An Introduction To Financial Markets And Institutions

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. It provides balanced coverage of theories, policies, and institutions in a conversational style that avoids complex

Today, many financial institutions offer all types of financial services, such as banking, mutual funds, securities services, and insurance services. Although financial institutions overlap in the services they offer, the services that can be offered are distinctly different. The discussion of financial services in FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS & MARKETS, International Edition,

With its clear and accessible style, Financial Markets and Institutions will help students make sense of the financial activity that is so widely and prominently reported in the media. Looking at the subject from the economist's perspective, the book takes a practical, applied approach and theory is covered only where

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, Mishkin and Eakins examine models and concepts through the eyes of a practicing financial manager to see not onlywhy they

Now in its third edition, this successful textbook insightfully analyses the global financial system from a European perspective.

This text offers a perspective that centres on the function, pricing and institutional structure of the financial markets. It focuses on these areas because financial markets, instruments and institutions underwent substantial change in the 1990s. The authors cover the wide range of financial instruments and the structure of financial markets

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of a textbook for graduate students in finance, with new coverage of global financial institutions. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of a widely used textbook for graduate students in finance now provides expanded coverage of global financial institutions, with detailed comparisons of U.S.

This non-traditional text avoids rote memorization of institutional detail, through the use of an analytical framework that helps students not only to make sense of the financial system, with an emphasis on the USA, but also how financial institutions affe

A core text for one semester courses in Financial Institutions and Markets. A comprehensive exploration of the world's financial markets and institutions. Foundations of Financial Markets and Institutions, offers a comprehensive exploration of the revolutionary developments occurring in the world's financial markets and institutions –i.e., innovation, globalization, and deregulation–with a