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Part I , THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Chapter 1 An Overview of Financial Markets and Institutions
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1.1 The Financial System
1.2 Financial Markets and Direct Financing
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PEOPLE & EVENTS: Wall Street Faces Global Competition
1.3 Types of Financial Markets
1.4 The Money Markets
1.5 The Capital Markets
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1.6 Financial Intermediaries and Indirect Financing
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1.7 Types of Financial Intermediaries
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1.8 The Risks Financial Institutions Manage
1.9 Regulation of the Financial System
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Chapter 2 The Federal Reserve and Its Powers
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2.1 Origins of The Federal Reserve System
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Free Banking and Wildcat Banks
2.2 The Current Structure of The Fed
2.3 Monetary Powers of the Board of Governors
2.4 The Fed's Regulatory Powers
2.5 Independence of The Fed
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2.6 The Fed's Balance Sheet
Learning by Doing 2.1: Computing a Bank's Excess Reserve Position
2.7 The Fed's Role In Check Clearing
2.8 Federal Reserve Tools of Monetary Policy
PEOPLE & EVENTS: A Contrast In Style: Greenspan versus Bernanke
Learning by Doing 2.2: Calculating a Bank's Reserve Position
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Chapter 3 The Fed and Interest Rates
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3.1 Federal Reserve Control of The Money Supply
3.2 The Fed's Influence on Interest Rates
3.3 The Treasury Department and Fiscal Policy
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3.4 Goals of Monetary Policy
PEOPLE & EVENTS: The Fed as Lender of Last Resort: Preventing a Financial Panic
3.5 The Fed and the Economy
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Black Monday
3.6 Complications of Monetary Policy
3.7 Anatomy of a Financial Crisis
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Part II, How Interest Rates Are Determined
Chapter 4 The Level of Interest Rates
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4.1 What Are Interest Rates?
4.2 The Real Rate of Interest
4.3 Loanable Funds Theory of Interest
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4.4 Price Expectations and Interest Rates
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Irving Fisher (1867-1947): Economist
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PEOPLE & EVENTS: Estimating the Expected Rate of Inflation from TIPS
4.5 Forecasting Interest Rates
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Chapter 5 Bond Prices and Interest Rate Risk
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5.1 The Time Value of Money
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5.2 Bond Pricing
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Rogue Trader Incurs Huge Financial Losses for French Bank
Learning by Doing 5.1: Calculating the Price of a Bond Using a Financial Calculator
5.3 Bond Yields
Learning by Doing 5.2: Calculating the Yield to Maturity on a Bond
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5.4 Important Bond Pricing Relationships
5.5 Interest Rate Risk and Duration
Learning by Doing 5.3: Calculating the Duration of a Bond
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Betting the Farm on Interest Rates and Losing
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Chapter 6 The Structure of Interest Rates
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6.1 The Term Structure of Interest Rates
Learning by Doing 6.1: Using the Term Structure Formula to Calculate Implied Forward Rates
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6.2 Default Risk
PEOPLE & EVENTS: The Credit-Rating Club
6.3 Tax Treatment
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6.4 Marketability
6.5 Options of Debt Securities
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6.6 Behavior of Interest Rates over the Business Cycle
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Part III, Financial Markets

Chapter 7 Money Markets
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7.1 How the Money Markets Work
7.2 Economic Role of the Money Markets
7.3 Characteristics of Money Market Instruments
7.4 Treasury Bills
Learning by Doing 7.1: Calculating the Discount Yield
Learning by Doing 7.2: Calculating the Bond Equivalent Yield
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7.5 Federal Agency Securities
7.6 Fed Funds
7.7 Other Major Money Market Instruments
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Lehman Brothers "Creative" Accounting: Repos 105 and 108
7.8 Money Market Participants
7.9 The Impact of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis on the Money Markets
PEOPLE & EVENTS: How Breaking the Buck (Almost) Broke the Commercial Paper Market
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Chapter 8 Bond Markets
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8.1 Functions of the Capital Markets
8.2 U.S. Government and Agency Securities
PEOPLE & EVENTS: What Do Negative Yields on TIPS Tell Us?
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8.3 State and Local Government Bonds
8.4 Corporate Bonds
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8.5 Financial Guarantees
8.6 Securitized Credit Instruments
8.7 Financial Market Regulators
8.8 Bond Markets Around the World Are Increasingly Linked
8.9 The Impact of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis on the Bond Markets
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Chapter 9 Mortgage Markets
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9.1 The Unique Nature of Mortgage Markets
9.2 Types of Mortgages
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9.3 Mortgage Qualifying
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9.4 Mortgage-backed Securities
Learning by Doing 9.1: Determining How Much Home You Can Buy
9.5 Mortgage Prepayment Risk
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9.6 Participants in the Mortgage Markets
PEOPLE & EVENTS: The Rise and Fall of Fannie and Freddie
9.7 Relationship between Mortgage Markets and the Capital Markets
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Chapter 10 Equity Markets
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10.1 What Are Equity Securities?
10.2 Equity Markets
10.3 Equity Trading
10.4 Global Stock Markets
10.5 Regulation of Equity Markets
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10.6 Equity Valuation Basics
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Learning by Doing 10.1: Valuing a Stock
10.7 Equity Risk
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10.8 Stock Market Indexes
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Circuit Breakers, Black Monday, and the Flash Crash
10.9 The Stock Market as a Predictor of Economic Activity
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Chapter 11 Derivatives Markets
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11.1 The Nature of Derivative Securities
11.2 Forward Markets
11.3 Futures Markets
11.4 Uses of the Financial Futures Markets
Learning by Doing 11.1: Hedging Risk in a Stock Portfolio
11.5 Risks in the Futures Markets
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11.6 Options Markets
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11.7 Regulations of the Futures and Options Markets
11.8 Swap Markets
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Swap Market Regulation
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Chapter 12 International Markets
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12.1 Difficulties of International Trade
12.2 Exchange Rates
12.3 Balance of Payments
12.4 Foreign Exchange Markets
12.5 Spot and Forward Transactions
Learning by Doing 12.1: Using Forward Contracts to Hedge Exchange Rate Risks
PEOPLE & EVENTS: The Big Mac Test of Purchasing Power Parity
12.6 Capital Flows and Exchange Rates
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12.7 Government Intervention in Foreign Exchange Markets
Learning by Doing 12.2: Using Purchasing Power Parity to Determine the Expected Exchange Rate
12.8 Financing International Trade
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12.9 International Money and Capital Markets
12.10 The Globalization of Financial Markets
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Part IV, Commercial Banking

