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About the Authors
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Preface
1
Money, Banking, and Your World
1.1
Dreams Dashed
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Hope Springs
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The Financial System
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2.1
Evil and Brilliant Financiers?
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Financial Systems
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Asymmetric Information: The Real Evil
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Financial Markets
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Financial Intermediaries
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Competition Between Markets and Intermediaries
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Regulation
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2.8
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Money
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3.1
Of Love, Money, and Transactional Efficiency
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3.2
Better to Have Had Money and Lost It Than to Have Never Had Money at All
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3.3
A Short History of Moolah
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Commodity and Credit Monies
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3.5
Measuring Money
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Interest Rates
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4.1
The Interest of Interest
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Present and Future Value
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Compounding Periods
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Pricing Debt Instruments
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What’s the Yield on That?
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Calculating Returns
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Inflation and Interest Rates
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The Economics of Interest-Rate Fluctuations
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Interest Rate Fluctuations
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Liquidity Preference
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Predictions and Effects
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The Economics of Interest-Rate Spreads and Yield Curves
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6.1
A Short History of Interest Rates
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Interest-Rate Determinants I: The Risk Structure
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The Determinants of Interest Rates II: The Term Structure
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Rational Expectations, Efficient Markets, and the Valuation of Corporate Equities
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The Theory of Rational Expectations
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Valuing Corporate Equities
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Financial Market Efficiency
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Evidence of Market Efficiency
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Financial Structure, Transaction Costs, and Asymmetric Information
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8.1
The Sources of External Finance
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Transaction Costs, Asymmetric Information, and the Free-Rider Problem
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Adverse Selection
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Moral Hazard
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Agency Problems
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Bank Management
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9.1
The Balance Sheet
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Assets, Liabilities, and T-Accounts
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Bank Management Principles
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Credit Risk
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Interest-Rate Risk
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Innovation and Structure in Banking and Finance
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Early Financial Innovations
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Innovations Galore
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Loophole Mining and Lobbying
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Banking on Technology
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Banking Industry Profitability and Structure
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The Economics of Financial Regulation
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11.1
Public Interest versus Private Interest
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The Great Depression as Regulatory Failure
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The Savings and Loan Regulatory Debacle
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Better but Still Not Good: U.S. Regulatory Reforms
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Basel II’s Third Pillar
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The Financial Crisis of 2007–2008
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Financial Crises
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Asset Bubbles
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Financial Panics
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Lender of Last Resort
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The Crisis of 2007–2008
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Central Bank Form and Function
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America’s Central Banks
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The Federal Reserve System’s Structure
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Other Important Central Banks
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Central Bank Independence
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The Money Supply Process
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Open Market Operations
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A Simple Model of Multiple Deposit Creation
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The Money Supply and the Money Multiplier
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A More Sophisticated Money Multiplier for M1
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The M2 Money Multiplier
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Summary and Explanation
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Monetary Policy Tools
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The Federal Funds Market and Reserves
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Open Market Operations and the Discount Window
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The Monetary Policy Tools of Other Central Banks
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Monetary Policy Targets and Goals
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A Short History of Fed Blunders
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Foreign Exchange
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The Economic Importance of Currency Markets
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Determining the Exchange Rate
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Long-Run Determinants of Exchange Rates
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Short-Run Determinants of Exchange Rates
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Modeling the Market for Foreign Exchange
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International Monetary Regimes
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The Trilemma, or Impossible Trinity
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Two Systems of Fixed Exchange Rates
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The Choice of International Policy Regime
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Money Demand
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Head to Head: Friedman versus Keynes
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IS-LM
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The IS-LM Model
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IS-LM in Action
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Shifting Curves: Causes and Effects
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Aggregate Demand Curve
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Aggregate Supply and Demand, the Growth Diamond, and Financial Shocks
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Equilibrium Analysis
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The Growth Diamond
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Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanisms
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Modeling Reality
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How Important Is Monetary Policy?
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Transmission Mechanisms
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Inflation and Money
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Why Have Central Bankers So Often Gotten It Wrong?
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Rational Expectations Redux: Monetary Policy Implications
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Rational Expectations
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Inflation Busting
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