Introduction and overview -- Money: a unique financial instrument -- Financial markets, instruments, and market makers -- The Federal Reserve System -- Interest rates and bond prices -- The structure of interest rates -- Market efficiency -- How exchange rates are determined -- The money market -- The corporate and government bond markets -- The stock market -- The mortgage market -- The international financial system -- An introduction to financial intermediaries and risk -- Commercial banking structure, regulation, and performance -- Saving associations and credit unions -- Regulation of the banking and financial services industry -- Insurance companies -- Pension plans and finance companies -- Securities firms, mutual funds, and financial conglomerates -- Risk assessment and management -- Forward, futures, and options agreements -- Asset-backed securities, interest-rate agreements, and currency swaps -- Monetary policy and the financial system -- Monetary policy in a globalized financial system.
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