Essentials of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions

With Applications to the Developing World

Samuel K. Andoh - With Benjamin A. Abugri and John Oluseyi Kuforiji

The study of money, banking and financial markets is a required or very popular elective in most undergraduate and graduate programs in economics and finance in Africa. However, the textbooks used are those written primarily for the developed world such as the United States or the U.K. The result is that students graduate with excellent theoretical knowledge about the subject matter as it pertains to the developed economies, but lack the ability to apply the same knowledge to less developed economies.

Although the subject matter of money and banking can be treated at a theoretical level, it is best done with institutions in mind. As an application oriented course, references and applications should, as much as possible, be to the conditions and institutions present in the environment where the subject is being studied and where the knowledge will be used, rather than to institutions that exist elsewhere in developed economies.

The primary purpose of Essentials of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions is to provide a text in money, banking, and financial institutions in the context of the developing economies, especially Africa. Throughout the book, a deliberate effort will be made to focus the students’ attention on the need to develop the existing institutions so they can help to accelerate economic development.

Lexington Books

Pages: 268 • Trim: 7½ x 10¼

978-0-7391-8953-5 • Hardback • October 2014 • $150.00 • (£115.00)

978-0-7391-8954-2 • eBook • October 2014 • $142.50 • (£110.00)

Subjects: Business & Economics / Banks & Banking, Business & Economics / Finance / General, Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / Commodities / General, Social Science / World / Africa, Political Science / Developing Nations

Essentials of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions

With Applications to the Developing World

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Summary

The study of money, banking and financial markets is a required or very popular elective in most undergraduate and graduate programs in economics and finance in Africa. However, the textbooks used are those written primarily for the developed world such as the United States or the U.K. The result is that students graduate with excellent theoretical knowledge about the subject matter as it pertains to the developed economies, but lack the ability to apply the same knowledge to less developed economies.

Although the subject matter of money and banking can be treated at a theoretical level, it is best done with institutions in mind. As an application oriented course, references and applications should, as much as possible, be to the conditions and institutions present in the environment where the subject is being studied and where the knowledge will be used, rather than to institutions that exist elsewhere in developed economies.

The primary purpose of Essentials of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions is to provide a text in money, banking, and financial institutions in the context of the developing economies, especially Africa. Throughout the book, a deliberate effort will be made to focus the students’ attention on the need to develop the existing institutions so they can help to accelerate economic development.

Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 268 • Trim: 7½ x 10¼

978-0-7391-8953-5 • Hardback • October 2014 • $150.00 • (£115.00)

978-0-7391-8954-2 • eBook • October 2014 • $142.50 • (£110.00)

Subjects: Business & Economics / Banks & Banking, Business & Economics / Finance / General, Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / Commodities / General, Social Science / World / Africa, Political Science / Developing Nations

Author

Samuel K. Andoh is a professor in the Economics and Finance Department at the School of Business at Southern Connecticut State University.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1:Money, Banking and, Financial Markets
MONEY
Chapter 2:The Concept of Money
INTEREST RATE
Chapter 3:The Concept of Interest Rates
Chapter 4:Determination of Interest Rate
Chapter 5:Risk & Term Structures of Interest Rates
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 6:Financial Markets and Institutions
Chapter 7:Depository Institutions: The Business of Banking
Chapter 8:Managing Depository Institutions
Chapter 9:Regulating Depository Institutions
MONEY CREATION, CONTROL & POLICY
Chapter 10:Currency Boards and Central Banks
Chapter 11:The Money Supply Process
Chapter 12:Demand for Money
Chapter 13:The Goals and Tools of Monetary Policy
Chapter 14:Conducting Monetary Policy
Chapter 15:Aggregate Demand and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism Chapter 16:Money, Inflation and Output
Chapter 17:Foreign Exchange Market
ISLAMIC BANKING
Chapter 18:Islamic Banking

Reviews

Essentials of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions: With Applications to the Developing World presents an integrated perspective of issues in money, monetary policy, and institutions. There is something unique in the book for different audiences, whether in developed or developing countries, and it offers comparative elements of financial institutions. The treatment of Islamic Banking is an added value of the book.
— E. Olawale Ogunkola, University of Ibadan

Essentials of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions

With Applications to the Developing World

Samuel K. Andoh - With Benjamin A. Abugri and John Oluseyi Kuforiji

Essentials of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions

With Applications to the Developing World

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