title: 2.3. Financial intermediation; title: 2.4. Economic functions of financial intermediaries; title: 2.5. Financial intermediaries: classification and relationship; title: 2.6. Financial intermediaries: intermediation functions; title: 2.7. Summary; title: 2.8. Bibliography; title: 3. Financial instruments 3.1. Learning objectives; title: 3.2. Introduction; title: 3.3. Financial instrument types; title: 3.4. Share instruments; title: 3.5. Debt instruments; title: 3.6. Deposit instruments; title: 3.7. Instruments of investment vehicles; title: 3.8. Derivative instruments; title: 3.9. Summary; title: 3.10. Bibliography; title: 4. Financial markets 4.1. Learning objectives; title: 4.2. Introduction; title: 4.3. Money market; title: 4.4. Bond market; title: 4.5. Share market; title: 4.6. Foreign exchange market; title: 4.7. Derivative markets; title: 4.8. Organisational structure of financial markets; title: 4.9. Financial market participants & short selling; title: 4.10. Clearing and settlement; title: 4.11. Bibliography and references; title: 5. Money creation 5.1. Learning objectives; title: 5.2. Introduction; title: 5.3. What is money?; title: 5.4. Measures of money; title: 5.5. Monetary banking institutions; title: 5.6. Money and its role; title: 5.7. Uniqueness of banks; title: 5.8. The cash reserve requirement; title: 5.9. Money creation does not start with a bank receiving a deposit; title: 5.10. Money creation is not dependent on a cash reserve requirement; title: 5.11. Is “money supply” a misnomer?; title: 5.12. The money identity and the creation of money; title: 5.13. Role of the central bank in money creation; title: 5.14. How does a central bank maintain a bank liquidity shortage?; title: 5.15. Bibliography; title: 6. Price discovery 6.1. Learning objectives; title: 6.2. Introduction; title: 6.3. What is price discovery?; title: 6.4. Price discovery and information; title: 6.5. The mechanics of price discovery; title: 6.6. Role of central bank in price discovery; title: 6.7. Composition of interest rates; title: 6.8. Role of interest rates in security valuation; title: 6.9. Market efficiency; title: 6.10. Bibliography and references; title: 7. Endnotes