Money and Banking
Version 3.0
By Robert E. Wright
Included Supplements
Key Features
- Learning Objectives to introduce each chapter.
- “Stop and Think” boxes to better extend concepts to new areas.
- Practice exercises on mathematical concepts.
- Customizable.
This textbook is suitable for the following courses: Money and Banking and Financial Firms and Markets.
Wright discusses the subject of Money and Banking in a succinct and clear format for students. Leaving the more difficult mathematics for your classroom, the textbook covers all of the major topics and recent coverage. Version 3.0 features a new section that describes and assesses Islamic banking and insurance and includes up-to-date graphs to the latest available month or quarter.
New in This Version
- New section on Islamic Banking and Financial Stability.
- Updated time-series graphs through the end of 2016.
- Added discussions of regulations and central banking practices.
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
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Chapter 1: Money, Banking, and Your World
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Chapter 2: The Financial System
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Chapter 3: Money
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Chapter 4: Interest Rates
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Chapter 5: The Economics of Interest Rate Fluctuations
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Chapter 6: The Economics of Interest-Rate Spreads and Yield Curves
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Chapter 7: Rational Expectations, Efficient Markets, and the Valuation of Corporate Equities
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Chapter 8: Financial Structure, Transaction Costs, and Asymmetric Information
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Chapter 9: Bank Management
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Chapter 10: Innovation and Structure in Banking and Finance
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Chapter 11: The Economics of Financial Regulation
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Chapter 12: Financial Derivatives
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Chapter 13: Financial Crises: Causes and Consequences
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Chapter 14: Central Bank Form and Function
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Chapter 15: The Money Supply Process and the Money Multipliers
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Chapter 16: Monetary Policy Tools
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Chapter 17: Monetary Policy Targets and Goals
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Chapter 18: Foreign Exchange
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Chapter 19: International Monetary Regimes
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Chapter 20: Money Demand
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Chapter 21: IS-LM
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Chapter 22: IS-LM in Action
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Chapter 23: Aggregate Supply and Demand and the Growth Diamond
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Chapter 24: Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanisms
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Chapter 25: Inflation and Money
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Chapter 26: Rational Expectations Redux: Monetary Policy Implications

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