Economics / / Glenn P. Hubbard, Anthony P. O'Brien |
Autore | Hubbard Glenn P. |
Edizione | [Sixth edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Harlow, England : , : Pearson Education, Limited, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1,171 pages) : color illustrations, photographs |
Disciplina | 330 |
Collana | The Pearson Series in Economics |
Soggetto topico | Economics |
ISBN | 1-292-15993-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154946303321 |
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Macroeconomics / / R. Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien |
Autore | Hubbard R. Glenn |
Edizione | [Global edition, Fifth edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Pearson, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (744 pages) : color illustrations, photographs, tables |
Disciplina | 339 |
Collana | Pearson series in economics |
Soggetto topico | Macroeconomics |
ISBN | 1-292-07181-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Detailed Contents -- Preface -- A Word of Thanks -- Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Economics: Foundations and Models -- Is the Private Doctor's Office Going to Disappear? -- 1.1 Three Key Economic Ideas -- People Are Rational -- People Respond to Economic Incentives -- Making the Connection: Does Health Insurance Give People an Incentive to Become Obese? -- Optimal Decisions Are Made at the Margin -- Solved Problem 1.1: A Doctor Makes a Decision at the Margin -- 1.2 The Economic Problem That Every Society Must Solve -- What Goods and Services Will Be Produced? -- How Will the Goods and Services Be Produced? -- Who Will Receive the Goods and Services Produced? -- Centrally Planned Economies versus Market Economies -- The Modern "Mixed" Economy -- Efficiency and Equity -- 1.3 Economic Models -- The Role of Assumptions in Economic Models -- Forming and Testing Hypotheses in Economic Models -- Positive and Normative Analysis -- Economics as a Social Science -- Don't Let This Happen to You: Don't Confuse Positive Analysis with Normative Analysis -- Making the Connection: Should Medical School Be Free? -- 1.4 Microeconomics and Macroeconomics -- 1.5 A Preview of Important Economic Terms -- Conclusion -- An Inside Look: Look Into Your Smartphone and Say "Ahh" -- *Chapter Summary and Problems -- Appendix: Using Graphs and Formulas -- Graphs of One Variable -- Graphs of Two Variables -- Slopes of Lines -- Taking into Account More Than Two Variables on a Graph -- Positive and Negative Relationships -- Determining Cause and Effect -- Are Graphs of Economic Relationships Always Straight Lines? -- Slopes of Nonlinear Curves -- Formulas -- Formula for a Percentage Change -- Formulas for the Areas of a Rectangle and a Triangle -- Summary of Using Formulas -- Chapter 2: Trade-offs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System.
Managers at Tesla Motors Face Trade-Offs -- 2.1 Production Possibilities Frontiers and Opportunity Costs -- Graphing the Production Possibilities Frontier -- Solved Problem 2.1: Drawing a Production Possibilities Frontier for Tesla Motors -- Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs -- Economic Growth -- 2.2 Comparative Advantage and Trade -- Specialization and Gains from Trade -- Absolute Advantage versus Comparative Advantage -- Comparative Advantage and the Gains from Trade -- Don't Let This Happen to You: Don't Confuse Absolute Advantage and Comparative Advantage -- Solved Problem 2.2: Comparative Advantage and the Gains from Trade -- Making the Connection: Comparative Advantage, Opportunity Cost, and Housework -- 2.3 The Market System -- The Circular Flow of Income -- The Gains from Free Markets -- The Market Mechanism -- Making the Connection: A Story of the Market System in Action: How Do You Make an iPad? -- The Role of the Entrepreneur -- The Legal Basis of a Successful Market System -- Making the Connection: Who Owns The Wizard of Oz? -- Conclusion -- An Inside Look: What's on the Horizon at Mercedes-Benz? -- Chapter 3: Where Prices Come From: The Interaction of Demand and Supply -- Smartphones: The Indispensible Product? -- 3.1 The Demand Side of the Market -- Demand Schedules and Demand Curves -- The Law of Demand -- What Explains the Law of Demand? -- Holding Everything Else Constant: The Ceteris paribus Condition -- Variables That Shift Market Demand -- Making the Connection: Are Tablet Computers Substitutes for E-Readers? -- Making the Connection: Coke and Pepsi Are Hit by U.S. Demographics -- A Change in Demand versus a Change in Quantity Demanded -- Making the Connection: Forecasting the Demand for iPhones -- 3.2 The Supply Side of the Market -- Supply Schedules and Supply Curves -- The Law of Supply -- Variables That Shift Market Supply. A Change in Supply versus a Change in Quantity Supplied -- 3.3 Market Equilibrium: Putting Demand and Supply Together -- How Markets Eliminate Surpluses and Shortages -- Demand and Supply Both Count -- Solved Problem 3.3: Demand and Supply Both Count: A Tale of Two Letters -- 3.4 The Effect of Demand and Supply Shifts on Equilibrium -- The Effect of Shifts in Supply on Equilibrium -- Making the Connection: The Falling Price of Blu-ray Players -- The Effect of Shifts in Demand on Equilibrium -- The Effect of Shifts in Demand and Supply over Time -- Solved Problem 3.4: What Has Caused the Decline in Beef Consumption? -- Shifts in a Curve versus Movements along a Curve -- Don't Let This Happen to You: Remember: A Change in a Good's Price Does Not Cause the Demand or Supply Curve to Shift -- Conclusion -- An Inside Look: Google and Apple Face Supply and Demand Concerns in the Smartphone Market -- Chapter 4: Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting, and Taxes -- The Sharing Economy, Phone Apps, and Rent Control -- 4.1 Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus -- Consumer Surplus -- Making the Connection: The Consumer Surplus from Broadband Internet Service -- Producer Surplus -- What Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus Measure -- 4.2 The Efficiency of Competitive Markets -- Marginal Benefit Equals Marginal Cost in Competitive Equilibrium -- Economic Surplus -- Deadweight Loss -- Economic Surplus and Economic Efficiency -- 4.3 Government Intervention in the Market: Price Floors and Price Ceilings -- Price Floors: Government Policy in Agricultural Markets -- Making the Connection: Price Floors in Labor Markets: The Debate over Minimum Wage Policy -- Price Ceilings: Government Rent Control Policy in Housing Markets -- Don't Let This Happen to You: Don't Confuse "Scarcity" with "Shortage" -- Black Markets and Peer-to-Peer Sites. Solved Problem 4.3: What's the Economic Effect of a Black Market in Renting Apartments? -- The Results of Government Price Controls: Winners, Losers, and Inefficiency -- Positive and Normative Analysis of Price Ceilings and Price Floors -- 4.4 The Economic Impact of Taxes -- The Effect of Taxes on Economic Efficiency -- Tax Incidence: Who Actually Pays a Tax? -- Solved Problem 4.4: When Do Consumers Pay All of a Sales Tax Increase? -- Making the Connection: Is the Burden of the Social Security Tax Really Shared Equally between Workers and Firms? -- Conclusion -- An Inside Look At Policy: Does the Sharing Economy Increase Efficiency? -- Appendix: Quantitative Demand and Supply Analysis -- Demand and Supply Equations -- Calculating Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus -- Chapter 5: The Economics of Health Care -- How Much Will You Pay for Health Insurance? -- 5.1 The Improving Health of People in the United States -- Changes over Time in U.S. Health -- Reasons for Long-Run Improvements in U.S. Health -- 5.2 Health Care around the World -- The U.S. Health Care System -- The Health Care Systems of Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom -- Comparing Health Care Outcomes around the World -- 5.3 Information Problems and Externalities in the Market for Health Care -- Adverse Selection and the Market for "Lemons" -- Asymmetric Information in the Market for Health Insurance -- Don't Let This Happen to You: Don't Confuse Adverse Selection with Moral Hazard -- Solved Problem 5.3: If You Are Young and Healthy, Should You Buy Health Insurance? -- Externalities in the Market for Health Care -- Making the Connection: Should the Government Run the Health Care System? -- 5.4 The Debate over Health Care Policy in the United States -- The Rising Cost of Health Care -- Making the Connection: Are U.S. Firms Handicapped by Paying for Their Employees' Health Insurance?. Explaining Rapid Increases in Health Care Spending -- The Continuing Debate over Health Care Policy -- Making the