Money & Banking

This is a comprehensive overview of the role that money and banking play in global economies. As a textbook, its primary emphasis is on explaining basic concepts, processes and relationships, ranging from money, interest rates and banks' money creation capabilities, to bank regulation, monetary policy and the workings of foreign exchange markets. The text's secondary emphasis is on providing information of particular relevance to bankers, such as the changing profile of banks' competitors, current legislative and regulatory developments, and sources of bank profitability in the 1990s. To provide a learning context, background and historical information is provided, when appropriate, to supplement the text.