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Capital Markets and Institutions: A Global View

ISBN: 978-0-471-13049-9

January 1997

800 pages

Description

Intended for Junior/Senior/MBA course in Financial Markets, Capital Markets and Institutions. Using an international focus, this text integrates the financial markets with the activities of financial intermediaries. This approach enables students to understand the role of financial intermediaries in the development of financial markets. Throughout the text, the emphasis is on "how things are done on the street." The origins, major participants, pricing and settlements and typical transactions for all financial markets are also included.

About the Author

Linda Allen is Professor of Finance at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, City University of New York, and Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. She is also the author of Capital Markets and Institutions: A Global View and co-author of Credit Risk Measurement: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms,. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economics and Business, and Multinational Finance Journal, and has published extensively in top academic journals in finance and economics.

Features
  • Clear explanations with recent applications of quantitative models. The approach emphasizes "how things are done on the street."
  • International focus integrated throughout text.
  • Entire chapter dedicated to international central banks including Bundesbank, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Japan.
  • Unique chapter on settlements highlights the importance of settlement risk in global financial transactions.
  • "Border Crossings" sections before each part of the text look backwards and forwards, letting students apply what they have learned to future chapters.