Modern Financial Macroeconomics: Panics, Crashes, and Crises / Edition 1

by Todd A. Knoop

Overview

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.

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• 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405161817
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/29/2008
Pages:	290
Sales rank:	773,737
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

List of Case Studies.

Preface.

Introduction.

Part I: An Introduction to Finance and Macroeconomics:.

1. The Basics of Financial Markets and Financial Institutions.

2. A Brief History of Financial Development.

Part II: Macroeconomic Theory and the Role of Finance:.

3. Business Cycles and Early Macroeconomic Theories of Finance.

4. Keynesian, Monetarist, and Neoclassical Theories.

5. New Institutional Theories of Finance: Models of Risk and the Costs of Credit Intermediation.

6. New Institutional Theories of Finance: Models of Credit Rationing.

Part III: Financial Volatility and Economic [In]Stability:.

7. The Role of Financial Systems in Monetary and Stabilization Policy.

8. Banking Crises and Asset Bubbles.

Part IV: International Finance and Financial Crises:.

9. Capital Flight and the Causes of International Financial Crises.

10. International Financial Crises: Policies and Prevention.

Part V: Conclusions:.

11. What We have Learned, What We Still Need to Learn about Financial Macroeconomics.

Bibliography.

Index

Editorial Reviews

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