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National Debt and who holds it
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Stocks vs. Bonds
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Financial Institutions vs. Financial Markets
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What is money?
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What money is not
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Functions of money
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Disadvantages of barter
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Full-bodied money
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Fiat money
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Definitive money
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Representative full-bodied money
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Evolution of money
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Measures of money ( including amounts)
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Liquidity, Risk & Yield
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Primary vs. Secondary Markets
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Organized vs. Over the Counter Markets
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Money vs. Capital markets
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Risk sharing, liquidity, and information
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Why study money and money flows?
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Financial regulation
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Treasury bills
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Discounting
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Treasury Notes and Bonds
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Coupon Rates
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Callable Bonds
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Calculate discount rate of Treasury Bill
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Calculate Price of Treasury Bill
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Calculate Yield to Maturity
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Price vs. Yield
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Savings Bonds
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Three ways of issuing bonds & notes
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Commercial Paper
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Bankers Acceptance
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Federal Funds
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Negotiable CDs
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Eurodollars
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Mortgage backed securities
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Financial Intermediaries
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Financial Instruments
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Transactions Costs
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Information and Monitoring Costs
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Asymmetric Information
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Moral Hazard
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Adverse Selection
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Gresham's Law
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Principal Agent Problem
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What functions do financial intermediaries serve?
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Commercial Banks
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Thrifts
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Insurance Companies
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Types of life insurance companies
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Term & whole life
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Finance Companies
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Money Market Mutual Funds
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Contractual savings, depository, and Investment
institutions
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401k's, 403b's, 457b's
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Glass-Steagall
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Gramm, Leach, Bliley Financial Services Act
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Prime rate
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Real interest rate
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Significance of Interest Rates
- Present Value
- Loanable Funds Model
- Slope of Curves
- Why Supply may or may not be Elastic
- Shifters
- Uses
- Bond Supply and Demand
- Determinants of Nominal Interest Rates
- Fisher Hypothesis
- Various effects of Fed Policy on Interest Rates
- Ricardian Equivalence
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