Introduction to the Pan Caribbean or Money and Capital Markets

Introduction to the Pan-Caribbean

Author: Tracey Skelton

With its diverse histories of slavery, plantations, colonialism and independence, the Caribbean is richly layered, highly complex and a wonderful example of people's resistance. The pan-Caribbean region also provides an excellent geography through which to understand and analyze the complex processes of globalization, development, migration, tourism, and social and cultural relations. This book is an excellent introduction and is your map through one of the most extraordinary and remarkable parts of the world.

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Money and Capital Markets

Author: Peter S Ros

This highly successful text continues to gain market share in addition to holding to a very loyal base of business. This text, while highly descriptive is also very comprehensive. It analyzes the entire financial system and its component parts with an expanded discussion in nearly every chapter of the trend toward globalization of financial markets and institutions. It also discusses all major types of financial instruments and provides a thorough grounding in interest rate and security price determination.

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An introductory textbook on how money and capital markets around the globe work to fulfill the varied roles of facilitating savings and investment, making payments, supplying credit, accumulating wealth, supplying liquidity, protecting against risk, and supporting public policy. The 4th edition (3rd was 1989) contains an expanded discussion of the techniques of risk management, particularly futures and options contracts and swaps. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	The Financial System in Perspective
Ch. 1	The Role of the Financial System in the Global Economy	3
Ch. 2	Financial Assets, Money, and Financial Transactions	28
Ch. 3	Sources of Information for Financial Decision Making in the Money and Capital Markets	53
Pt. 2	Financial Institutions in the Financial System
Ch. 4	Commercial Banks and Money Creation	85
Ch. 5	Nonbank Thrift Institutions: Credit Unions, Savings and Loan Associations, Savings Banks, and Money Market Mutual Funds	122
Ch. 6	Insurance Companies, Pension Funds, and Other Financial Institutions	146
Pt. 3	Interest Rates and Security Prices
Ch. 7	Interest Rates in the Financial System	181
Ch. 8	Relationships between Interest Rates and Security Prices	213
Ch. 9	Inflation, Yield Curves, and Duration: Their Relationship to Interest Rates and Security Prices	237
Ch. 10	Marketability, Default Risk, Call Privileges, Taxes, and Other Factors Affecting Interest Rates	275
Ch. 11	Interest Rate Forecasting and Hedging against Interest Rate Risk	301
Ch. 12	Financial Futures Contracts and Options on Futures	331
Pt. 4	The Money Market
Ch. 13	Characteristics of the Money Market	371
Ch. 14	Treasury Bills, Dealer Loans, and Repurchase Agreements	386
Ch. 15	Federal Funds, Negotiable CDs, and Loans from the Discount Window	407
Ch. 16	Commercial Paper and Federal Agency Securities	428
Ch. 17	International Money Market Instruments: Bankers' Acceptances, and Eurodollars	448
Pt. 5	The Consumer in the Financial Markets
Ch. 18	Consumer Lending and Borrowing	471
Ch. 19	The Residential Mortgage Market	499
Pt. 6	Businesses in the Financial Markets
Ch. 20	Business Borrowing in the Money and Capital Markets	527
Ch. 21	Corporate Stock	557
Pt. 7	Government in the Financial Markets
Ch. 22	Central Banking and the Role of the Federal Reserve	539
Ch. 23	The Tools of Monetary Policy	616
Ch. 24	Indicators and Goals of Monetary Policy	643
Ch. 25	The Treasury in the Financial Markets	675
Ch. 26	State and Local Governments in the Financial Markets	708
Pt. 8	The International Financial System and the Future
Ch. 27	The Balance of Payments and International Transactions	735
Ch. 28	The Markets for Foreign Exchange	756
Ch. 29	International Banking	788
Ch. 30	The Future of the Financial Systems	806
	Appendix A: Security Credit Ratings
	Appendix B: Present Value, Annuity, Compound Interest, and Annual Percentage Rate (APR) Tables
	Money and Capital Markets Dictionary
	Index