Skip to Content
Introduction to Finance: Markets, Investments, and Financial Management, 15th Edition
book

Introduction to Finance: Markets, Investments, and Financial Management, 15th Edition

by Ronald W. Melicher, Edgar A. Norton
October 2013
Beginner
608 pages
30h 22m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Introduction to Finance: Markets, Investments, and Financial Management, 15th Edition

images

images CHAPTER 8 images

Interest Rates

Chapter Learning Objectives...

AFTER STUDYING THIS CHAPTER, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE FOLLOWING:

  • Describe how interest rates change in response to shifts in the supply and demand for loanable funds.
  • Identify major historical movements in interest rates in the United States.
  • Describe the loanable funds theory of interest rates.
  • Identify the major determinants of market interest rates.
  • Describe the types of U.S. Treasury marketable securities and indicate who owns them.
  • Explain the term or maturity structure of interest rates.
  • Identify and briefly describe the three theories used to explain the term structure of interest rates.
  • Identify broad historical price level changes in the United States and other economies and discuss their causes.
  • Describe the various types of inflation and their causes.
  • Discuss the effect of default risk premiums on the level of long-term interest rates.

Where We Have Been...

In Chapter 7, you learned about the savings and investment process as it takes place in the United States. The gross domestic product (GDP) and capital formation were discussed. GDP is composed of personal consumption expenditures, government purchases, gross ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Introduction to Finance: Markets, Investments, and Financial Management, Fourteenth Edition

Introduction to Finance: Markets, Investments, and Financial Management, Fourteenth Edition

Ronald W. Melicher, Edgar A. Norton
Investment Banking, (Includes Valuation Models + Online Course), 3rd Edition

Investment Banking, (Includes Valuation Models + Online Course), 3rd Edition

Joshua Rosenbaum, Joshua Pearl, Joseph R. Perella, Joshua Harris
Investment Banking, 3rd Edition

Investment Banking, 3rd Edition

Joshua Rosenbaum, Joshua Pearl

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781118492673Purchase bookOther