Connection: How Much Is That MRI Scan? -- Conclusion -- Part 2: Firms in the Domestic and International Economies -- Chapter 6: Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance -- Facebook Learns the Benefits and Costs of Becoming a Publicly Owned Firm -- 6.1 Types of Firms -- Who Is Liable? Limited and Unlimited Liability -- Corporations Earn the Majority of Revenue and Profits -- Making the Connection: How Important Are Small Businesses to the U.S. Economy? -- 6.2 The Structure of Corporations and the Principal-Agent Problem -- Corporate Structure and Corporate Governance -- Solved Problem 6.2: Should a Firm's CEO Also Be the Chairman of the Board? -- 6.3 How Firms Raise Funds -- Sources of External Funds -- Making the Connection: The Rating Game: Is the U.S. Treasury Likely to Default on Its Bonds? -- Stock and Bond Markets Provide Capital-and Information -- Don't Let This Happen to You: When Facebook Shares Are Sold, Facebook Doesn't Get the Money -- Why Do Stock Prices Fluctuate So Much? -- Making the Connection: Following Abercrombie & Fitch's Stock Price in the Financial Pages -- 6.4 Using Financial Statements to Evaluate a Corporation -- The Income Statement -- The Balance Sheet -- 6.5 Corporate Governance Policy and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 -- The Accounting Scandals of the Early 2000s -- The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 -- Did Principal-Agent Problems Help Cause the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis? -- Making the Connection: The Ups and Downs of Investing in Facebook -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Tools to Analyze Firms' Financial Information -- Using Present Value to Make Investment Decisions -- Solved Problem 6A.1: How to Receive Your Contest Winnings -- Using Present Value to Calculate Bond Prices. Using Present Value to Calculate Stock Prices. |
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Macroeconomics / / R. Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien, Matthew Rafferty ; international editions contributions by Paramita Mukherjee, Mahuya Chakrabarti |
Autore | Hubbard R. Glenn |
Edizione | [Second edition, International edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Pearson, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (679 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map |
Disciplina | 339 |
Collana | Always learning |
Soggetto topico | Macroeconomics |
ISBN | 1-292-00131-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Chapter 1 The Long and Short of -- When You Enter the Job Market can Matter a Lot -- 1.1 What Macroeconomics Is About -- Macroeconomics in the Short Run and in the Long Run -- Long-Run Growth in the United States -- Some Countries Have Not Experienced Significant Long-Run Growth -- Aging Populations Pose a Challenge to Governments Around the World -- Unemployment in the United States -- Unemployment Rates Differ Across Developed Countries -- Inflation Rates Fluctuate Over Time and Across Countries -- Economic Policy Can Help Stabilize the Economy -- International Factors Have Become Increasingly Important in Explaining Macroeconomic Events -- 1.2 How Economists Think About Macroeconomics -- What Is the Best Way to Analyze Macroeconomic Issues? -- Macroeconomic Models -- Solved Problem 1.2: Do Rising Imports Lead to a Permanent Reduction in U.S. Employment? -- Assumptions, Endogenous Variables, and Exogenous Variablesin Economic Models -- Forming and Testing Hypotheses in Economic Models -- Making the Connection: Why Should the United States Worry About the "Euro Crisis"? -- 1.3 Key Issues and Questions of Macroeconomics -- Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms and Concepts, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercise -- Chapter 2 Measuring the Macroeconomy -- How Do We Know When We Are in a Recession? -- Key Issue and Question -- 2.1 GDP: Measuring Total Production and Total Income -- How the Government Calculates GDP -- Production and Income -- The Circular Flow of Income -- An Example of Measuring GDP -- National Income Identities and the Components of GDP -- The Relationship Between GDP and GNP -- GDP Versus GDI -- GDP and National Income -- 2.2 Real GDP, Nominal GDP, and the GDP Deflator -- Solved Problem 2.2A: Calculating Real GDP -- Price Indexes and the GDP Deflator.
