This thoroughly revised and updated edition of a widely used textbook for graduate students in finance now provides expanded coverage of global financial institutions, with detailed comparisons of U.S. systems with non-U.S. systems. A focus on the actual practices of financial institutions prepares students for real-world problems.
After an introduction to financial markets and market participants, including asset management firms, credit rating agencies, and investment banking firms, the book covers risks and asset pricing, with a new overview of risk; the structure of interest rates and interest rate and credit risks; the fundamentals of primary and secondary markets; government debt markets, with new material on non-U.S. sovereign debt markets; corporate funding markets, with new coverage of small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures; residential and commercial real estate markets; collective investment vehicles, in a chapter new to this edition; and financial derivatives, including financial futures and options, interest rate derivatives, foreign exchange derivatives, and credit risk transfer vehicles such as credit default swaps. Each chapter begins with learning objectives and ends with bullet point takeaways and questions.
foundations of financial markets and institutions 4th edition ebook
Phillip L. Swagel is Professor in International Economic Policy at the Maryland School of Public Policy. He directs the Thomas Schelling Distinguished Visitor Series, which brings to the university eminent policy makers and leading academics who have made sustained contributions to public policy. He comes to Maryland School of Public Policy from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, where he served as a visiting professor teaching classes on the relationship between financial markets and the economy. Swagel was also the director of the McDonough School's Center for Financial Institutions, Policy, and Governance. He is a non-resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.Swagel was Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department from December 2006 to January 2009. In that position, he advised Secretary Paulson on all aspects of economic policy. He served as a member of the TARP investment committee, and was responsible for analysis on issues including housing, financial markets, healthcare, pensions, and macroeconomic forecasts.Swagel was previously chief of staff and a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and was an economist at the IMF and the Federal Reserve Board. He has taught courses on domestic and international economics at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University in 1987 and a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1993. 2ff7e9595c
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