Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Update Edition, The (6th Edition)

Mishkin, Frederic S.

ISBN 10: 0321113624 / ISBN 13: 9780321113627

Published by Addison Wesley, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Update Edition, The (6th Edition)
• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321113624
• ISBN 13: 9780321113627
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This market-leading textbook provides the most authoritative, applications-rich coverage of key concepts, models, and issues in money and banking. The Sixth Edition Update features a careful revision of data, figures, and boxes that reflects the current economic landscape--providing students with up-to-date information making the economic theory more relevant to their daily lives. In this text, Mishkin draws from his service as Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to offer fresh insights into the monetary policy process, the operation of the Federal Reserve, the regulation and supervision of the financial system, and the internationalization of financial markets. In addition, Mishkin provides a careful, step-by-step development of models, an approach found in the best principles of economics textbooks. In addition, the text provides a careful, step-by-step development of models and contains over 400 end-of-chapter problems to reinforce essential chapter content.

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.