Foundations of Financial Markets and Institutions

<ol> <li>1 Introduction </li> <li>2 Financial Institutions, Financial Intermediaries, and Asset Management Firms </li> <li>3 Depository Institutions: Activities and Characteristics </li> <li>4 The U.S. Federal Reserve and the Creation of Money </li> <li>5 Monetary Policy in the United States </li> <li>6 Insurance Companies </li> <li>7 Investment Companies and Exchange-Traded Funds </li> <li>8 Pension Funds </li> <li>9 Properties and Pricing of Financial Assets </li> <li>10 The Level and Structure of Interest Rates </li> <li>11 The Term Structure of Interest Rates </li> <li>12 Risk/Return and Asset Pricing Models </li> <li>13 Primary Markets and the Underwriting of Securities </li> <li>14 Secondary Markets </li> <li>15 Treasury and Agency Securities Markets </li> <li>16 Municipal Securities Markets </li> <li>17 Markets for Common Stock: The Basic Characteristics </li> <li>18 Markets for Common Stock: Structure and Organization </li> <li>19 Markets for Corporate Senior Instruments: I </li> <li>20 Markets for Corporate Senior Instruments: II </li> <li>21 The Markets for Bank Obligations </li> <li>22 The Residential Mortgage Market </li> <li>23 Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Market </li> <li>24 Market for Commercial Mortgage Loans and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities </li> <li>25 Market for Asset-Backed Securities </li> <li>26 Financial Futures Markets </li> <li>27 Options Markets </li> <li>28 Pricing of Futures and Options Contracts </li> <li>29 OTC Interest Rate Derivatives: Forward Rate Agreements, Swaps, Caps, and Floors </li> <li>30 Market for Credit Risk Transfer Vehicles: Credit Derivatives and Collateralized Debt Obligations </li> <li>31 The Market for Foreign Exchange and Risk Control Instruments </li> </ol>