Solved Problem 2.2B: Calculating the Inflation Rate -- The Chain-Weighted Measure of Real GDP -- Making the Connection: Trying to Hit a Moving Target: Forecasting with "Real-Time Data" -- Comparing GDP Across Countries -- Making the Connection: The Incredible Shrinking Chinese Economy -- 2.3 Inflation Rates and Interest Rates -- The Consumer Price Index -- Making the Connection: Does the CPI Provide a Good Measure of Inflation for a Family with College Students? -- How Accurate Is the CPI? -- The Way the Federal Reserve Measures Inflation -- Interest Rates -- 2.4 Measuring Employment and Unemployment -- Answering the Key Question -- Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms and Concepts, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercise -- Chapter 3 The U.S. Financial System -- The Wonderful World of Credit -- Key Issue and Question -- 3.1 An Overview of the Financial System -- Financial Markets and Financial Intermediaries -- Making the Connection: The Controversial World of Subprime Lending -- Making the Connection: Investing in the Worldwide Stock Market -- Banking and Securitization -- Asymmetric Information and Principal-Agent Problems in Financial Markets -- 3.2 Financial Crises, Government Policy, and the Financial System -- Financial Intermediaries and Leverage -- Bank Panics -- Government Policies to Deal with Bank Panics -- The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 -- The Mortgage Market and the Subprime Lending Disaster -- Runs on the Shadow Banking System -- Government Policies to Deal with the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 -- Making the Connection: Fed Policy During Panics, Then and Now: The Collapse of the Bank of United States in 1930 and the Collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 -- 3.3 The Money Market and the Risk Structure and Term Structure of Interest Rates -- The Demand and Supply of Money -- Shifts in the Money Demand Curve. Equilibrium in the Money Market -- Calculating Bond Interest Rates and the Concept of Present Value -- Present Value and the Prices of Stocks and Bonds -- Solved Problem 3.3: Interest Rates and Treasury Bond Prices -- The Economy's Many Interest Rates -- Answering the Key Question -- Appendix: More on the Term Structure of Interest Rates -- Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms and Concepts, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercise -- Chapter 4 The Global Financial System -- Did U.S. Monetary Policy Slow Brazil's Growth? -- Key Issue and Question -- 4.1 The Balance of Payments -- The Current Account -- The Financial Account -- The Capital Account -- 4.2 Exchange Rates and Exchange Rate Policy -- Nominal Exchange Rates -- Real Exchange Rates -- The Foreign-Exchange Market -- Exchange Rate Policy -- Policy Choices and the Current Exchange Rate Systems -- Making the Connection: Greece Experiences a "Bank Jog" -- 4.3 What Factors Determine Exchange Rates? -- Purchasing Power Parity -- Why Purchasing Power Parity Doesn't Hold Exactly -- The Interest Parity Condition -- Solved Problem 4.3: Making a Financial Killing by Buying Brazilian Bonds? -- Making the Connection: Brazilian Firms Grapple with an Unstable Exchange Rate -- 4.4 The Loanable Funds Model and the International Capital Market -- Saving and Supply in the Loanable Funds Market -- Investment and the Demand for Loanable Funds -- Explaining Movements in Saving, Investment, and the Real Interest Rate -- The International Capital Market and the Interest Rate -- Small Open Economy -- Large Open Economy -- Answering the Key Question -- Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms and Concepts, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercise -- Chapter 5 The Standard of Living over Time and Across Countries -- Who Is Number One? -- Key Issue and Question. 5.1 The Aggregate Production Function -- The Cobb-Douglas Production Function -- The Demand for Labor and the Demand for Capital -- Changes in Capital, Labor, and Total Factor Productivity -- Making the Connection: Foreign Direct Investment Increases Real GDP in China -- 5.2 A Model of Real GDP in the Long Run -- The Markets for Capital and Labor -- Combining the Factor Markets with the Aggregate Production Function -- The Division of Total Income -- Solved Problem 5.2: Calculating the Marginal Product of Labor and the Marginal Product of Capital -- What Determines Levels of Real GDP Across Countries? -- 5.3 Why Real GDP per Worker Varies Among Countries -- The per Worker Production Function -- What Determines Labor Productivity? -- Macro Data: How Well do International Capital Markets Allocate Capital? -- What Determines Real GDP per Capita? -- 5.4 Total Factor Productivity and Labor Productivity -- What Explains Total Factor Productivity? -- Making the Connection: Comparing Research and Development Spending and Labor Productivity in China and the United States -- Making the Connection: