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Every concept opens with a definition, intuition, formulas, a worked example, and a quiz.
Interest Rates & Term Structure
- Present Value & the Time Value of Money
- Bond Pricing & Yield to Maturity
- Interest-Rate Risk & Duration
- Real vs Nominal Rates: the Fisher Equation
- What Moves Interest Rates
- The Risk Structure of Interest Rates
- The Term Structure & the Yield Curve
- Theories of the Term Structure
- Four Effects of Money Growth on Interest Rates
- Bond Credit Ratings: Investment Grade versus Junk
- Case Study: The March 2020 Dash for Cash
Central Banking & Monetary Policy
- The Central Bank
- The Money Supply Process and Multiplier
- Bank Reserves: Required, Excess, Borrowed
- Open Market Operations
- Tools of Monetary Policy
- Policy Goals and Inflation Targeting
- The Taylor Rule
- Credibility and Time Inconsistency
- Central Bank Communication and Forward Guidance
- Quantitative Easing and Unconventional Policy
- Money Demand and the Quantity Theory
- How Monetary Policy Reaches the Economy
- The Market for Reserves and the Policy Rate
- The Liquidity Trap and the Zero Lower Bound
- Demand-Pull versus Cost-Push Inflation
- Disinflation and the Sacrifice Ratio
- Deflation, Debt-Deflation, and Japan’s Lost Decades
- Case Study: The Volcker Disinflation
- Case Study: The Great Inflation of the 1970s
Stock Market & Efficiency
Money, Crypto & CBDCs
Banking & Financial Regulation
- The Bank Balance Sheet
- Bank Capital and Leverage
- Bank Runs and Deposit Insurance
- Why Regulate Banks?
- Moral Hazard and Too Big To Fail
- Shadow Banking and Securitization
- Basel III: Capital and Liquidity Rules
- How the Financial System Moves Funds
- Asymmetric Information: Why Intermediaries Exist
- Bank Management: Liquidity, Credit, and Interest-Rate Risk
- Anatomy of a Financial Crisis
- Lender of Last Resort
- Case Study: The 2008 Global Financial Crisis