Financial Markets and Institutions Author: Frederic S. Mishkin | Language: English | ISBN:
B008UFWDQQ | Format: EPUB
Financial Markets and Institutions Description
practical and current look into today’s financial markets and institutions.
In Financial Markets and Institutions, bestselling authors Mishkin and Eakins provide a practical introduction to help you prepare for today’s changing landscape of financial markets and institutions. A unifying framework uses a few core principles to organize learning then examines the models as real-world scenarios from a practitioner’s perspective.
This seventh edition focuses on the cause and effect of today’s global financial crisis.
- File Size: 12182 KB
- Print Length: 704 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 2 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 7 edition (April 22, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008UFWDQQ
- Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #471,979 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Mishkin delivers a serviceable, but not great book. In his rush to leave his post at the Fed, you would think he would create a more engaging book, or at least include more flesh on the financial crisis. His analysis is fairly shallow and his structure seems more geared towards a freshman/high school level class than a full fledge book for college students. Several errors in the book, including on page 428 where he definitely uses incorrect numbers from the FDIC.
That being said, as some of the material was new to me, this book provides a great, accessible overview of many concepts and structures in the financial world. The readings are a breeze, and most of the examples used are easy to grasp and understand. I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting an introduction to financial markets, but as a Economics and Business double major, I find it difficult to rate higher than 3 stars.
By CalBear2012
This is a book about "Financial Institutions" and it does not discuss Private Equity firms! (as separated from Venture Capital firms). And it only discusses Venture Capital firms for a few pages. And as far as I can see, not a word about investment strategies: Levaraged Bouyots, Growth vs. Venture Capital, Mezzanine Capital, Distressed Investment.
In a book about financial institutions and their role on the financial markets, you would expect that a full chapter should be given to Investment Banking, a full chapter to Private Equity, a full chapter to Venture Capital firms, a full chapter to Angel Investing. Not in this book. Other than that, the book is written well.
Now I have to buy a book about more financial institutions.
By Lorenzo
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