1.1 Why Study Financial Markets?
金融市场是指资金从可用资金过剩的人和公司转移到需要资金的人和公司的市场。
The Bond Market and Interest Rates
1.2 Why Study Financial Institutions and Banking?
金融中介机构:向储蓄的人借资金,进而向需要资金的人贷款的机构。
– Banks: accept deposits and make loans .
– Other financial institutions: insurance companies, finance companies, pension funds, mutual funds and investment companies.
其他金融机构:保险公司、金融公司、养老基金、共同基金和投资公司。
– Can be an important force for good by making the financial system more efficient
– E-finance: the ability to deliver financial services electronically
declines in asset prices and the failures of many financial and nonfinancial firms.
金融危机:金融市场的重大混乱,其特征是资产价格的急剧下跌,以及许多金融和非金融公司的倒闭。
1.3 Why Study Money and Monetary Policy?
有证据表明,货币,被定义为任何被普遍接受为支付商品或服务或偿还债务的任何东西,在产生商业周期中起着重要的作用。
• Recessions (unemployment) and expansions affect all of us.
• Monetary theory ties changes in the money supply to changes in aggregate economic activity and the price level.
货币理论将货币供应的变化与总体经济活动和价格水平的变化联系起来。
Money, Business Cycles, and Inflation
• A continual rise in the price level (inflation) affects all economic players.
价格水平的持续上升(通货膨胀)影响所有经济参与者。
• Data show a connection between the money supply and the price level.
• Prior to 1980, the rate of money growth and the interest rate on long-term Treasury bonds were closely tied .
在1980年之前,货币增长率与长期国债利率密切相关。
• Since then, the relationship is less clear, but the rate of money growth is still an important determinant of interest rates.
从那时起,关系不太清楚,但货币增长率仍然是利率的一个重要决定因素。
Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy
– Conducted in the United States by the Federal Reserve System (Fed) .
• Fiscal policy deals with government spending and taxation.
– Any deficit must be financed by borrowing.
The Foreign Exchange Market
• The foreign exchange rate is the price of one currency in terms of another currency.
• The foreign exchange market determines the foreign exchange rate.
1.4 Why Study International Finance
• Financial markets have become increasingly integrated throughout the world.
• The international financial system has tremendous impact on domestic economies:
– How a country’s choice of exchange rate policy affect its monetary policy?
– How capital controls impact domestic financial systems and therefore the performance of the economy?
资本控制如何影响国内金融体系,从而影响经济的表现?
– Which should be the role of international financial institutions like the IMF?
The International Financial System
• Financial markets have become increasingly integrated throughout the world.
• The international financial system has tremendous impact on domestic economies:
– How a country’s choice of exchange rate policy affect its monetary policy?
– How capital controls impact domestic financial systems and therefore the perfor
– Which should be the role of international financial institutions like the IMF?
像国际货币基金组织这样的国际金融机构应该扮演什么样的角色?
1.5 Money, Banking, and Financial Markets and Your Career
Understanding monetary policy may help you predict when interest rates will rise or fall, help you make decisions about whether it is better to borrow now or to wait until later, know how banks and other financial institutions are managed which may help you get a better deal when you need to borrow from them and may enable you to make better investment decisions, whether for yourself or for the company you work for.
了解货币政策可以帮助你预测利率何时上升或下降,帮助你决定是现在借钱还是等到以后再借,知道银行和其他金融机构是如何管理的,这可能有助于你在需要从他们那里借钱时得到更好的交易,并可能使你做出更好的投资决策,无论是为你自己还是为你工作的公司。
1.6 How We Will Study Money, Banking, and Financial Markets
• A simplified approach to the demand for assets
• The concept of equilibrium
• Basic supply and demand to explain behavior in financial markets
• An approach to financial structure based on transaction costs and asymmetric information
• Aggregate supply and demand analysis
Ch2 An Overview of the Financial System
2.1 Financial System -- functions
2.2 Financial System -- structure
• Debt and Equity Markets 债务市场和股权市场
• Primary and Secondary Markets 一级市场和二级市场
– Investment Banks underwrite securities
– Brokers and dealers work in secondary markets
• Exchanges and Over-the-Counter (OTC) Markets 交易所和场外交易市场
– Exchanges: NYSE, Chicago Board of Trade
– OTC Markets: Foreign exchange, Federal funds.
• Money and Capital Markets 货币市场和资本市场
– Money markets deal in short-term debt instruments
– Capital markets deal in longer-term debt and equity instruments
2.3 Financial System -- instruments
• Money market instrument:
United States Treasury Bills 美国国库券
Negotiable Certificate of Deposit 可转让银行定期存单
Repurchase Agreements 回购协议(一种短期融资工具)
• Capital market instrument:
U.S. Government Securities 美国政府证券
U.S. Government Agency Securities 美国政府机构证券
State and Local Government Bonds 州和地方政府债券
Consumer and bank Commercial Loans消费贷款和银行商业贷款
2.4 Financial System -- internationalization
sold in a foreign country and denominated in that country’s currency
bond denominated in a currency other than that of the country in which it is sold
foreign currencies deposited in banks outside the home country
– Eurodollars: U.S. dollars deposited in foreign banks outside the U.S. or in foreign branches of U.S. banks
欧洲美元:存放在美国以外的外国银行或美国银行的外国分支机构的美元
• World Stock Markets世界股票市场
2.5 Financial System -- types of intermediaries
2.6 Financial System -- Function of Financial Intermediaries: Indirect Finance
• Lower transaction costs 降低交易成本
– Economies of scale 规模经济
– Liquidity services 流动性服务
• Reduce the exposure of investors to risk 减少投资者的风险敞口
– Risk Sharing (Asset Transformation) 风险分担(资产转换)
• Deal with asymmetric information problems 处理信息不对称问题
– (before the transaction)
– (after the transaction)
(交易后)道德风险:确保借款人不会从事妨碍其偿还贷款的活动。
2.7 Financial System -- function of Financial Markets
• Perform the essential function of channeling funds from economic players that have saved surplus funds to those that have a shortage of funds.
发挥把资金从储蓄富余的经济主体向资金短缺的经济主体转移的重要作用。
• Direct finance: borrowers borrow funds directly from lenders in financial markets by selling them securities.
直接融资:借款人在金融市场上通过向出借人出售证券直接向出借人借款。
• Promotes economic efficiency by producing an efficient allocation of capital, which increases
• Directly improve the well-being of consumers by allowing them to time purchases better.
通过让消费者更好地选择购买时间,直接改善消费者的福祉。
2.8 Financial System -- regulation
• Why do financial services scandals happen?
• To ensure the soundness of financial intermediaries:
– Restrictions on entry (chartering process).
– Disclosure of information.
– Restrictions on Assets and Activities (control holding of risky assets).
– Deposit Insurance (avoid bank runs).
– Limits on Competition (mostly in the past):
• Restrictions on Interest Rates 利率限制
• The cost of and problems with financial regulation
Ch8 An Economic Analysis of Financial Structure
8.1 Basic Facts About Financial Structure Throughout the World
8.3 Asymmetric Information: Adverse Selection And Moral Hazard