TY - BOOK AU - Pilbeam,Keith TI - Finance and financial markets SN - 9781403948359 (pbk.) : AV - HG173 .P55 2005 U1 - 332 PIL PY - 2005/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Finance KW - Financial instruments KW - Financial institutions KW - Finance and Accounting KW - ukslc KW - thema N1 - Previous ed.: Basingstoke: Macmillan Business, 1998; Includes bibliographical references (p. 468-473) and index; Preface; Acknowledgements; The World of Finance; Financial Intermediation and Financial Markets; Financial Institutions; Monetary Policy and Interest Rate Determination; The Domestic and International Money Markets; The Domestic and International Bond Market; Portfolio Analysis: Risk and Return in Financial Markets; The Capital Asset Pricing Model; Stockmarkets and Equities; The Efficiency of Financial Markets; The Foreign Exchange Market; Theories of Exchange Rate Determination; Financial Futures; Options; The Pricing of Options; Swap Markets; The Regulation of Financial Services N2 - Pilbeam presents a comprehensive yet relatively non-technical introduction to modern day financial institutions, markets and instruments, covering such topics as the role of financial intermediaries and interest rate determination ER -