Mark D. Griffiths is the Jack Anderson Professor of Fiance at Miami University's Richard T. Farmer School of Business. His research focuses primarily on issues in market microstructure, money markets and short-term interest rates. Dr Griffiths' publications appear in leading academic journals including Journal of Business, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Financial Intermediation. He received undergraduate degrees in French and administrative studies from the University of Western Ontario and from York University, Canada, respectively. He completed an MBA in finance at York University before earning a master's degree in economics at the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Western Ontario.
Drew B. Winters is the Jerry S. Rawls Professor of Finance and Area Coordinator of Finance at Texas Tech University's Rawls College of Business. His research focuses on the behavior of short-term interest rates and the determinants of interest rates on bank lines of credit. His publications appear in leading journals such as Journal of Business, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, and counting Research, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, and the Economic Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Before joining Texas Tech, Dr. Winters Served at the University of Central Florida, University of Southern Mississippi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Western Illinois University. He has also served as a Visiting Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Before he entered academic life, Dr. Winters was a loan officer at First Union National Bank and a staff accountant for a public accounting firm. Dr. Winters received a Ph.D. in Finance and the MBA from the University of Georgia, and a B.S. in computer science and accounting from Duke University.
Chapter 2. Overview of Financial Institutions.
Chapter 3. The Level and Structure of Interest Rates.
Chapter 4. Money Markets.
Chapter 5. Bond Valuation.
Chapter 6. Mortgage Valuation.
Chapter 7. Equity Valuation.
Chapter 8. Foreign Exchange Markets.
Chapter 9. Forward and Futures Contracts.
Chapter 10. Option Markets.
Chapter 11. Introduction to Risk Management.
Chapter 12. Money Market Risk Management.
Chapter 13. Bond Risk Management.
Chapter 14. Mortgage Risk Management.
Chapter 15. Stock Portfolio Formation and Risk Management.
Chapter 16. Foreign Currency Risk Management.
Chapter 17. Derivative Risk Management.
Chapter 18. Interest Rate Derivatives.
Chapter 19. An Introduction to Credit Derivatives.