Money, banking, and financial markets / Stephen G. Cecchetti, Brandeis International Business School , Kermit L. Schoenholtz, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Revised edition of Money, banking, and financial markets, [2015]

About the Author

Stephen Cecchetti

Stephen Cecchetti is currently Professor of International Economics and Finance at the International Business School, Brandeis University, and Director of Research at the Rosenberg Institute for Global Finance. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an organization of distinguished academic economists who specialize in policy-oriented empirical studies of national and world economies, and a consultant to central banks around the world. He is currently serving as a consultant to the European Central Bank's Inflation Persistence Project. Prior to joining the faculty at Brandeis, he was Professor of Economics at Ohio State University. From August 1997 to September 1999, he was Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as well as Associate Economist of the Federal Open Market Committee. Professor Cecchetti received a S.B. in Economics from M.I.T. in 1977, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

About the authors -- Preface -- Learning tools walkthrough -- Money and the financial system -- An introduction to money and the financial system -- Money and the payments system -- Interest rates, financial instruments, and financial markets -- Future value, present value, and interest rates -- Bonds, bond prices, and the determination of interest rates -- The risk and term structure of interest rates -- Stocks, stock markets, and market efficiency -- Derivatives: futures, options, and swaps -- Foreign exchange -- Financial institutions -- The economics of financial intermediation -- Depository institutions: banks and bank management -- Financial industry structure -- Regulating the financial system -- Central banks, monetary policy, and financial stability -- Central banks in the world today -- The structure of central banks: the federal reserve and the european central bank -- The central bank balance sheet and the money supply process -- Monetary policy: stabilizing the domestic economy -- Exchange-rate policy and the central bank -- Money growth, money demand, and modern monetary policy -- Output, inflation, and monetary policy -- Modern monetary policy and the challenges facing central bankers -- Glossary -- Photo credits --