The purpose of this text is to analyze the key financial markets and instruments that facilitate trade and investment activity on a global scale. It spans two key areas: first - the economic determinants of prices, price changes and price relationships in the major financial markets; second - the policy issues that result from private enterprises and public policymakers.

The purpose of this text is to analyze the key financial markets and instruments that facilitate trade and investment activity on a global scale. It spans two key areas: first - the economic determinants of prices, price changes and price relationships in the major financial markets; second - the policy issues that result from private enterprises and public policymakers.

This new European edition of the best-selling US text offers clear and practical coverage of financial markets and corporate strategy, across the current international context. Features of this edition include: increased mathematical rigour and new mathematical appendices; coverage of European institutions, markets and systems; and, discussion and comparision of international m...(展开全部)

Monetary policy has changed. Has your textbook? Ball's "Money, Banking, and Financial Markets" closes the gap between economic theory and the day-to-day behavior of banks and financial markets. Working from a macro framework based on the Fed's use of the interest rate as its major policy instrument, Ball presents the core concepts necessary to understand the problems affecting ...(展开全部)