Chapter 13 Commercial Bank Operations
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13.1 An Overview of the Banking Industry
13.2 Balance Sheet for a Commercial Bank
13.3 The Source of Bank Funds
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13.4 Bank Uses of Funds: Bank Investments and Cash Assets
13.5 Bank Uses of Funds: Loans and Leases
13.6 Loan Pricing
13.7 Analysis of Loan Credit Risk
PEOPLE & EVENTS: What's Your Score?
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13.8 Fee-Based Services
13.9 Off-Balance-Sheet Banking
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13.10 Bank Earnings
13.11 Bank Performance
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13.12 Bank and Financial Holding Companies
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Chapter 14 International Banking
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14.1 Development of International Banking
14.2 Regulation of Overseas Banking Activities
14.3 Delivery of Overseas Banking Services
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Credit Risk, Subprime Mortgage Crisis of 2007, and Challenges to the Banking Sector
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14.4 International Lending
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14.5 Foreign Banks in the United States
14.6 Future Directions of International Banking
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Chapter 15 Regulation of Financial Institutions
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15.1 Reasons for Regulation
15.2 Bank Failures and Regulation
PEOPLE & EVENTS: WaMu and the Destructive "Power of Yes"
15.3 Safety and Soundness Regulation: Deposit Insurance
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15.4 Deposit Insurance Issues
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15.5 Safety and Soundness Regulation: Capital Requirements
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15.6 Bank Examinations
15.7 Structure and Competition Regulations
15.8 Consumer Protection Regulations
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Dual or Dueling Banking Systems?
15.9 Bank Regulators
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Part V, Financial Institutions

Chapter 16 Thrift Institutions and Finance Companies
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16.1 Historical Development of Savings Institutions
16.2 Operations of Savings Institutions
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16.3 Credit Unions
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Demographic Change Brings Opportunity
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Commercial Banks Versus Credit Unions
16.4 Thrift Institutions Around the Globe
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16.5 Finance Companies
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Chapter 17 Insurance Companies and Pension Funds
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17.1 Insurance
PEOPLE & EVENTS: 9/11 and Katrina: Insurance Coverage Disputes
17.2 The Insurance Industry
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17.3 Life and Health Insurance
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17.4 Property and Liability Insurance
Learning by Doing 17.1: Calculating Policyholders' Surplus
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17.5 Pensions
Learning by Doing 17.2: Measuring Insurance Company Profitability with the Combined Ratio
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Chapter 18 Investment Banking
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18.1 The Relationship between Commercial and Investment Banking
18.2 Primary Services of an Investment Bank
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Where, Oh, Where Have All the Investment Banks Gone?
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18.3 Private Equity
Learning by Doing 18.1: Evaluating a Venture Capital Investment
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Chapter 19 Investment Companies
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19.1 Investment Companies
19.2 Open-end Mutual Funds
Learning by Doing 19.1: Calculating Net Asset Value
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Money Market Mutual Funds Breaking the Buck
19.3 Closed-end Mutual Funds
19.4 Exchange-traded Funds
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19.5 Hedge Funds
PEOPLE & EVENTS: Hedge Funds and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
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19.6 Real Estate Investment Trusts
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Chapter 20 Risk Management in Financial Institutions
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20.1 The Dilemma: Profitability versus Safety
20.2 Liquidity Management
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PEOPLE & EVENTS: Operational Risk
20.3 Managing Credit Risk
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PEOPLE & EVENTS: Counterparty Controversy: AIG and Its Risky Risk Management
20.4 Measuring and Assessing Interest Rate Risk
20.5 Hedging Interest Rate Risk
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Learning by Doing 20.1: Measuring Interest Rate Risk
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