How Important Were the Chinese Economic Reforms of 1978? -- Answering the Key Question -- Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms and Concepts, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercise -- Chapter 6 Long-Run Economic Growth -- The Surprising Economic Rise of India -- Key Issue and Question -- 6.1 The Solow Growth Model -- Capital Accumulation -- The Steady State -- Transition to the Steady State -- Saving Rates and Growth Rates -- Macro Data: Do High Rates of Saving and Investment Lead to High Levels of Income? -- 6.2 Labor Force Growth and the Solow Growth Model -- Labor Force Growth and the Steady State -- The Effect of an Increase in the Labor Force Growth Rate. Solved Problem 6.2: The Effect of a Decrease in the Labor Force Growth Rate on Real GDP per Worker -- 6.3 Technological Change and the Solow Growth Model -- Technological Change -- Technological Change and the Steady State -- Steady-State Growth Rates -- 6.4 Balanced Growth, Convergence, and Long-Run Equilibrium -- Convergence to the Balanced Growth Path -- Making the Connection: Will China's Standard of Living Ever Exceed that of the United States? -- Do All Countries Converge to the Same Steady State? -- 6.5 Endogenous Growth Theory -- AK Growth Models: Reconsidering Diminishing Returns -- Two-Sector Growth Model: The Production of Knowledge -- Policies to Promote Economic Growth -- Making the Connection: What Explains Recent Economic Growth in India? -- Making the Connection: Should the Federal Government Invest in Green Energy? -- Answering the Key Question -- Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms and Concepts, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercise -- Appendix: Growth Accounting -- The Growth Accounting Equation for Real GDP -- Growth Accounting for the United States -- Total Factor Productivity as the Ultimate Source of Growth -- Chapter 7 Money and Inflation -- What Can You Buy With 100 Trillion? -- Key Issue and Question -- 7.1 What Is Money, and Why Do We Need It? -- The Functions of Money -- Commodity Money Versus Fiat Money -- Making the Connection: When Money Is No Longer Money: Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe -- How Is Money Measured? -- Which Measure of the Money Supply Should We Use? -- 7.2 The Federal Reserve and the Money Supply -- How the Fed Changes the Monetary Base -- The Process of Money Creation -- 7.3 The Quantity Theory of Money and Inflation -- The Quantity Theory of Money -- The Quantity Theory Explanation of Inflation. Making the Connection Is the Inflation Rate Around the World Going to Increase in the Near Future?. |
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Money, banking, and the financial system / / R. Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien |
Autore | Hubbard R. Glenn |
Edizione | [Second, International edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Pearson, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (663 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 332.4 |
Collana | Always learning |
Soggetto topico | Money |
ISBN | 1-292-00019-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introducing Money and the Financial System -- Is Prosperity Just Around the Corner? -- 1.1 Key Components of the Financial System -- Financial Assets -- Financial Institutions -- Making the Connection: Microlending Aids U.S. Small Businesses -- Making the Connection: What Do People Do with Their Savings? -- The Federal Reserve and Other Financial Regulators -- What Does the Financial System Do? -- Solved Problem 1.1: The Services Securitized Loans Provide -- 1.2 The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 -- Origins of the Financial Crisis.. -- The Deepening Crisis and the Response of the Fed and Treasury -- 1.3 Key Issues and Questions About Money, Banking, and the Financial System -- *Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercises -- Chapter 2 Money and the Payments System -- Who Hates the Federal Reserve? -- Key Issue and Question -- 2.1 Do We Need Money? -- Barter -- The Invention of Money -- Making the Connection: What's Money? Ask a Taxi Driver! -- 2.2 The Key Functions of Money -- Medium of Exchange -- Unit of Account -- Store of Value -- Standard of Deferred Payment -- Distinguishing Among Money, Income, and Wealth -- What Can Serve as Money? -- The Mystery of Fiat Money -- Making the Connection: Apple Didn't Want My Cash! -- 2.3 The Payments System -- The Transition from Commodity Money to Fiat Money -- The Importance of Checks -- Electronic Funds and Electronic Cash -- 2.4 Measuring the Money Supply -- Measuring Monetary Aggregates -- Making the Connection: Show Me the Money! -- Does It Matter Which Definition of the Money Supply We Use? -- 2.5 The Quantity Theory of Money: A First Look at the Link Between Money and Prices -- Irving Fisher and the Equation of Exchange -- The Quantity Theory Explanation of Inflation.
