- Subjects
- Published
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[Chantilly, Va.] :
Teaching Company
[2012]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Authors
- ,
- Main Author
- Corporate Authors
- ,
- Edition
- [PDF workbook version]
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Business & economics ; Subtopic: Business"--Cover.
"Course no. 5630"--Disc labels.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format.
36 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Course no. 5630. - Physical Description
- 6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
- Format
- DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.
- ISBN
- 9781490654522
- Disc 1. The importance of money
- Money as a social contract
- How is money created?
- Monetary history of the United States
- Local currencies and nonstandard banks
- How inflation erodes the value of money
- Disc 2. Hyperinflation is the repudiation of money
- Saving-the source of funds
- The real rate of interest
- Financial intermediaries
- Commercial banks
- Central banks
- Disc 3. Present value
- Probability, expected value, and uncertainty
- Risk and risk aversion
- An introduction to bond markets
- Bond prices and yields
- How economic forces affect interest rates
- Disc 4. Why interest rates move together
- The term structure of interest rates
- Introduction to the stock market
- Stock price fundamentals
- Stock market bubbles and irrational exuberance
- Derivative securities
- Disc 5. Asymmetric information
- Regulation of financial firms
- Subprime mortgage crisis and reregulation
- Interest rate policy at the Fed and ECB
- The objectives of monetary policy
- Should Central Banks follow a policy rule?
- Disc 6. Extraordinary tools for extraordinary times
- Central bank independence
- The foreign exchange value of the dollar
- Exchange rates and international banking
- Monetary policy coordination
- Challenges for the future.