Financial Markets and Institutions

Financial Markets and Institutions covers many of the same topics in an Economics Money and Banking course. Some of this content is used to supplement the textbook while the rest is for those who want to learn more outside of the classroom.

Textbook

Required Text: Financial Markets and Institutions by Mishkin and Eakins

Resources

• Hayek: Nobel Prize Speech (1974) “The Pretense of Knowledge“
• The Economist: The Slumps That Shaped Modern Finance
• CME Group: FedWatch Tool
• Chair the Fed Simulation
• Macroeconomics @ Khan Academy – For those who have not taken a basic macroeconomics course, here are some resources for self study.
• Regression Basics – This is the bare minimum you must know about linear regression as an undergraduate business major regardless of what university you attend. It is located in the appendix of Introduction to Finance Analytics.
• Related Online Classes
  • Financial Markets by Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller from 2011 @ Yale University
  • Finance Theory I by Andrew Lo from 2008 @ MIT
  • Finance Theory by John Geanakoplos @ Yale. This is useful for people who have only studied economics and want to learn some finance.