TY - BOOK AU - Cargill, Thomas F. TI - The Financial System, Financial Regulation and Central Bank Policy SN - 9781107689763 U1 - 332.11 PY - 2017/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Finance - Government policy N1 - Part I: Introduction to the Financial and Monetary Regime 1. The financial and monetary regime 2. Basic concepts regarding money Part II: The Financial System Component of the Financial and Monetary Regime 3. The financial system and the country's flow of fund 4. Interest rates in the financial system 5. The level of interest rates 6. The structure of interest rates 7. International dimensions of the financial system Part III: The Role of Government in the Financial and Monetary Regime 8. The basic roles of government in the financial and monetary regime 9. Regulation and supervision of the financial system 10. A short history of the US financial and monetary regime in action Part IV: Five Steps to Understanding Central Banks and Central Bank Policy 11. The five steps and step 1 the institutional design of the central bank 12. Central banks, base money and the money supply 13. Step 2 tools of monetary policy and step 3 monetary policy instruments 14. Step 4 the central bank model of the economy 15. Step 5 final policy targets 16. Monetary policy tactics, strategy and rules versus discretion; Part V: Performance of the US financial and monetary regime 17. Five important periods in the US financial and monetary regime ER -