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1、Chapter 2 Overview of the Financial System Function of Financial Markets Structure of Financial Markets Debt and Equity Markets Primary and Secondary Markets Exchanges and Over-the-Counter Markets Money and Capital Markets Internationalization of Financial Markets International Bond Market,Eurobonds

2、 and Eurocurrencies World Stock Markets The Wall Street Journal:Following the News:Foreign Stock Market Indexes Function of Financial Intermediaries:Indirect Finance Global Box:The Importance of Financial Intermediaries To Securities Markets:An International Comparison Transactions Costs Risk Sharin

3、g Asymmetric Information:Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard Types of Financial Intermediaries Depository Institutions Contractual Savings Institutions Investment Intermediaries Regulation of the Financial System Increasing Information Available to Investors Ensuring the Soundness of Financial Interm

4、ediaries Improving Control of Monetary Policy Financial Regulation Abroad Chapter 2 is an introductory chapter that contains the background information on the structure and operation of financial markets that is needed in later chapters of the book.This chapter allows the instructor to branch out to

5、 various choices of later chapters,thus allowing different degrees of coverage of financial markets and institutions.6 Mishkin/Eakins Financial Markets and Institutions,Sixth Edition The most important point to transmit to the student is that financial markets and financial intermediaries are crucia

6、l to a well-functioning economy because they channel funds from those who do not have a productive use for them to those who do.Some instructors will want to teach this chapter in detail,and those who focus on international issues will want to spend some time on the section“Internationalization of F

7、inancial Markets.”However,those who slant their course to public policy issues may want to give this chapter a more cursory treatment.No matter how much class time is devoted to this chapter,I have found that it is a good reference chapter for students.You might want to tell them that if in later ch

8、apters they do not recall what particular financial intermediaries do and who regulates them,they can refer back to this chapter,especially to tables,such as Tables 1 and 3.1.The share of Microsoft stock is an asset for its owner because it entitles the owner to a share of the earnings and assets of

9、 Microsoft.The share is a liability for Microsoft because it is a claim on its earnings and assets by the owner of the share.2.Yes,I should take out the loan,because I will be better off as a result of doing so.My interest payment will be$4,500(90%of$5,000),but as a result,I will earn an additional$

10、10,000,so I will be ahead of the game by$5,500.Since Larrys loan-sharking business can make some people better off,as in this example,loan sharking may have social benefits.(One argument against legalizing loan sharking,however,is that it is frequently a violent activity.)3.Yes,because the absence o

11、f financial markets means that funds cannot be channeled to people who have the most productive use for them.Entrepreneurs then cannot acquire funds to set up businesses that would help the economy grow rapidly.4.The principal debt instruments used were foreign bonds which were sold in Britain and d

12、enominated in pounds.The British gained because they were able to earn higher interest rates as a result of lending to Americans,while the Americans gained because they now had access to capital to start up profitable businesses such as railroads.5.This statement is false.Prices in secondary markets

13、 determine the prices that firms issuing securities receive in primary markets.In addition,secondary markets make securities more liquid and thus easier to sell in the primary markets.Therefore,secondary markets are,if anything,more important than primary markets.6.You would rather hold bonds,becaus

14、e bondholders are paid off before equity holders,who are the residual claimants.7.Because you know your family member better than a stranger,you know more about the borrowers honesty,propensity for risk taking,and other traits.There is less asymmetric information than with a stranger and less likeli

15、hood of an adverse selection problem,with the result that you are more likely to lend to the family member.9.Loan sharks can threaten their borrowers with bodily harm if borrowers take actions that might jeopardize paying off the loan.Hence borrowers from a loan shark are less likely to engage in mo

16、ral hazard.10.They might not work hard enough while you are not looking or may steal or commit fraud.Chapter 2 Overview of the Financial System 7 11.Yes,because even if you know that a borrower is taking actions that might jeopardize paying off the loan,you must still stop the borrower from doing so

17、.Because that may be costly,you may not spend the time and effort to reduce moral hazard,and so moral hazard remains a problem.12.True.If there are no information or transactions costs,people could make loans to each other at no cost and would thus have no need for financial intermediaries.13.Becaus

18、e the costs of making the loan to your neighbor are high(legal fees,fees for a credit check,and so on),you will probably not be able to earn 5%on the loan after your expenses even though it has a 10%interest rate.You are better off depositing your savings with a financial intermediary and earning 5%

19、interest.In addition,you are likely to bear less risk by depositing your savings at the bank rather than lending them to your neighbor.14.Increased discussion of foreign financial markets in the U.S.press and the growth in markets for international financial instruments such as Eurodollars and Eurobonds.