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Part I. Introduction. Chapter 1. Introduction ; Chapter 2. Financial Intermediaries and Financial Innovation ; Chapter 3. The Role of the Government in Financial Markets -- Part 2. Depository Institutions. Chapter 4. Depository Institutions: Activities and Characteristics ; Chapter 5. Central Banks and the Creation of Money ; Chapter 6. Monetary Policy -- Part 3. Nondepository Financial Intermediaries. Chapter. 7. Insurance Companies ; Chapter 8. Investment Companies and Exchange-Traded Funds ; Chapter 9. Pension Funds -- Part 4. Determinants of Asset Prices and Interest Rates. Chapter 10. Properties and Pricing of Financial Assets ; Chapter 11. The Level and Structure of Interest Rates ; Chapter 12. The Term Structure of Interest Rates ; Chapter 13. Risk /Return and Asset Pricing Models -- Part 5. Organization and Structure of Markets. Chapter 14. Primary Markets and the Underwriting of Securities ; Chapter 15. Secondary Markets -- Part 6. Markets for Government Debt. Chapter 16. Treasury and Agency Securities Markets ; Chapter 17. Municipal Securities Markets -- Part 7. Markets For Corporate Securities. Chapter 18. Common Stock Markets in the United States ; Chapter 19. International Stock Markets ; Chapter 20. Markets for Corporate Senior Instruments: I ; Chapter 21. Corporate Senior Instruments: II ; Chapter 22. The Markets for Bank Obligations -- Part 8. Mortgage And Securitized Asset Markets. Chapter 23. The Mortgage Market. ; Chapter 24. Mortgage-Backed Securities Market ; Chapter 25. Asset-Backed Securities Markets -- Part 9. Markets for Derivative Securities. Chapter 26. Financial Futures Markets ; Chapter 27. Options Markets ; Chapter 28. Pricing of Futures and Options Contracts ; Chapter 29. The Applications of Futures and Options Contracts ; Chapter 30. Other Derivative Markets: Swaps, Caps, Floor, and Credits Derivatives ; Chapter 31. The Market for Foreign Exchange Rate Risk Control Instruments.