Contents
         CHAPTER 1 The Function of Financial Markets
         Savings-Investment Foundation
         Efficiency of Financial Markets
         Stages of Efficiency
         Financial Assets
         The Role ofFinancial Intermediaries
         Disintermediation and Securitization
         Country Efficiency
         Financial Innovation
         The.Catalystfor Change
         Types of Innovations
         The Implications of Savings
         Degrees ofMoneyness
         Interest Rates and Arbitrage Efficiency
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 2 The Flow-of-Funds System
         The Structure of the System
         Sectoring
         Source and Use Statements
         The Preparation ofa Matrix and Its Use
         Federal Reserve Flow-of-Funds Data
         Credit Flows
         Implications ofAnalysis
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 3 Foundations for Interest Rates
         The Interest Rate in an Exchange Economy
         The Individual Choice
         Optimum with Exchange
         Combined Effect
         Market Equilibrium
         Interest Rates in a World with Risk
         Behavior of Individual Economic Units
         Utility for Financial Assets
         Utility for Financial Liabilities
         Utility for Other Assets
         Market Equilibrium
         Maximizing Utility for the Economic Unit
         TheAction ofAll Economic Units
         Summary
         Appendix: The Equilibrium Prices of Financial Assets
         Market Equilibrium: Two Economic Units
         Market Equilibrium: Multiple Financial Assets
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 4 Prices and Yields for Bonds and Money
         Market Instruments
         Review of Present Values
         Annuities
         Present Value When Interest Is Compounded More Than
         Once a Year
         Continuous Compounding
         The Price of a Bond
         Coupons and Principal Payments
         Price When Next Coupon Payment Is Less Than Six
         Months Away
         Zero-Coupon Bonds
         Yield Calculations for Bonds
         Implicit Reinvestment Rate Assumption
         Current Yield
         Holding Period Return
         Yield-to-Maturity for Zero-Coupon Bonds
         Yield for Perpetuities
         Money Market Instrument Returns
         Bank Discount Rate
         Implications
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 5 Inflation and Retums
         The Historical Record in Brief
         The Nature of Inflation Premiums
         Unanticipated Inflation
         The Fisher Effect
         Nominal Interest Rates and Inflation, Theoretically
         Empirical Evidence on Nominal Interest Rates
         Problems in Empirical Testing
         Testing for the Effect oflnflation
         The Fisher Effect More Directly
         A Summing Up
         Nominal Contracting Effects
         Debtor-Creditor Claims
         Depreciation
         Inventories
         Corporate Value
         Empirical Testing
         Inflation Indexed Bonds
         The Mechanics
         Other Aspects
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 6 The Term Structure of Interest Rates
         Definition of Term Structure
         The Pure Expectations Theory
         Forward Rates oflnterest
         Substitutability of Maturities
         Technical Problems
         Arbitrage and Market Efficiency
         Uncertainty and Term Premiums
         Market Segmentation
         Cox-Ingersoll-Ross Theory
         General Equilibrium Notions
         Term Structure Implications
         Other Models of the Term Structure
         Multifactor Models
         Lattice-Type Models
         Empirical Evidence
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 7 Price Volatility, Coupon Rate, and Maturity
         The Coupon Effect
         Sensitivity ofPrice to Various Properties
         The Duration Measure and Its Changing Behavior
         Relationship between Duration and Maturity
         Relationship between Duration and Coupon Payment
         Relationship between Duration and Changes in Interest Rates
         Volatility Duration
         Modified Duration Formula
         Convexity
         The Convexity Measure
         Illustration of Price-Change Estimates Using Modified Duration
         and Convexity
         Further Observations on Convexity
         Immunization of Bond Portfolios
         Immunization with Coupon Issues
         An Illustration
         Fisher-Weil Duration
         Mapping the Stochastic Process
         Testing for Immunization Effectiveness
         Additional Immunization Considerations
         Equilibration between Coupon and Noncoupon Bond Markets
         Coupon Stripping
         Term Structure ofPure Discount Bonds
         Arbitrage Efficiency between the Markets
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 8 The Default-Risk Structure of Interest Rates
         Promised, Realized, and Expected Rates
         Distribution of Possible Returns
         Empirical Evidence on Default Losses
         Credit Ratings and Risk Premiums
         Some Studies of Bond Ratings
         Cyclical Behavior of Risk Premiums
         The Market Segmentation Effect
         Speculative-Grade (Junk) Bonds
         Development ofthe Market
         Issuers and Use in Acquisitions
         Risk versus Return
         Event Risk
         Risk Structure and the Term Structure
         Empirical Evidence
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 9 Derivative Securities: Interest-Rate Futures
         Introduction to Contract
         Features of Futures Markets
         Money Market Instruments
         Contents Vll
         Margin Requirements
         Marking-to-Market and Price Movements
         Longer-Term Instruments
         Quality Delivery Options
         Hedging and Speculation
         Some Hedging Fundamentals
         Futures and Spot Prices
         Long Hedges
