"The last 30 years have been dramatic for the financial services industry. In the1990s and 2000s, boundaries between the traditional industry sectors, such as commercial banking and investment banking, broke down and competition became increasingly global in nature. Many forces contributed to this breakdown in interindustry and intercountry barriers, including financial innovation, technology, taxation, and regulation. Then in 2008-2009, the financial services industry experienced the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Even into the mid-2010s, the U.S. and world economies have not recovered from this crisis. It is in this context that this book is written. As the economic and competitive environments change, attention to profit and, more than ever, risk become increasingly important. This book offers a unique analysis of the risks faced by investors and savers interacting through both financial institutions and financial markets, as well as strategies that can be adopted for controlling and better managing these risks. Special emphasis is also put on new areas of operations in financial markets and institutions such as asset securitization, off-balance-sheet activities, and globalization of financial services"--
Second edition of a successful textbook that provides an insightful analysis of the world financial system.
"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 ...
Financial Markets and Institutions's unifying analytic framework and proven practitioner approach enables students to both understand and apply core concepts. The authors incorporate the financial practitioner's approach through its emphasis...
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.
After an introduction to financial markets and market participants, including asset management firms, credit rating agencies, and investment banking firms, the book covers risks and asset pricing, with a new overview of risk; the structure ...
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.