505 2 Introduction and overview -- Principles of money -- Therole of money and credit -- The overseer: the federal reserve system -- Financial markets, instruments, and market makers -- Part 2: Financial prices -- Interest rates and bond prices -- The structure of interest rates -- Market efficiency -- How exchange rates are determined -- Part 3: Financial institutions -- An introduction to financial intermediaries and risk -- Commercial banking structure, regulation, and performance -- Financial innovation -- Financial instability and strains on the financial system -- Regulation of the banking system and the financial services industry -- Securities firms, mutual funds, and financial conglomerates -- Part 4: Financial markets -- The stock market -- The debt markets -- Forward, futures, and options agreements -- The international financial system -- Part 5: Monetary theory -- The Fed, Depository institutions, and the money supply process -- The demand for real money balances and market equilibrium -- Financial aspects of the household, business, government, and rest-of-the world sectors -- Aggregate demand and aggregate supply -- Part 6: Monetarypolicy -- The challenges of monetary policy - The process of monetary policy formulation -- Policy implementation --Monetary policy in a globalized financial system |