Table of Contents

Part I Introduction
1. Why Study Money, Banking, and Financial Markets?
2. An Overview of the Financial System
3. What Is Money? A Comparative Approach to Measuring Money
 
Part II Financial Markets
4. Understanding Interest Rates
5. The Behavior of Interest Rates
6. The Risk and Term Structure of Interest Rates
7. The Stock Market, the Theory of Rational Expectations, and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
 
Part III Financial Institutions
8. An Economic Analysis of Financial Structure
9. Financial Crises and the Subprime Debacle
10. Banking and the Management of Financial Institutions
11. Economic Analysis of Financial Regulation
12. Banking Industry: Structure and Competition

Part IV Central Banking and the Conduct of Monetary Policy
13. Central Banks:  A Global Perspective
14. The Money Supply Process
15. Tools of Monetary Policy
16. What Should Central Banks Do? Monetary Policy Goals, Strategy, and Tactics
 
Part V International Finance and Monetary Policy
17. The Foreign Exchange Market:  Exchange Rates and Applications
18. The International Financial System
 
Part VI Monetary Policy
19. The Demand for Money
20. The ISLM Model
21. Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the ISLM Model
22. Aggregate Demand and Supply Analysis
23. Transmission Mechanisms of Monetary Policy: The Evidence
24. Money and Inflation
25. Rational Expectations: Implications for Policy

About the Author

Frederic S. Mishkin is the Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and from September 2006 to August 2008 was a member (governor) of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He has also been a Senior Fellow at the FDIC Center for Banking Research, and past President of the Eastern Economic Association. Since receiving his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, he has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Princeton University, and University Columbia. He has also received an honorary professorship from the Peoples (Renmin) University of China. From 1994 to 1997 he was Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an associate economist of the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve System.

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“The Mishkin text matters. The ideas and principles throughout the book are important for students and policymakers. The text is well organized, and I have never read any better explanation of economic principles.”
–J. Robert Gillette, University of Kentucky
 
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–Gabriele Camera, Purdue University
 
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–Joao Ricardo Faria, University of Texas—Dallas

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–Alla A. Melkumian, Western Illinois University

“[Mishkin] is relevant, challenging, and interesting. It provides clear explanations of monetary theory and policy. It is up-to-date. The Federal Reserve material features an insider’s perspective.”
–Linda Hooks, Washington and Lee University

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