Financial Markets [Paperback]

Robert Kolb (Author), Ricardo J. Rodriguez (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1557869049 | ISBN-13: 978-1557869043 | Publication Date: August 14, 1996 | Edition: 1

Financial Markets> provides a concise, yet comprehensive introduction to financial markets for undergraduate or MBA students studying finance or money and banking. The text employs an analytical approach to the role of financial markets in a modern economy, debt and equality markets, and derivatives markets and risk management. In each case, the discussions explore the financial economics of the area of study and focus on the application of finance concepts to practical business management problems. The material covering financial derivatives offers an extensive treatment of the topic, placing particular emphasis on how derivatives are used in risk management.
* The text includes STUDY!, a computerized study guide that includes a bank of multiple choice questions covering all of the essential conceptual issues in the text.

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Financial Markets provides a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to financial markets for undergraduate or MBA students studying finance or money and banking. The text breaks with the non-analytical tradition of most texts and employs an analytical approach to the role of financial markets in a modern economy, debt and equity markets, and derivatives markets and risk management. In each case, the discussion explores the financial economics of the area of study and focuses on the application of finance concepts to practical business management problems. The material covering financial derivatives offers an extensive treatment of the topic placing particular emphasis on how derivatives are used in risk management.

About the Author

Professor Robert W. Kolb taught investments at the University of Miami until 1996. He is the author and editor of over a dozen books and numerous articles on finance and investments. Kolb currently devotes his time to writing and research, especially in the areas of futures markets, investments and bond portfolio management.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 14, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557869049
• ISBN-13: 978-1557869043
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,601,455 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Robert W. Kolb

Kolb holds two Ph.D.s from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (philosophy 1974, finance 1978) and has been a finance professor at the University of Florida, Emory University, the University of Miami, the University of Colorado, and currently at Loyola University Chicago, where he holds the Considine Chair of Applied Ethics.

Kolb's recent writings include Understanding Futures Markets 6e, and Futures, Options, and Swaps 5e, co-authored with James A. Overdahl. Edited volumes include The Ethics of Executive Compensation, The Ethics of Genetic Commerce, Corporate Retirement Security: Social and Ethical Issues, Corporate Boards: Managers of Risk, Sources of Risk, and the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, a five-volume 1.5 million word work. Bob recently published Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future. Current projects include: Employee Stock Options: Financial, Social, and Ethical Issues and The Financial Crisis of Our Time, forthcoming from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and Oxford University Press, respectively.

Bob also is the sponsoring editor for the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance:

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-397613.html

Also, visit Bob's web pages:

Academic and professional: http://www.RobertWKolb.com

Photographic: http://www.kolbphoto.com