Todd A. Knoop

MODERN FINANCIAL MACROECONOMIC

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This one-of-a-kind text examines the role that financial markets and institutions play in modern macroeconomics. Traditional economics downplays the function of financial systems in macroeconomic thought.

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Modern Financial Macroeconomics takes a non-technical approach in examining the role that financial markets and institutions play in shaping outcomes in the modern macro economy.
Reviews historical and contemporary macroeconomic theory
Examines governmental influence on moderating (or exacerbating) economic fluctuations
Discusses both empirical and theoretical links between financial systems and economic performance, as well as case studies detailing the role of finance in specific business cycle episodes

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781405161800
• ISBN-10: 1405161809
• Artikelnr.: 22951957

Autorenporträt

Todd A. Knoop is Associate Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics and Business department at Cornell College. He is author of Recessions and Depressions: Understanding Business Cycles (2004). He earned his PhD. in Economics from Purdue University.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION I: AN INTRODUCTION TO FINANCE AND ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS. Chapter 1:
The Basics of Financial Markets and Financial Institutions. Chapter 2: A
Brief History of the Evolution of Finance. Chapter 3: The Facts of Business
Cycles. SECTION II: MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND THE ROLE OF FINANCE. Chapter
4: Early Theories of Finance and Economic Activity. Chapter 5: Keynesian,
Monetarist, and Neoclassical Theories. Chapter 6: New Institutional
Theories of Finance: Models of Risk and the Costs of Financing. Chapter 7:
New Institutional Theories of Finance: Models of Credit Rationing. SECTION
III: FINANCIAL VOLATILITY AND ECONOMIC [IN]STABILITY. Chapter 8: The Role
of Financial Systems in Monetary and Stabilization policy. Chapter 9:
Banking Crises and Asset Bubbles. SECTION IV: INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND
FINANCIAL CRISES. Chapter 10: Twin Crises and Depressions. Chapter 11:
International Capital Flows and Crises. SECTION V: CONCLUSIONS. Chapter 12:
Is Understanding Finance the Key to Understanding Modern Economics?