Finance (National Planning Textbook for "The 15th Five-Year Plan" in General Higher Education)

Author: Huang Da
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Publish Date: 2003-08-17
Features: Financial Studies represents a significant transformation and advancement of the currently adopted Money and Banking textbook. The goal is to continue strengthening fundamental theories and knowledge while integrating China's realities, fully reflecting the rapid developments, changes, evolutions in the financial field in recent years, and the continuous pioneering achievements in financial discipline construction, in order to meet the urgent need for substantial improvements in financial teaching quality. The book is divided into six parts. Part 1 introduces the basic concepts and categories in the financial field, serving as essential preparation for entering the halls of financial academia. Part 2 covers microfinance, including the fundamental knowledge, theories, and policy perspectives of financial markets and institutions. The interaction between financial markets and institutions is one of the focal points of current financial development, and a dedicated chapter is devoted to this discussion. Part 3 discusses the creation mechanism of modern money. Understanding the modern money creation mechanism is key to recognizing the inseparable connection between microfinance and macrofinance. Part 4 covers macrofinance, including the fundamental knowledge, theories, and policy perspectives of internal and external monetary equilibrium and the basic policy views surrounding monetary policy, with attention paid to incorporating theoretical approaches to macroeconomic regulation and international coordination. Part 5 addresses financial regulation. Part 6 presents important financial theories that are not suitable for inclusion in the preceding parts but hold fundamental and practical significance.