弗雷德里克•S•米什金,1976年于美国麻省理工学院获经济学博士学位。曾先后执教于美国的芝加哥大学、西北大学、普林斯顿大学和哥伦比亚大学。1994—1997年,曾任纽约联邦储备银行研究部执行副主席兼主任,美联储公开市场委员会经济学家。现为哥伦比亚大学商学院教授,同时兼任美国国民经济研究局研究员,FDIC中心银行高级研究员,东部经济协会主席,中国人民大学荣誉教授,世界银行、国际货币基金组织和许多国家中央银行的顾问。其主要研究领域为货币政策、金融市场和宏观经济学,迄今已出版《货币、利率和通货膨胀》(Money,Interest Rates and Inflation)、《货币金融学》(The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets)等十余部专著与教材,并在专业期刊中发表了100余篇学术论文。 斯坦利•G•埃金斯,东卡罗来纳大学商学院副院长,具有丰富的金融从业经验,曾是费尔班克斯**国民银行的副总裁和审计长,也是商业和房地产信贷主任,还是知名保险公司DenaliTitie and EscrowAgericy的创始人。他曾在很多学术杂志上发表文章,如《商业和经济学季刊》、《金融研究杂志》、《国际金融分析评论》。
英文目录: Preface About the Authors PART ONE INTRODUCTION 1 Chapter 1 Why Study Financial Markets and Institutions? 1 Why Study Financial Markets? 2 Why Study Financial Institutions? 5 Applied Managerial Perspective 7 How We Will Study Financial Markets and Institutions 8 Web Exercise 9 Concluding Remarks 11 Chapter 2 Overview of the Financial System 14 Function of Financial Markets 15 Structure of Financial Markets 16 Internationalization of Financial Markets 18 Function of Financial Intermediaries: Indirect Finance 20 Types of Financial Intermediaries 25 Regulation of the Financial System 28 PART TWO FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL MARKETS Chapter 3 What Do Interest Rates Mean and What Is Their Role in Valuation? 33 Measuring Interest Rates 34 The Distinction Between Real and Nominal Interest Rates 44 The Distinction Between Interest Rates and Returns 46 Chapter 4 Why Do Interest Rates Change? 59 Determinants of Asset Demand 59 Supply and Demand in the Bond Market 63 Changes in Equilibrium Interest Rates 66 Chapter 5 How Do Risk and Term Structure Affect Interest Rates? 81 Risk Structure of Interest Rates 81 Term Structure of Interest Rates 88 Chapter 6 Are Financial Markets Efficient? 106 The Efficient Market Hypothesis 107 Evidence on the Efficient Market Hypothesis 110 Overview of the Evidence on the Efficient Market Hypothesis Behavioral Finance 119 PART THREE FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 122 Chapter 7 Why Do Financial Institutions Exist? 122 Basic Facts About Financial Structure Throughout the World 122 Transaction Costs 125 Asymmetric Information: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard 127 The Lemons Problem: How Adverse Selection Influences Financial Structure 127 How Moral Hazard Affects the Choice Between Debt and Equity Contracts 132 How Moral Hazard Influences Financial Structure in Debt Markets 135 Conflicts of Interest 141 Chapter 8 Why Do Financial Crises Occur and Why Are They So Damaging to the Economy? 149 Asymmetric Information and Financial Crises 150 Dynamics of Financial Crises in Advanced Economies 150 Dynamics of Financial Crises in Emerging Market Economies 162 PART FOUR CENTRAL BANKING AND THE CONDUCT OF MONETARY POLICY 173 Chapter 9 Central Banks: A Global Perspective 173 Origins of the Federal Reserve System 174 Structure of the Federal Reserve System 174 How Independent Is the Fed? 177 Structure and Independence of the European Central Bank 179 Central Banks Around the World 183 Explaining Central Bank Behavior 189 Should the Central Banks Be Independent? 189 Chapter 10 Conduct of Monetary Policy: Tools, Goals, Strategy, and Tactics 194 The Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet 194 The Market for Reserves and the Federal Funds Rate 197 Tools of Monetary Policy 203 Discount Policy 205 Reserve Requirements 207 Monetary Policy Tools of the European Central Bank 209 The Price Stability Goal and the Nominal Anchor 210 Other Goals of Monetary Policy 212 Should Price Stability Be the Primary Goal of Monetary Policy? 213 Inflation Targeting 215 Central Banks’ Response to Asset-Price Bubbles: Lessons from the 2007–2009 Financial Crisis 219 Tactics: Choosing the Policy Instrument 223 PART FIVE FINANCIAL MARKETS 230 Chapter 11 The Money Markets 230 The Money Markets Defined 231 The Purpose of the Money Markets 233 Who Participates in the Money Markets? 