- Subjects
- Published
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[Chantilly, VA] :
Teaching Co
[2012]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Edition
- [PDF workbook version]
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Business & economics ; Subtopic: Business"--Cover.
"Course no. 5630"--Disc labels.
36 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format. - Physical Description
- 18 compact discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
- ISBN
- 9781490650616
- Disc 1. The importance of money
- Money as a social contract
- Disc 2. How is money created?
- Monetary history of the United States
- Disc 3. Local currencies and nonstandard banks
- How inflation erodes the value of money
- Disc 4. Hyperinflation is the repudiation of money
- Saving-the source of funds for investment
- Disc 5. The real rate of interest
- Financial intermediaries
- DIsc 6. Commercial banks
- Central banks
- Disc 7. Present value
- Probability, expected value, and uncertainty
- Disc 8. Risk and risk aversion
- An introduction to bond markets
- Disc 9. Bond prices and yields
- How economic forces affect interest rates
- Disc 10. Why interest rates move together
- The term structure of interest rates
- Disc 11. Introduction to the stock market
- Stock price fundamentals
- Disc 12. Stock market bubbles and irrational exuberance
- Derivative securities
- Dsic 13. Asymmetric information
- Regulation of financial firms
- Disc 14. Subprime mortgage crisis and reregulation
- Interest rate policy at the Fed and ECB
- Disc 15. The objectives of monetary policy
- Should central banks follow a policy rule?
- Disc 16. Extraordinary tools for extraordinary times
- Central bank independence
- Disc 17. The foreign exchange value of the dollar
- Exchange rates and international banking
- Disc 18. Monetary policy coordination
- Challenges for the future.