Unit 1 Money 1
Text-A Measuring Money 12
Text-B Motives for Holding Money 15
Unit 2 Interest Rates The Level and Structure of Interest Rates 21
Text-A The Interest Rate 32
Text-B The Role of the Federal Reserve in the Determination of Interest Rates 37
Unit 3 Banking Firms 42
Text-A Sound Banking Practices 55
Text-B The Banking System and Recent Monetary Reform in China 59
Unit 4 Financial Institutions 64
Nonbank Financial Institutions 75
Text-A Insurance Management 75
Text-B Organized Exchanges in the USA 78
Unit 5 Financial Derivatives 82
Different Types of Financial Derivatives 92
Text-A New Futures Contracts and Trading Arrangements 92
Text-B Warrants 95
Unit 6 Financial System Financial Markets 99
Text-A Financial Intermediaries 110
Text-B Government Regulation of Financial Markets 113
Unit 7 Inflation 117
Text-A The Consequences of Inflation 127
Text-B Measuring Inflation 132
Unit 8 Monetary Policy Tools of Monetary Policy 137
Text-A Goals of Monetary Policy 148
Text-B Monetary versus Fiscal Policies 151
Unit 9 Foreign Exchang 156
Text-A The Relation between the Spot Exchange and the Forward Exchange Rate 166
Text-B Foreign Exchange Futures 170
Unit 10 International Financial System Evolution of the International Financial System 175
Text-A Toward a New International Monetary System 186
Text-B Balance of Payments 190
Appendix Ⅰ Reference Translation of the Main Texts 195
Appendix Ⅱ Key to the Exercises 224
Appendix Ⅲ Tapescripts 239
Appendix Ⅳ Bibliography 247
Appendix Ⅴ Glossary 248