234 Money Market Instruments 236 Comparing Money Market Securities 247 Chapter 12 The Bond Market 252 Purpose of the Capital Market 252 Capital Market Participants 253 Capital Market Trading 253 Types of Bonds 254 Treasury Notes and Bonds 254 Municipal Bonds 258 Corporate Bonds 260 Financial Guarantees for Bonds 265 Current Yield Calculation 265 Finding the Value of Coupon Bonds 267 Investing in Bonds 269 Chapter 13 The Stock Market 273 Investing in Stocks 273 Computing the Price of Common Stock 278 How the Market Sets Security Prices 281 Errors in Valuation 283 Stock Market Indexes 285 Buying Foreign Stocks 286 Regulation of the Stock Market 288 Chapter 14 The Mortgage Markets 292 What Are Mortgages? 293 Characteristics of the Residential Mortgage 294 Types of Mortgage Loans 298 Mortgage-Lending Institutions 301 Loan Servicing 302 Secondary Mortgage Market 303 Securitization of Mortgages 304 Chapter 15 The Foreign Exchange Market 311 Foreign Exchange Market 312 Exchange Rates in the Long Run 315 Exchange Rates in the Short Run: A Supply and Demand Analysis 318 Explaining Changes in Exchange Rates 321 Chapter 15 Appendix The Interest Parity Condition 334 Comparing Expected Returns on Domestic and Foreign Assets 334 Interest Parity Condition 336 Chapter 16 The International Financial System 338 Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market 338 Balance of Payments 342 Exchange Rate Regimes in the International Financial System 344 Capital Controls 353 The Role of the IMF 354 PART SIX THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INDUSTRY Chapter 17 Banking and the Management of Financial Institutions 360 The Bank Balance Sheet 361 Basic Banking 364 General Principles of Bank Management 366 Off-Balance-Sheet Activities 374 Measuring Bank Performance 377 Chapter 18 Financial Regulation 384 Asymmetric Information and Financial Regulation 384 The 1980s Savings and Loan and Banking Crisis 400 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 401 Banking Crises Throughout the World in Recent Years 402 The Dodd-Frank Bill and Future Regulation 404 Chapter 19 Banking Industry: Structure and Competition 409 Historical Development of the Banking System 409 Financial Innovation and the Growth of the Shadow Banking System 412 Structure of the US Commercial Banking Industry 426 Bank Consolidation and Nationwide Banking 428 Separation of the Banking and Other Financial Service Industries 432 Thrift Industry: Regulation and Structure 433 International Banking 435 Chapter 20 The Mutual Fund Industry 440 The Growth of Mutual Funds 440 Mutual Fund Structure 442 Investment Objective Classes 446 Fee Structure of Investment Funds 451 Regulation of Mutual Funds 452 Hedge Funds 453 Conflicts of Interest in the Mutual Fund Industry 456 Chapter 21 Insurance Companies and Pension Funds 462 Insurance Companies 463 Fundamentals of Insurance 463 Growth and Organization of Insurance Companies 466 Types of Insurance 466 Pensions 478 Types of Pensions 479 Regulation of Pension Plans 484 The Future of Pension Funds 487 Chapter 22 Investment Banks, Security Brokers and Dealers, and Venture Capital Firms 489 Investment Banks 490 Securities Brokers and Dealers 497 Regulation of Securities Firms 501 Relationship Between Securities Firms and Commercial Banks 502 Private Equity Investment 502 Private Equity Buyouts 506 PART SEVEN THE MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 511 Chapter 23 Risk Management in Financial Institutions 511 Managing Credit Risk 512 Managing Interest-Rate Risk 515 Chapter 24 Hedging with Financial Derivatives 530 Hedging 530 Forward Markets 531 Financial Futures Markets 532 Stock Index Futures 541 Options 544 Interest-Rate Swaps 550 Credit Derivatives 553
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