Money, the Financial System,
and the Economy plus MyEconLab Student Access Kit, 5/E
R. Glenn Hubbard, Columbia
University
Description
Hubbard builds his text upon
the idea that students must develop an economic understanding for organizing concepts and
facts, evaluate current and historical events using economic analysis, and use economic
principles and tools to predict future outcomes and changes in the economic system.
Hubbard's modern approach
employs economic principles to illustrate the evolution and conduct of financial markets
and institutions, drawing a full picture of the relationship between economic performance
and the international developments within these markets and institutions.
The Fifth Edition provides a
timely perspective on key issues-corporate accounting scandals, development in the
international financial system, the post 911 recession, and more-using relevant new data
and up-to-the-minute real-world applications, while presenting it all in a clear, concise
style.
Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION.
1. Introducing Money
and the Financial System.
2. Money and the
Payments System.
3. Overview and the
Financial System.
II. INTEREST RATES.
4. Interest Rates and
Rates of Return.
5. The Theory of
Portfolio Allocation.
6. Determining Market
Interest Rates.
7. Risk Structure and
Term Structure of Interest Rates.
III. FINANCIAL MARKETS.
8. The Foreign
Exchange Market and Exchange Rates.
9. Derivative
Securities and Derivative Markets.
10. Information and
Financial Market Efficiency.
11. Reducing Transactions
Costs and Information Costs.
IV. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
12. What Financial
Institutions Do.
13. The Business of Banking.
14. The Banking Industry.
15. Banking Regulation:
Crisis and Response.
16. Banking in the
International Economy.
V. THE MONEY SUPPLY PROCESS
AND MONETARY POLICY.
17. The Money Supply
Process.
18. Changes in the Monetary
Base.
19. Organization of Central
Banks.
20. Monetary Policy Tools.
21. The Conduct of Monetary
Policy.
22. The International
Financial System and Monetary Policy.
VI. THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND
THE MACROECONOMY.
23. The Demand for Money.
24. Linking the Financial
System and the Economy: The IS-LM-FE Model.
25. Aggregate Demand and
Aggregate Supply.
26. Money and Output in the
Short Run.
27. Information Problems and
Channels for Monetary Policy.
28. Inflation: Causes and
Consequences.
Features
- Accessible presentation of
theory with a contemporary focus on current events and recent research.
- Integration of international
topics throughout.
- Pedagogy-a variety of
pedagogical features with an applied emphasis.
- Consider This-Using
current events or research, the author sparks interesting classroom discussion through
these timely boxed discussions. New discussion include the impact of 9/11 on stock prices,
the trade offs presented by the expansions of deposit insurance around the globe, and
whether currency boards are likely to be successful in Argentina.
- Other Times, Other Places-These
boxes extend the chapter's economic approach to historical events or developments in other
countries.
- Using the News-Excerpts
present data from the WSJ and other sources.
- Case Studies-Chapters
conclude with detailed descriptions of recent events that extend the theory in the
chapter. Included are new discussions of bubble-like tendencies of the boom & bust of
the NASDAQ traded technology stocks, corporate governance initiatives in the wake of the
2001-2002 accounting scandals, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and the U.S.
debate over inflation targeting.
- Moving from Theory to
Practice-Placed at the end of each chapter, this feature consists of an actual news
article, followed by a section that uses the chapter's principles to evaluate the article.
These are all NEW in this edition and examine issues such as the boom in mortgage
financing fueled by 40-year lows in interest rates, the debate over the notion that higher
deficits mean higher interest rates, and the role of the viable banking firms in
rebuilding Iraq.
832 PAGES