Types of Capital/Financial Assets (4)

Primary Institution of Financial Economy

Investment Universe

Futures

Bond

Stock

Options

Commercial Paper

Money as an Asset

Brief History of Currency

Pros & Cons of Pegged Currencies

Case Study: China's Manipulation of Currency

Devaluation of Currencies (3)

Appreciation of Currencies

Monetary Policy

How to Defend a Currency

Risk Encountered by Firms (2 Types)

Spot Rate

Arbitrage

Bid Rate

Ask Rate

Spread

Forward Rate

Flexible Exchange Rate

Fixed Exchange Rate

Key Market Players (4)

PPP = Price Level

Valuation of Currencies Indices (3)

Uncovered Interest Parity

Covered Interest Parity

Big Mac Index

Black Wednesday

Currency Cycle

Manipulating Currency Cycle with Interest Rates

Currency Crisis

Actors of a Currency Crisis (2)

Self-fulfilling

Stages of Currency Crisis (4)

Characteristics of Currency Crisis (3)

First Generation Crisis Model

Game Theory Model

Criticisms of First Generation Model (4)

Second Generation Crisis Model (and 3 assumptions)

Trilemma

Brief Timeline of Crisis in Mexico (7)

Austerity Conditions Imposed on Mexico (5)

Political Dramas in Mexico Contributing to Crash (3)

Tequila Effect

Types of Financial Crisis (5)

Financial Crisis (basic definition)

Asymmetrical Information

Measuring Currency and Banking Crises

Condition of Moral Hazard

Individual & Institutional Moral Hazards

Adverse Selection

Disruptions Leading to Financial Crisis (5) and Adverse Selection/Moral Hazard

Equity Financing

Glass-Steagall Act

Keynesianism

Internet Age

"The Gradual Decline..." (4)

New Financial Products to Spread Risk (4)

Sovereign Rating

US Government Response to Crisis (2)

Market Response to Crisis (5)

Political Response to Crisis (2)

Socio-Political Response to Crisis (6)

Euro Currency Crisis: Hard-Hit Countries (7)

Leaving the Euro (pros and cons)

European Policy Responses to Sovereign Debt Crisis (5)

European Social Responses to Sovereign Debt Crisis (5)

Results of the Sovereign Debt Crisis Responses (pros and cons)

Bull-Whip Effect

Benefits of International Capital Mobility (2)

Limits of International Capital Mobility (4)

Problem with Globalization & Growth

Solow Model

Total Factor Productivity

Human Capital and TFP

Technology and TFP

Open Economies and TFP

"Transfer" Company

Corruption According to "Transfer"

Vocational Economics

Human Economics

Problems with Economic Globalization (4)

Issue of Long-Term (In)Equality (Piketty)

Pros and Cons of Globalization

Gini Coefficient

Reasons for Increasing Inequality (5)

Reasons Global Equality is Increasing