Solved Problem 2.5: The Relationship Between Money and Income -- How Accurate Are Forecasts of Inflation Based on the Quantity Theory? -- The Hazards of Hyperinflation -- What Causes Hyperinflation? -- Making the Connection: Deutsche Bank During the German Hyperinflation -- Should Central Banks Be Independent? -- Answering the Key Question -- Key Terms, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercises -- Chapter 3 Interest Rates and Rates of Return -- Will Investors Lose Their Shirts in the Market for Treasury Bonds? -- Key Issue and Question -- 3.1 The Interest Rate, Present Value, and Future Value -- Why Do Lenders Charge Interest on Loans? -- Most Financial Transactions Involve Payments in the Future -- Compounding and Discounting -- Solved Problem 3.1A: Using Compound Interest to Select a Bank CD -- Solved Problem 3.1B: How Do You Value a College Education? -- Discounting and the Prices of Financial Assets -- 3.2 Debt Instruments and Their Prices -- Loans, Bonds, and the Timing of Payments -- Making the Connection: Interest Rates and Student Loans -- 3.3 Bond Prices and Yield to Maturity -- Bond Prices -- Yield to Maturity -- Yields to Maturity on Other Debt Instruments -- Solved Problem 3.3: Finding the Yield to Maturity for Different Types of Debt Instruments -- 3.4 The Inverse Relationship Between Bond Prices and Bond Yields -- What Happens to Bond Prices When Interest Rates Change? -- Making the Connection: Banks Take a Bath on Mortgage-Backed Bonds -- Bond Prices and Yields to Maturity Move in Opposite Directions -- Secondary Markets, Arbitrage, and the Law of One Price -- Making the Connection: How to Follow the Bond Market: Reading the Bond Tables -- 3.5 Interest Rates and Rates of Return -- A General Equation for the Rate of Return on a Bond -- Interest-Rate Risk and Maturity. How Much Interest-Rate Risk Do Investors in Treasury Bonds Face? -- 3.6 Nominal Interest Rates Versus Real Interest Rates -- Answering the Key Question -- *Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercises -- Chapter 4 Determining Interest Rates -- Are There Any Safe Investments? -- Key Issue and Question -- 4.1 How to Build an Investment Portfolio -- The Determinants of Portfolio Choice -- Making the Connection: Fear the Black Swan! -- Diversification -- Making the Connection: How Much Risk Should You Tolerate in Your Portfolio? -- 4.2 Market Interest Rates and the Demand and Supply for Bonds -- A Demand and Supply Graph of the Bond Market -- Explaining Changes in Equilibrium Interest Rates -- Factors That Shift the Demand Curve for Bonds -- Factors That Shift the Supply Curve for Bonds -- Making the Connection: Why Are Bond Interest Rates So Low? -- 4.3 The Bond Market Model and Changes in Interest Rates -- Why Do Interest Rates Fall During Recessions? -- How Do Changes in Expected Inflation Affect Interest Rates? The Fisher Effect -- Solved Problem 4.3: Should You Worry About Falling Bond Prices When the Inflation Rate Is Low? -- 4.4 The Loanable Funds Model and the International Capital Market -- The Demand and Supply for Loanable Funds -- Equilibrium in the Bond Market from the Loanable Funds Perspective -- The International Capital Market and the Interest Rate -- Small Open Economy -- Large Open Economy -- Making the Connection: Did a Global "Saving Glut" Cause the U.S. Housing Boom? -- Answering the Key Question -- *Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercises -- Chapter 5 The Risk Structure and Term Structure of Interest Rates -- Searching for Yield -- Key Issue and Question -- 5.1 The Risk Structure of Interest Rates -- Default Risk. Making the Connection: Do Credit Rating Agencies Have a Conflict of Interest? -- Liquidity and Information Costs -- Tax