Description

Make the link between theory and real-world easier for students with the most up-to-date Money and Banking text on the market today!

Hubbard/O'Brien's textbook presents Money, Banking, and the Financial System in the context of contemporary events, policy, and business with an integrated explanation of today’s financial crisis. Reviewers tell us that Hubbard/O'Brien helps make the link between theory and real-world easier for students!

The second edition retains the modern approach of the first edition, while incorporating several changes to address feedback from instructors and students and also to reflect the authors’ own classroom experiences.

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Features

Hubbard and O'Brien provide extensive analysis of the financial events of the past few years. These events are sufficiently important to be incorporated into the body of the text rather than just added as boxed-off features. In particular, they stress the lesson policymakers recently learned the hard way: What happens in the ever-expanding part of the financial system that does not involve commercial banks is of vital importance to the entire economy.

This exciting text presents students with the underlying economic explanations of why the financial system is organized as it is and how the financial system is connected to the broader economy. Due to the overwhelming success of their principles of economics textbook, Hubbard and O'Brien have employed a similar approach in this textbook: They provide students with a framework that allows them to apply the theory that they learn in the classroom to the practice of the real world.

By learning this framework, students will understand not just the 2007—2009 financial crisis and other past events but also developments in the financial system during the years to come. To achieve this goal, they have built four advantages into this text:

1. A framework for understanding, evaluating, and predicting

2. A modern approach

3. Integration of international topics

4. A focus on the Federal Reserve

Special Features:

Seamless Integration of Contemporary Events. Each chapter-opening case provides a real-world context for learning that sparks students’ interest in money and banking, and helps to unify the chapter material.
Key Issue-and-Question Approach. Each chapter opens and closes with a Key Issue-and-Question that helps students put the chapter’s contents in context.
Making the Connection. Each chapter includes two to four Making the Connection features that present real-world reinforcement of key concepts. This feature helps students learn how to interpret the news and current events they read online and in newspapers.
Solved Problem. Two or three worked-out problems are included in each chapter of this text so students get a chance to practice the application of the concepts in action. This feature brings students through the problems that may see in the end-of-chapter exercises and other assessments.
An Inside Look. An Inside Look is a two-page feature that shows students how to apply the concepts from the chapter to the analysis of a news article. The article and analysis links back to the chapter-opening case.
Review Questions and Problems and Applications—Grouped by Learning Objective to Improve Assessment. All the end-of-chapter material—Summary, Review Questions, and Problems and Applications—is grouped under learning objectives. The goals of this organization are to make it easier for instructors to assign problems based on learning objectives, both in the book and in MyEconLab, and to help students efficiently review material that they find difficult.

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New to this Edition

Summary of Key Changes

• Replaced 7 chapter-opening cases and updated retained cases.
• Added 16 new Making the Connection features, including several that appeal to students’ personal lives and decisions
• Added more than 40 new real-time data exercises that students can complete on MyEconLab.
• Added 2 new Solved Problems features, and updated retained Solved Problems. Some Solved Problems also involve subjects that appeal to students’ personal lives and decisions.
• Replaced or updated approximately one-half of the questions and problems at the end of each chapter.
• Updated graphs and tables with the latest available data.

New Chapter-Opening Cases
Each chapter-opening case provides a real-world context for learning, sparks students’ interest in money and banking, and helps to unify the chapter. The second edition includes the following new chapter-opening cases:

• “Will Investors Lose Their Shirts in the Market for Treasury Bonds?” (Chapter 3, “Interest Rates and Rates of Return”)
• “Are There Any Safe Investments?” (Chapter 4, “Determining Interest Rates”)
• “Searching for Yield” (Chapter 5, “The Risk Structure and Term Structure of Interest Rates”)
• “Using Financial Derivatives to Reduce Risk” (Chapter 7, “Derivatives and Derivative Markets”)
• “Is Ben Bernanke Responsible for Japanese Firms Moving to the United States?” (Chapter 8, “The Market for Foreign Exchange”)
• “Should You Crowd-Fund Your Startup?” (Chapter 9, “Transactions Costs, Asymmetric Information, and the Structure of the Financial System”)
• “To Buy a House, You Need a Loan” (Chapter 10, “The Economics of Banking”)

New Making the Connection Features and Supporting Exercises at the End of Each Chapter
Each chapter includes two or more Making the Connection features that provide real-world reinforcement of key concepts. Several of these Making the Connections cover topics that apply directly to the personal lives and decisions that students make and include the subtitle of In Your Interest.

• “Microlending Aids U.S. Small Businesses” (Chapter 1, “Introducing Money and the Financial System”)
• “What Do People Do with Their Savings?” (Chapter 1, “Introducing Money and the Financial System”)
• “In Your Interest: Interest Rates and Student Loans” (Chapter 3, “Interest Rates and Rates of Return”)
• “Why Are Bond Interest Rates So Low?” (Chapter 4, “Determining Interest Rates”)
• “In Your Interest: Should You Invest in Junk Bonds?” (Chapter 5, “The Risk Structure and Term Structure of Interest Rates”)
• “In Your Interest: Should You Invest in Emerging Markets?” (Chapter 8, “The Market for Foreign Exchange”)
• “In Your Interest: Is It Safe to Invest Through Crowd-funding?” (Chapter 9, “Transactions Costs, Asymmetric Information, and the Structure of the Financial System”)
• “In Your Interest: Corporations Are Issuing More Bonds; Should You Buy Them?” (Chapter 9, “Transactions Costs, Asymmetric Information, and the Structure of the Financial System”)
• “In Your Interest: Your Bank’s Message to You: ‘Please Go Away!’” (Chapter 10, “The Economics of Banking”)
• In Your Interest: “Is Your Neighborhood ATM About to Disappear?”
  (Chapter 10, “The Economics of Banking”)
• “In Your Interest: Would You Invest in a Hed

Table of Contents

• PART I. FOUNDATIONS
• 1. Introducing Money and the Financial System
• 2. Money and the Payments System
• 3. Interest Rates and Rates of Return
• 4. Determining Interest Rates
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• PART II. FINANCIAL MARKETS
• 5. The Risk Structure and Term Structure of Interest Rates
• 6. The Stock Market, Information, and Financial Market Efficiency
• 7. Derivatives and Derivative Markets
• 8. The Market for Foreign Exchange
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• PART III. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
• 9. Transactions Costs, Asymmetric Information, and the Structure of the Financial System
• 10. The Economics of Banking
• 11. Investment Banks, Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, and the Shadow Banking System
• 12. Financial Crises and Financial Regulation
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• PART IV. MONETARY POLICY
• 13. The Federal Reserve and Central Banking
• 14. The Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet and the Money Supply Process
• 15. Monetary Policy
• 16. The International Financial System and Monetary Policy
• PART V. THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND THE MACROECONOMY
• 17. Monetary Theory I: The Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Model
• 18. Monetary Theory II: The IS—MP Model