The economics of money, banking, and financial markets / Frederic S. Mishkin.

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Introduction -- Why study money, banking, and financial markets -- An overview of the financial system -- What is money -- The meaning of interest rates -- The behavior of interest rates -- The risk and term structure of interest rates -- The stock market, the theory of rational expectations, and the efficient market hypothesis -- An economic analysis of financial structure -- Banking and the management of financial institutions -- Economic analysis of financial regulation -- Financial crises -- Nonbank finance -- Conflicts of interest in the financial industry -- Central banks and the federal reserve system -- He money supply process -- Tools of monetary policy -- The conduct of monetary policy : strategy and tactics -- The foreign exchange market -- The international financial system -- Quantity theory, inflation, and the demand for money -- Aggregate demand and supply analysis -- Monetary policy theory -- Transmission mechanisms of monetary policy -- Glossary -- Credits -- Index.