The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets - Hardcover

Mishkin, Frederic S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0321014405 ISBN 13: 9780321014405

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1998

Synopsis

What's new about Mishkin's The ECONOMICS of MONEY, BANKING, and FINANCIAL MARKETS, Fifth Edition?

Substantially revised, expanded coverage of key topics, including:
*Central banking and the conduct of monetary policy, with new, high-interest "Inside the Fed" boxes
*Money and economic activity. focusing on the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy and featuring in-depth discussion of the credit review
*Theory of rational expectations and efficient capital markets
*New trends in banking regulation and supervision

All-new chapter on financial derivatives--forwards, futures, swaps, and options

Complete integration of international topics in the text narrative, as well as the revision of key chapters for an enhanced international focus

Increased applications orientation throughout, including more than fifty applications woven into the text

Streamlined organization for a smoother topical flow

New full-color PowerPoint electronic transparencies to support your lectures, featuring all the book's figures and tables plus the Lecture Notes from the Instructor's Resource Manual

New Mishkin Website featuring teaching materials and tips, links to data sources and Federal Reserve websites, and more! Visit this rich resource at http://hepg.awl.com/mishkin/money&amp...

Also visit Addison Wesley Longman's home page at http://www.awl.com/

About this title

About the Author

Frederic S. Mishkin is the Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and from September 2006 to August 2008 was a member (governor) of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He has also been a Senior Fellow at the FDIC Center for Banking Research, and past President of the Eastern Economic Association. Since receiving his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, he has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Princeton University, and University Columbia. He has also received an honorary professorship from the Peoples (Renmin) University of China. From 1994 to 1997 he was Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an associate economist of the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve System.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321014405
• ISBN 13: 9780321014405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 832