__ FIN3712 Money and Capital Markets
Prerequisite
FIN2700 Money, Banking, and Financial Markets OR ECO3713 Economics of Money and Banking
Course Description
The course introduces the structural characteristics of the money and capital markets such as the operations, regulations, management, instruments, market participants, and their roles in the financial environment. Topics include how the intermediaries facilitate the flow of funds and how interest rates change with the market conditions.
Class Material
Chapter 1 - Functions and Roles of the Financial Systems in the Global Economy
Chapter 2 - Financial Assets, Money, Financial Transactions, and Financial Institutions
Chapter 3 - The Financial Information Marketplace
Chapter 4 - The Future of the Financial Systems and the Money and Capital Markets
Chapter 5 - The Determinants of Interest Rates
Chapter 6 - Measuring and Calculating Interest Rates and Financial Asset Prices
Chapter 7 - Inflation and Deflation, Yield Curves, Duration and its impacts on Interest rates and Asset Prices
Chapter 8 - The Risk Structure of Interest Rates
Chapter 10 - Introduction to the Money Markets
Chapter 11 - Commercial Banks, Major Corporations in the Money markets
Chapter 20 - The Market for Corporate Stocks
Chapter 14 - The Commercial Banking Industry: Structure, Products and Management
Chapter 15 - Non-bank Thrift Institutions: Savings and Loans, Saving Banks, Credit Unions, and Money market Funds
Chapter 16 - Mutual Funds, Insurance Companies, Investment Banks, and other Financial Firms
Chapter 17 - Regulation of the Financial Institutions Sector
Chapter 18 - Federal, State, and Local Governments Operating in the Financial Markets
Chapter 12 - Roles and Services of the Federal Reserve and Other Central Banks around the World
Chapter 19 - Business Borrowing: Corporate bonds, bank loans and other forms of debts
Chapter 21 - Consumer lending and borrowing
Chapter 22 - The Residential Mortgage Market
Chapter 23 - International Transactions and Currency
Chapter 24 - International Banking