ECON 2035 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Initial Public Offering, Primary Market

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19 Feb 2018
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Chapter 1: introducing money and the financial system: components of the financial system, financial assets, money: anything that is generally accepted as payment for a good or service. The board of governors is located in d. c: fomc meeting: meeting occurs 8 times a year. All 7 board of governors, the new york district bank president, and 4 other district bank presidents vote on monetary policy. Specifically, they determine the federal funds rate: the interest rate banks charge each other for loans. Services provided by financial system: risk sharing: allows savers to spread and transfer risk, liquidity: the ease with which an asset can be exchanged for money, information: facts about borrowers and expectations of returns on financial assets. Banks began restricted credit to all but the safest borrowers: response, troubled asset relief program: treasury provided funds to banks in exchange for stock (partial ownership).

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