Treatment -- Solved Problem 5.1: How Would a VAT Affect Interest Rates? -- Making the Connection: Should You Invest in Junk Bonds? -- 5.2 The Term Structure of Interest Rates -- Making the Connection: Negative Interest Rates on Treasury Bills? -- Explaining the Term Structure -- The Expectations Theory of the Term Structure -- Solved Problem 5.2A: Can You Make Easy Money from the Term Structure? -- The Segmented Markets Theory of the Term Structure -- The Liquidity Premium Theory -- Solved Problem 5.2B: Using the Liquidity Premium Theory to Calculate Expected Interest Rates -- Can the Term Structure Predict Recessions? -- Answering the Key Question -- Key Terms, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercises -- Chapter 6 The Stock Market, Information, and Financial Market Efficiency -- Are You Willing to Invest in the Stock Market? -- Key Issue and Question -- 6.1 Stocks and the Stock Market -- Common Stock Versus Preferred Stock -- How and Where Stocks Are Bought and Sold -- Measuring the Performance of the Stock Market -- Does the Performance of the Stock Market Matter to the Economy? -- Making the Connection: Should You Invest in the U.S. Stock Market? -- 6.2 How Stock Prices Are Determined -- Investing in Stock for One Year -- The Rate of Return on a One-Year Investment in a Stock -- Making the Connection: How Should the Government Tax Your Investment in Stocks? -- The Fundamental Value of Stock -- The Gordon Growth Model -- Solved Problem 6.2: Using the Gordon Growth Model to Evaluate GE Stock -- 6.3 Rational Expectations and Efficient Markets -- Adaptive Expectations Versus Rational Expectations -- The Efficient Markets Hypothesis -- Are Stock Prices Predictable? -- Efficient Markets and Investment Strategies. Making the Connection: What if You Invest in the Stock Market by Picking Stocks Randomly? -- Solved Problem 6.3: Should You Pay Attention to the Advice of Investment Analysts? -- 6.4 Actual Efficiency in Financial Markets -- Pricing Anomalies -- Mean Reversion -- Excess Volatility -- Making the Connection: Does the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 Disprove the Efficient Markets Theory? -- 6.5 Behavioral Finance -- Noise Trading and Bubbles -- How Great a Challenge Is Behavioral Finance to the Efficient Markets Hypothesis? -- Answering the Key Question -- *Key Terms and Problems -- Key Terms, Review Questions -- Problems and Applications, Data Exercises -- Chapter 7 Derivatives and Derivative Markets -- Using Financial Derivatives to Reduce Risk -- Key Issue and Question -- 7.1 Derivatives, Hedging, and Speculating -- 7.2 Forward Contracts -- 7.3 Futures Contracts -- Hedging with Commodity Futures -- Making the Connection: Should Farmers Be Afraid of the Dodd-Frank Act? -- Speculating with Commodity Futures -- Hedging and Speculating with Financial Futures -- Making the Connection: How to Follow the Futures Market: Reading the Financial Futures Listings -- Solved Problem 7.3: How Can You Hedge an Investment in Treasury Notes When Interest Rates Are Low? -- Trading in the Futures Market -- 7.4 Options -- Why Would You Buy or Sell an Option? -- Option Pricing and the Rise of the "Quants" -- Making the Connection: How to Follow the Options Market: Reading the Options Listings -- Solved Problem 7.4: Interpreting the Options Listings for Amazon.com -- Using Options to Manage Risk -- Making the Connection: How Much Volatility Should You Expect in the Stock Market? -- 7.5 Swaps -- Interest-Rate Swaps -- Currency Swaps and Credit Swaps -- Credit Default Swaps -- Making the Connection: Are Derivatives "Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction"?. Answering the Key Question. |
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