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| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Why Study Money, Banking, and Financial Markets? | p. 3 |
| What Is Money? | p. 20 |
| An Overview of the Financial System | p. 38 |
| Fundamentals of Interest Rates | |
| Understanding Interest Rates | p. 67 |
| A Simple Approach to Portfolio Choice: The Theory of Asset Demand | p. 94 |
| The Behavior of Interest Rates | p. 103 |
| The Risk and Term Structure of Interest Rates | p. 132 |
| Financial Institutions | |
| An Economic Analysis of Financial Structure | p. 157 |
| The Banking Firm and Bank Management | p. 198 |
| The Banking Industry | p. 228 |
| The Crisis in Banking Regulation | p. 249 |
| Nonbank Financial Institutions | p. 272 |
| Financial Innovation | p. 297 |
| The Money Supply Process | |
| Multiple Deposit Creation: Introducing the Money Supply Process | p. 321 |
| Determinants of the Money Supply | p. 336 |
| Explaining Depositor and Bank Behavior: The Complete Money Supply Model | p. 359 |
| The Federal Reserve System and the Conduct of Monetary Policy | |
| The Structure of the Federal Reserve System | p. 387 |
| Understanding Movements in the Monetary Base | p. 406 |
| The Tools of Monetary Policy | p. 425 |
| The Conduct of Monetary Policy: Targets and Goals | p. 440 |
| International Finance | |
| The Foreign Exchange Market | p. 467 |
| The International Financial System and Monetary Policy | p. 500 |
| Monetary Theory | |
| The Demand for Money | p. 523 |
| The Keynesian Framework and the ISLM Model | p. 554 |
| Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the ISLM Model | p. 582 |
| Aggregate Demand and Supply Analysis | p. 604 |
| Money and Economic Activity: The Empirical Evidence | p. 633 |
| Money and Inflation | p. 663 |
| The Theory of Rational Expectations and Efficient Capital Markets | p. 691 |
| Rational Expectations: Implications for Policy | p. 715 |
| Mathematical Appendix to Chapter 5 | p. MA-1 |
| Mathematical Appendix to Chapter 23 | p. MA-10 |
| Mathematical Appendix to Chapter 25 | p. MA-17 |
| Glossary | p. G-1 |
| Answers to Selected Questions and Problems | p. A-1 |
| Index | p. I-1 |
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