© 12 Nov. 2008
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Hi there! Welcome to the Fall semester Banking and Financial Institutions class. You can find the syllabus here. The course starts on 25 September, and lasts for 13 weeks, after which you will have three dates for a final exam. Check the syllabus for details. After the beginning of the semester, come back to this website regularly for updates because it is your responsibility to be up to date with the material covered. Thanks,

Stankov

Here are the lecture presentations and all the corresponding readings for you:
Lecture 1.1 slides: Why study money, banking and financial markets?
Lecture 1.2 slides: An overview of the financial system and the financial instruments
Lecture 2.1 slides: What is money?
Lecture 2.2 slides: Understanding interest rates
Lecture 3.1 slides: The behavior of interest rates
Lecture 3.2 slides: Changes in equilibrium interest rates
Lecture 4.1 slides: Money market equilibrium
Lecture 4.2 slides: Money supply and interest rates
Lecture 5.1 slides: Basics of banking
Lecture 5.2 slides: General principles of bank management
Lecture 6.1 slides: Managing risk in banking
Lecture 6.2 slides: Understanding banking as an industry
Lecture 6.2: Additional Material: CNB (2005). Banking Supervision in the Czech Republic (2005) - NOT A REQUIRED READING! More statistics and publications on the Czech Banking industry here.
Midterm exam preparation. Practice midterm exam. Suggested solutions
Lecture 7: Midterm exam Fall 2008. Midterm exam. Suggested solutions
Lecture 8.1 slides: Financial development and economic growth. Financial crises
Lecture 8.2 slides: Cases of financial crises
Lecture 9.1 slides: The structure of the central bank: the FED and the CNB
Lecture 9.2 slides: The ECB. The EMU. Advantages and disadvantages of the Euro
Lecture 10.1 slides: The tools of monetary policy
Lecture 10.2 slides: Goals and conduct of monetary policy
Lecture 11.1 slides: Transmission mechanisms of monetary policy
Lecture 11.2 slides: Exchange rates
Lecture 12.1 slides: Explaining changes in exchange rates
Lecture 12.2 slides: Exchange rate targeting and currency boards
Lecture 13.1 slides: Monetary and inflation targeting
Lecture 13.2 slides: Money and inflation
Lecture 13.3: Revision lecture
Additional practice questions: Divine intervention (from The Economist, March 27, 2008)
Practice Final Exam. Suggested solutions
Answers to some of the end-of-the-chapter practice questions here.