Financial System: An Introduction
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740305920
Table of contents: title: Sisältö; title: Lenders & borrowers; title: Learning objectives; title: Introduction; title: Defining the financial system; title: Non-financial lenders and borrowers; title: Summary; title: Bibliography; title: Financial intermediaries; title: Learning objectives; title: Introduction; title: Financial intermediation; title: Economic functions of financial intermediaries; title: Financial intermediaries: classification and relationship; title: Financial intermediaries: intermediation functions; title: Summary; title: Bibliography; title: Financial instruments; title: Learning objectives; title: Introduction; title: Financial instrument types; title: Share instruments; title: Debt instruments; title: Deposit instruments; title: Instruments of investment vehicles; title: Derivative instruments; title: Summary; title: Bibliography; title: Financial markets; title: Learning objectives; title: Introduction; title: Money market; title: Bond market; title: Share market; title: Foreign exchange market; title: Derivative markets; title: Organisational structure of financial markets; title: Financial market participants & short selling; title: Clearing and settlement; title: Bibliography and references; title: Money creation; title: Learning objectives; title: Introduction; title: What is money?; title: Measures of money; title: Monetary banking institutions; title: Money and its role; title: Uniqueness of banks; title: The cash reserve requirement; title: Money creation does not start with a bank receiving a deposit; title: Money creation is not dependent on a cash reserve requirement; title: Is “money supply” a misnomer?; title: The money identity and the creation of money; title: Role of the central bank in money creation; title: How does a central bank maintain a bank liquidity shortage?; title: Bibliography; title: Price discovery; title: Learning objectives; title: Introduction; title: What is price discovery?; title: Price discovery and information; title: The mechanics of price discovery; title: Role of central bank in price discovery; title: Composition of interest rates; title: Role of interest rates in security valuation; title: Market efficiency; title: Bibliography and references; title: Endnotes