         Hedge Ratios
         Short Hedges
         Basis Risk
         More on Basis Risk
         Sources ofBasis Risk
         Market Efficiency
         Possible Reasons for Deviation of Forward
         and Futures Rates
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 10 Derivative Securities: Options
         Option Valuation
         Expiration Date Value ofan Option
         Valuation Prior to Expiration
         Hedging with Options
         Black-Scholes Option Model
         Debt Options
         Features ofFutures Options
         Use ofDebt Options
         Caps, Floors, and Collars
         Valuation ofDebt Options
         Yield Curve Options
         Convertible Securities
         Conversion Price/Ratio
         Debt Plus Option Characteristic
         Value of Convertible Securities
         Premiums
         Other Reasons for Premiums
         Summary
         Appendix A: Put-Call Parity
         Appendix B: Application of Option Pricing Concepts to Valuing
         Convertible Securities
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 11 Derivative Securities: Swaps
         Swap Features
         An Illustration
         Valuation Issues
         Comparative Advantage
         Completing Markets
         Default Risk
         Skirting Tax Laws and Regulations
         Swap Valuation: A Summing Up
         Credit Risk, Maturity, and Systemic Risk
         Default Provisions
         Value at Risk
         Secondary Market Values
         Swaptions
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 12 Embedded Options and Option-Adjusted
         Spreads
         Option-Adjusted Spreads
         The Basic Methodology
         An Illustrdtion
         Some Caveats
         The Nature of the Call Feature
         Forms ofthe Provision
         Redemption versus Callability
         Putable Bonds
         The Call Feature's Valuation
         Interest-Rate Expectations
         The Call Feature and Convexity
         Valuation in an Option Pricing Context
         Empirical Evidence on Call Valuation
         The Sinking Fund
         Characteristics ofthe Provision
         Value ofthe Sinking Fund
         Empirical Evidence
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 13 Mortgage Securities and Prepayment Risk
         Some Features of Mortgages
         Mortgage Pass-Through Security
         Agency Pass-Throughs
         Nonagency Pass-Throughs
         Mortgage Derivatives
         Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs)
         Planned Amortization Class (PAC) and Targeted Amortization
         Class (TAC) Securities
         Stripped Mortgage-Backed Securities
         Floaters and Inverse Floaters
         Prepayment Option and Its Valuation
         Prepayment and Convexity
         Measures of Prepayment
         Coupon Rate and Age
         Additional Factors Explaining Prepayment
         Modeling Prepayment Experience
         Option-Adjusted Spread Approach
         Prepayment Behavior of Certain Derivatives
         Planned Amortization Class Securities
         Interest Only (lOs), Principal Only (POs) and Residual Class Securitie
         Other Asset-Backed Securities
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 14 Controlling Currency Risk
         Risk and Return from Foreign Investment
         Exchange Rate Risk Management
         Forward Exchange Market
         Illustration of Spot and Forward Exchange Rates
         A Single European Currency (Euro)
         Underlying Relationships
         The Law of One Price
         Purchasing Power Parity
         Interest-Rate Parity
         Covered Interest Arbitrage
         Interest-Rate Parity Approximation
         Empirical Evidence Concerning Interest-Rate Parity (IRP)
         Other Ways to Shift Risk
         Currency Futures
         Currency Options
         Currency Swaps
         Currency/interest-Rate Swaps
         Valuation Implications
         The Amount to Hedge
         A Free Lunch?
         The Cost of Currency Hedging
         Black's Universal Hedging
         Closing Thoughts
         Some Institutional Characteristics
         Euro and Foreign Bonds
         Currency-Option and Multiple-Currency Bonds
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 15 TheInfluenceofTaxes
         Tax Treatment of Capital Gains
         Original Issue Discount (OID) Bonds
         Capital Gains Treatment for Taxable Coupon Bonds
         The De Minimis Rule
         Capital Gains Treatment for Municipal Bonds
         Tax Timing Options
         Municipal Bonds and the Taxation of Interest Income
         Taxable versus Tax-Exempt Yields
         The Nature ofthe Municipal Market
         Value of the Tax Exemption Feature
         Variation oflmplied Tax Rate
         The Effect of Tax Reform and Supply
         Implied Tax Rate and Maturity
         Preferred-Stock Tax Effects
         Straight Preferred-Stock Investments
         Auction-Rate Preferred Stock
         Summary
         Selected References
         CHAPTER 16 The Social Allocation of Capital
         The Issues Involved
         Ceilings on Borrowing Costs
         The Effect of Usury Laws
         The Negatives of Interest-Rate Ceilings
         Government Guarantees and Insurance
         The Transfer of Underlying Risk
         Option-Pricing Valuation
         Interest-Rate Subsidies
         The Effect ofthe Subsidy
         Effectiveness ofthe Subsidy
         Financial Intermediation Through Borrowing and Relending
         The Situation Illustrated
         The Effect of Government Intermediation
         Regulations Affecting Investor and Borrower Behavior
         The Effectiveness of'This Approach
         The Costs to Society
         Qualification for Tax-Exempt Financing
         Benefits, Costs, and Externalities
         Policy Implications
         Summary
         Selected References
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