Financial Markets and Institutions - Couverture souple

Howells, P; Bain, K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0582228948 ISBN 13 : 9780582228948

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 1994

Synopsis

Ce manuel très accessible explore la relation entre les systèmes financiers et l'économie « réelle ». La deuxième édition couvre les changements survenus dans les institutions financières à la suite des effets du «Big Bang» et de l'intégration européenne. Les auteurs intègrent une mine d'informations statistiques pour illustrer et soutenir le texte.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

With its clear and accessible style, Financial Markets and Institutions will help students make sense of the financial activity that is so widely and prominently reported in the media. Looking at the subject from the economist’s perspective, the book takes a practical, applied approach and theory is covered only where absolutely necessary in order to help students understand events as they happen in the real world.  This fourth edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the changes that have occurred in the financial system in recent years.

Key Features

• New

• Thoroughly updated to include new figures and recent legislative and regulatory changes.
• New Stresses the role of asymmetric information in recent financial scandals.
• Provides a comprehensive coverage of the workings of financial markets.
• Contains sufficient theory to enable students to make sense of current events.
• Up-to-date coverage of the role of central banks and the regulation of financial systems.
• Focuses on UK and European financial activity, context and constraints.
• Offers a wealth of statistical information to illustrate and support the text.
• Extensive pedagogy includes boxes, illustrations, keywords/concepts, discussion questions, chapter openers, chapter summaries and numerous worked examples.
• Frequent use of material from the Financial Times.
• Regularly maintained and updated Companion Website containing valuable teaching and learning material.

Financial Markets and Institutions will be appropriate for a wide range of courses in money, banking and finance.  Students taking financial markets and institutions courses as part of accounting, finance, economics and business studies degrees will find this book ideally suited to their needs.  The book will also be suitable for professional courses in business, banking and finance.

Peter Howells is Reader in Economics at the University of the West of England, specializing in monetary and financial economics.

Keith Bain is formerly of the University of East London where he specialized in monetary economics and macroeconomic policy.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This highly accessible textbook explores the relationship between the financial systems and the `real' economy. The second edition contains coverage of the changes that have occurred in financial institutions as a result of the effects of the `Big Bang' and European integration. The authors incorporate a wealth of statistical information to illustrate and support the text.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0582228948
• ISBN 13: 9780582228948
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie