Summary banking and finance
Chapter 1: Why study money, banking and financial
markets?
1. Why study financial markets?
Financial market
Market in which funds transferred from people who have excess to people who have
shortage, with direct effect on personal wealth, behaviour businesses and
consumers, economy
Examples: bond and stock markets
Well-functioning key factor producing high economic growth
Poorly performing reason counties remain desperately poor
A. The bond market and interest rates
Security
Financial instrument
Claim on issuer’s future income or assets
Bond
Debt security
Promises periodical payments for a specific period of time
Interest rate
Cost of borrowing money or price paid for rental funds
Usually expressed as percentage
Impact on overall health of economy
Different interest rates tendency to move in unison ( gelijkmatig)
B. The stock market
Common stock
Typically just stock
Represents share of ownership in a corporation
Security that claims on earnings and assets of a corporation
Open to the public way to raise funds for corporations
Stock market
Market in which claims on earnings of corporations are traded
Typically just the market
Normally most widely followed financial market in countries that have one
,2. Why study financial institutions and banking?
Financial institutions make financial markets work
A. Structure of financial system
Financial market
Complex
Private sector
Banks
Insurance companies
Mutual funds Strongly regulated by governments
Finance companies
Investment banks
Financial intermediaries
Institutions that borrow money from people who saved and make loans for others
B. Financial crises
Financial crises
Major disruptions in financial markets
Sharp declines asset prices
Failures many firms
Typically followed by worst business cycle turndowns
Financial crises 2007
Worst financial crises US since Great Depression
Worst recession since WWII now: Great Recession
C. Banks and other financial institutions
Banks
Official institutions that accept deposits and make loans
Included under term are
Commercial banks
Savings and loans associations
Mutual savings banks
Credit unions
Intermediary average person interacts with most
Largest financial intermediaries
D. Financial innovation
Financial innovation
Development new financial products and services
Makes financial system more efficient
Dark side devastating financial crises
Examples:
ATM (automatic teller machine)
E-finance
,3. Why study money and monetary policy?
Money
Referred to as money supply
Anything generally accepted in payment for goods or services or repayment of debts
Linked to changes in economic variables important to health of economy
A. Money and business cycles
Aggregate output
Total production of goods and services
Unemployment rate
Percentage of the available force that is unemployed
Business cycles
Upward and downward movement of aggregate output produced in an economy
Affect all of us in immediate and important ways
Output rising easier to find good job
Output falling difficult to find a good job
Recessions
Periods of declining aggregate output
Money growth declines before recession
Money might be driving force behind fluctuations
Not all money declines are followed by recession
Monetary theory
Relates changes in quantity of money to changes in aggregate economic activity and
inflation
B. Money and inflation
Aggregate price level
Average price of goods and services in an economy
Simply the price
Inflation
Continual increase price level
Affect individuals, businesses and government
Generally regarded as important problem to be solved
Causes
Price level and money supply increase together continuing increase money
supply might be important factor causing continuing increase price level
Quantity of money
Monetary policy
Inflation rate
Rate of change of the price level
Usually measured as percentage change per year
Countries highest inflation rate highest money growth rates
, C. Conduct of monetary policy
Monetary policy
Management of money and interest rates
Central bank
Organisation responsible conduct of a nation’s monetary policy
Can affect quantity of money and interest rates in economy
Eurozone’s central bank ECB
United States’ central bank Federal Reserve System (Fed)
D. Fiscal and monetary policy
Fiscal policy
Involves decisions about government spending and taxation
Budget deficit
Excess government expenditures over tax revenues
Typically annually
Finance borrowing
Budget surplus
Tax revenues exceed government expenditures
Lower debt burden
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Measure of aggregate output
Explained in Economics
Bruto binnenlands product (BBP)
4. Why study international finance
Why study international finance?
Globalisation of financial market accelerated rapid
Financial markets integrated throughout the world
Banks became international
Foreign exchange market
Place where conversion of different currencies takes place
Foreign exchange rate
Price of one country’s currency in terms of another’s
Change in this rate direct effect on for example import
Weaker currency more expensive foreign goods
Weaker currency less import, increase consumption domestic goods
Strong currency export abroad more expensive
Strong currency less expensive foreign goods
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