SSC 363 Money, Banking and Finance

Content

This is a lecture course that is intended to help you understand the role that financial markets play in the business environment that you will face in the future. It also provides an understanding of the underlying institutions that either help financial markets work well or that interfere with the efficient performance of these markets. This course develops a series of applications of principles from finance and economics that explore the connection between financial markets and the economy. In addition, it will focus on many public policy issues and examine how the most important players in financial markets, central banks, operate and how monetary policy is conducted. The course will have a strong international orientation by examining monetary policy in many countries and possible reforms of the international financial system.

Instructor

Dr. Alexei Karas

Track

Economics

Period

Spring / 2009

Course Material

• Mishkin, F.S. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, latest edition

Additional Prerequisites

Any 200-level course in Economics