Financial Markets and Institutions (The McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate) - Hardcover

Anthony Saunders; Marcia Millon Cornett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0078034663 ISBN 13: 9780078034664

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2011

Synopsis

Financial Markets and Institutions, 5e offers a unique analysis of the risks faced by investors and savers interacting through financial institutions and financial markets, as well as strategies that can be adopted for controlling and managing risks. Special emphasis is put on new areas of operations in financial markets and institutions such as asset securitization, off-balance-sheet activities, and globalization of financial services.

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About the Author:

Anthony Saunders is the John M. Schiff Professor of Finance and the Chair of the Department of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University.  Professor Saunders received his PhD from the London School of Economics and has taught both undergraduate and graduate level courses at NYU since 1978.  Throughout his academic career, his teaching and research have specialized in financial institutions and international banking.  He has served as a visiting professor all over the world, including INSEAD, the Stockholm School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne.  He is currently on the Executive Committee of the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions, NYU.
His research has been published in all the major money and banking and finance journals and in several books.  In addition, he has authored or co-authored several professional books, the most recent of which is Credit Risk Measurement: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1999.

Marcia Millon Cornett is the Rehn Professor of Business at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She received her B.S. degree in Economics from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and her M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Finance from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Dr. Cornett has written and published several articles in the areas of bank performance, bank regulation, and corporate finance. Articles authored by Dr. Cornett have appeared in such academic journals as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Financial Economics, Financial Management, and the Journal of Banking & Finance. She served as an associate editor of Financial Management and is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Financial Services Research, FMA Online, the Multinational Finance Journal and the Review of Financial Economics. Dr. Cornett is currently a member of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, and the Finance Committee of the SIU Credit Union. Dr. Cornett has also taught at the University of Colorado, Boston College, and Southern Methodist University. She is a member of the Financial Management Association, the American Finance Association, and the Western Finance Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0078034663
• ISBN 13: 9780078034664
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 784