Financial Markets and the Economy |
Contents
An Overview | 1 |
Saving and Investment and the Role of Financial | 18 |
VII | 32 |
Copyright | |
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accounts agencies amount balances borrowing budget business firms capital gains capital markets cash changes Chapter commercial banks commercial paper companies corporate bonds cost debt decline deficit demand deposits demand for loanable depository institutions discount rate discussed dollar earnings Economic Review effect Eurodollar expected factors Fed funds Federal Reserve Bank Federal Reserve System financial assets financial institutions financial markets fluctuations forecast foreign government securities growth higher hold income increase inventories investment investors issues lenders lending liabilities liquidity loan associations loanable funds maturity ment monetary base monetary policy money market money supply open market operations payments percent period prime rate profits purchase rate of interest rate of return ratio real capital assets reduce relatively reserve requirements rise risk savings and loan secondary market sell short-term interest rates spending stock market stock prices term structure theory trading Treasury bills Treasury securities yield curve