This text presents an overview of how institutions participate in various financial markets. Current trends are discussed throughout the chapters, including: the use of derivatives for speculating and hedging, portfolio theory, and bank reconstruction decisions. A Wall Street Journal case study has been added at the end of each chapter in the third edition.
Recognizing that students need more than an abstract description of financial markets and institutions as they train to become managers successfully working in, or interacting with, the financial service industry,...
"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 ...
Second edition of a successful textbook that provides an insightful analysis of the world financial system.
Drawing on the author's experience, this text discusses financial markets, institutions and management techniques together in a unified theoretical framework. The practical approach reveals the similarities as well as the...
Financial Markets, Institutions & Services
Mishkin/Eakins textbook's applied managerial perspective takes a practitioner's approach to the study of the structure, function, and management of financial markets and institutions. This substantially revised edition also showcases major...
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.
Thoroughly updated, this new sixth edition of Financial Institutions and Markets focuses on Australia s financial system, while retaining the structure of the successful fifth edition.
These essays illustrate the difficulties of co-ordinating financial innovations in order to sustain their benefits for the wider economy, a theme that will be of interest to policy makers as well as economic historians.
Increased inflow of gold will relieve credit stringency, reduce interest rates and revive the economic activity. ... J .M. Keynes says that “the main effect of bank rate on the economic situation comes through the change in the ...