Studies the flow of funds in the short-term and long-term financial markets. Sources and uses of funds, interest rate theory, the role of the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Treasury are studied to provide the…
14-1. What are financial markets? What function do they perform? How would an economy be worse off without them?…
This work of ECO 316 Week 1 Chapter 1 Introducing Money and the Financial System consists of:…
14.1 What are financial markets? What function do they perform? How would an economy be worse off without them?…
Finance concepts and principles are divided into three sections with the first group of principles dealing with competition in an economic environment. The second group deals with ways of creating value and economic efficiency and the third group of principles deals with observing financial transactions. I will briefly define each principle and then explain how they relate to the given scenario (Emery, D.R., Finnerty, J.D., and Stowe, J.D., 2007).…
Part 2 of this book focuses on financial markets, markets in which funds are transferred from people who have an excess of available funds to people who have a shortage. Financial markets such as bond and stock markets are crucial to promoting greater economic efficiency by channeling funds from people who do not have a productive use for them to those who do. Indeed, well-functioning financial markets are a key factor in producing high economic growth, and poorly performing financial markets are one reason…
Neil Shah wrote this article which briefly covers the topics of unemployment and the natural unemployment rate. The way our economy has been on a downward slope has led to the need to write about the natural unemployment rate. There are more and more people losing their jobs. Not only do they lose their jobs, but the longer that they are out of the job market, the more uninterested future employees are at hiring them, thus putting them out for a long period of time. The article focuses on how the natural rate was 5%, but has increased more recently. It tries to determine what the underlying cause of the increase is. The natural rate is healthy because it leaves room for the ebb and flow of the economy. However, increasing this natural rate only means that there are more people than should be out of work. Neil Shah believes that the reason for the higher rate of unemployment is due to a weak demand for workers. The main issue with the higher unemployment rate is that the higher it gets, the Federal Reserves would like to join in an effort to help the economy, but by doing so it leaves a risk for a higher inflation.…
4.Financial Markets. The stock and bond markets are not the only financial markets. Give two or three additional examples.…
)3 Money, financial institutions, and financial markets in the United States can have a major impact on…
a. What are the four most fundamental factors that affect the cost of money, or the general level of interest rates, in the economy?…
1) Every financial market has the following characteristic: A) It determines the level of interest rates. B) It allows common stock to be traded. C) It allows loans to be made. D) It channels funds from lenders-savers to borrowers-spenders. Answer: D 2) Financial markets have the basic function of A) bringing together people with funds to lend and people who want to borrow funds. B) assuring that the swings in the business cycle are less pronounced. C) assuring that governments need never resort to printing money. D) both (A) and (B) of the above. E) both (B) and (C) of the above. Answer: A 3) Which of the following can be described as involving direct finance? A) A corporation’s stock is traded in an over-the-counter market. B) People buy shares in a mutual fund. C) A pension fund manager buys commercial paper in the secondary market. D) An insurance company buys shares of common stock in the over-the-counter markets. E) None of the above. Answer: E 4) Which of the following can be described as involving direct finance? A) A corporation’s stock is traded in an over-the-counter market. B) A corporation buys commercial paper issued by another corporation. C) A pension fund manager buys commercial paper from the issuing corporation. D) Both (A) and (B) of the above. E) Both (B) and (C) of the above. Answer: E 5) Which of the following can be described as involving indirect finance? A) A corporation takes out loans from a bank. B) People buy shares in a mutual fund. C) A corporation buys commercial paper in a secondary market. D) All of the above. E) Only (A) and (B) of the above. Answer: D…
Men's Health is a magazine that targets its audience among males. It features a male image stereotyping the ideal male physique, low body fat and very muscular. The content of the articules feature in this amagazine are base in men's mental and physical well being with a strong focus in leaness and masculinity. The types of articles that can be found in every monthly issue in Men's Health magazine are about health, sex and relationships and guy wisdom. There can be found around three articles about health, sex and relationships such as how to prevent certain deseases or how to keep a happy marriage. Throughout the magazine can be found several articles fashion, travel, careers and money.…
The main purposes that support financial services for the economy are facilitate the flow of saving to invest through direct and indirect financial markets, to provide an efficient payments system to facilitate trade and lastly to provide a contracts to manage risk. This report will be focusing on the flow of funds where direct and indirect financings are involved.…
Unit I: Nature and Role of Financial system – Introduction; structure of financial system; Equilibrium in financial markets; financial system and economic development; Theories of Impact of Financial developments…
Financial markets facilitate the flow of funds in order to finance investments by governments, corporations, and individuals. It transfers funds from those who have excess funds (surplus units) to those who need funds(deficit units).…