 Money and Capital Markets: Financial Institutions and Instruments in a Global Marketplace, 8/e Peter Rose,
Texas A & M University
Financial Assets, Money, Financial Transactions and Financial Institutions
Chapter Objectives
| You will see the most important channels through which funds flow from lenders
to borrowers and back again within the global financial system of money and
capital markets. |
 | | | | You will discover the nature and characteristics of financial assets—how they are
created and destroyed by decision makers within the financial system. |
| | | | You will explore the critical roles played by money within the financial system and
the linkages between the volume and growth of money and inflation in the prices
of goods and services. |
| | | | You will examine the important jobs carried out by financial intermediaries and
other financial institutions in lending and borrowing funds and in creating and
destroying financial assets within the global system of markets. |
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education