Topic outline
Chapter 1
- What Is a Financial System?
- Components of Financial System
- Direct and Indirect Finance
Chapter 2
- Definition of the Financial Market
- Importance of Financial Markets
- Functions of Financial Markets
- Economic Functions
- Financial Functions
Chapter 3
- Money and Capital Markets
- Debt and Equity Markets
- Primary and Secondary Markets
- Exchanges and Over-the-Counter Markets
- Spot Markets and Futures Markets.
- Other financial markets.
Chapter 4
- The Clearinghouse: An Overview
- Introduction to Financial Intermediation
- Collective Bargaining
Chapter 5
- The money market
- The Bond market
- The equity market
- The derivatives market
Chapter 6
- What Is Bid and Ask?
- The Different Kinds of Value in Finance
- Trading shares
- How stock exchanges work