Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why study money, banking, and financial markets? -- An overview of the financial system -- What is money? -- Financial markets -- Understanding interest rates -- The behavior of interest rates -- The risk and term structure of interest rates -- The stock market, the theory of rational expectations, and the efficient market hypothesis -- Financial institutions -- An economic analysis of financial structure -- Financial crises -- Banking and the management of financial institutions -- Economic analysis of financial regulation -- Banking industry : structure and competition -- Central banking and the conduct of monetary policy -- Central banks and the federal reserve system -- The money supply process -- The tools of monetary policy -- The conduct of monetary policy : strategy and tactics -- International finance and monetary policy -- The foreign exchange market -- The international financial system -- Monetary theory -- Quantity theory, inflation, and the demand for money -- The IS curve -- The monetary policy and aggregate demand curves -- Aggregate demand and supply analysis -- Monetary policy theory -- The role of expectations in monetary policy -- Transmission mechanisms of monetary policy -- Web chapter: the ISLM model.