MARKETS & INSTITUTIONS 2 ND EDITION FOR BRANDL
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Part I: MONEY AND ITS PRICES.
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1. Introduction and Overview. U U
2. Money, Money Supply and Interest. U U U U
3. Bonds, Loanable Funds & Interest Rates. 4. I
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nterest Rates in More Detail.
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Part II: MONEY AND OVERALL ECONOMY.
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5. Financial Markets through Time. U U U
6. Aggregate Supply & Aggregate Demand. 7. U U U U UU U
Banks and Money. U U
Part III: CENTRAL BANKS.
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8. Central Banks. U
9. Monetary Policy Tools. U U
10. The Money Supply Process. 11U U U UU
. Monetary Policy & Debates. Part I
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V: THE BANKING SYSTEM.
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12. Bank Management. U
13. Bank Risk Management & Performance. 14.
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Banking Regulation. U
Part V: FINANCIAL MARKETS.
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15. Money Markets. 16.
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Bond Markets. U
17. Stock Market & Efficiency. 18. M
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ortgage Market. U
Part VI: GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS. 19. F
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X.
20. Global Financial Architecture. Part V U U U U
II: FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
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21. Thrifts and Finance Companies. 22. U U U UU
UInsurance and Pensions. U U
23. Mutual Funds. U
24. Investment Banks and Private Equity. U U U U
, CHAPTER 2: Money, Money Supply, and Interest
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2-1 Section Review U
What is the difference between money and currency? When are they the same?
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Why might they bedifferent?
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ANS: Money is anything generally accepted in exchange for goods & services. Cu
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rrency is issued by a bank or the government, but currency is not necessarily mone
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y. They are the same when they are accepted in exchange for goods and services
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. Currencies can stop being money if people don’t acceptthem in exchange for go
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ods and services. If a group of people stop using currency to get goods and servic
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es but instead use bananas, then the bananas are the money.
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2. How many prices must a barter economy have if the economy has four good
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s? What if it has 400goods? Explain why having a money in the second case is
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beneficial.
ANS: 4 goods = 6 prices; 400 goods = 79,800 prices. Money allows us to speciali
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ze and reduce our searchcost. Money allows us to reduce the number of stated pri
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ces we need. U U
3. YouUreadUaUnewsUstoryUaboutUaUcountryUthatUisUsufferingUfromUrapid,UongoingUincr
eases in the cost ofliving. Which characteristic of money is being directly negative
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ly impacted in that economy?
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a. Unit of account U U
b. Medium of exchange U U
c. Store of value U U
d. Double coincidenc U
e of wantsANS: C
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2-2 Section Review U
1. BobbyUisUconfused.UHeUstates:U“SinceUprisonersUareUnotUallowedUtoUsmokeUinUprisonsU
any longer, Radford’s examples of cigarettes in POW camps no longer applies
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.” How would you explain to Bobby how Radford’s story demonstrates the con
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cepts of the criteria of money, as well as the importance ofchanges in the mon
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ey supply? U
, ANS: Any asset that is able to be standardized, divisible, durable and in demand co
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uld be currency, as long as it is a medium of exchange, is a unit of account and
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has store of value. Cigarettes were money.
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