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CHAPTER 1
Provides for efficient flow of funds from saving to investment by bringing savers and borrowers together via financial markets and financial institutions.
Financial markets are markets for financial instruments, also called financial claims or securities.
Financial institutions (also called financial intermediaries) facilitate flows of funds from savers to borrowers.
Households supply labor, demand products, and save for the future. Businesses demand labor, supply products, and invest in productive assets. Governments collect taxes and provide public goods (e.g. education, defense).
Surplus spending units ( SSUs) have income for the period that exceeds spending, resulting in savings.
Other words for SSU are saver, lender, or investor. Most SSUs are households.
Deficit spending units (DSUs) have spending for the period that exceeds income.
Another word for DSU is borrower. Most DSUs are businesses or governments.
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SSUs claim against DSU is liability to DSU and asset to SSU. Ones liability is anothers asset: What is payable by one is receivable by another. Assets arising this way are financial assets. The financial system balancestotal financial assets equal total liabilities.
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Marketability: Ease with which a financial asset may be sold to another SSU.
Ability to resell financial claims makes them more liquid by giving SSUs choices:
Match maturity of claim to planned investment period; Buy claim with longer maturity, but sell at end of period; or Buy claim with shorter maturity, then reinvest.
DSU and SSU find each other and bargain SSU transfers funds directly to DSU DSU issues claim directly to SSU Preferences of both must match as to-Amount -Maturity -Risk -Liquidity
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DSUs and SSUs seize the day DSUs fund desired projects immediately. SSUs earn timely returns on savings. Direct markets are wholesale markets. Transactions typically $1 million or more. Institutional arrangements common.
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Investment bankers underwrite new issues of securities. Brokers and dealers bring buyers and sellers of direct claims together.
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DSU sells whole security issue to one investor or investor group. Advantages include speed and low transactions costs.
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Buy entire issues of securities from DSUs Find SSUs to buy securities at higher price Profit from difference - underwriting spread
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Brokers and dealers Brokers buy or sell at best possible price for their clients. Dealers make markets by carrying inventories of securities.
buy at bid price; sell at ask price Bid-ask spread is dealers gross profit
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Problem with direct financing: DSUs and SSUs cannot always match preferences.
Not every SSU can afford wholesale denominations of $1 million or more. DSUs and SSUs often prefer different terms to maturity.
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Commercial Banks
Take deposits and make loans Depositors are SSUs Borrowers are DSUs.
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Insurance Companies
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Benefits of financial intermediation are a primary rationale for the financial system.
Financial intermediaries lower the cost of financial services as they pursue profit. Financial intermediaries perform 5 basic services as they transform claims.
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3 sources of comparative advantage: Economies of scale Transaction cost control Risk management expertise
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Denomination Divisibility pool savings of many small SSUs into large investments.
Currency Transformation buy and sell financial claims denominated in various currencies. Maturity Flexibility Offer different ranges of maturities to both DSUs and SSUs.
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Credit Risk Diversification Assume credit risks of DSUs; spread risk over many different types of DSUs. Liquidity Give SSUs and DSUs different choices about when, to what extent, and for how long to commit to financial relationships.
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Deposit-type or Depository Institutions Contractual Savings Institutions Investment Funds Other Institutions
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Credit Unions
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Thrift Institutions
Closely resemble commercial banks Focus more on real estate loans, savings deposits, and time deposits
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Credit Unions: Unique Characteristics Mutual ownership -owned by depositors or members Common bond - members must share some meaningful common association Not-for-profit and tax - exempt
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Policyholders pay premiums, which are pooled and invested in stocks, bonds, and mortgages Investment earnings cover the costs and reward the risks of the insurance company Investments are liquidated to pay benefits.
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Sources and uses of funds resemble those of life insurers, but Casualty claims are not as predictable as death claims; so More assets are in short-term, easily marketable investments
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Workers and/or employers make contributions, which are pooled and invested in stocks, bonds, and mortgages Net of administrative costs, investment earnings are reinvested and compounded Retirement benefits replace paychecks (at least partly)
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Investment Funds help small investors share the benefits of large investments.
Mutual Funds provide intermediated access to various capital markets shareholders money is pooled and invested in stocks, bonds, or other securities according to some objective Money Market Mutual Funds (MMMFs) are uninsured substitutes for deposit accounts MMMFs buy money market instruments wholesale, pay investors interest, and allow limited check-writing
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Primary and Secondary Organized and Over-the-Counter Spot and Futures Options Foreign Exchange International and Domestic Money and Capital
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Primary markets are where financial claims are born: DSUs receive funds, claims are first issued Secondary markets are where financial claims liveare resold and repriced Claims become more liquid because SSUs can set their own holding periods Trading sets prices and yields of widely held securities
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Option Markets Rights in underlying securities or commodities writer grants owner some exclusive right for some certain time Main types of options: Puts (options to sell) Calls (options to buy) Options on listed securities and widely held commodities trade actively on organized exchanges
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Treasury Bills Negotiable Certificates of Deposit Commercial Paper Federal Funds (Fed Funds)
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INSTRUMENT Treasury bills Agency securities Negotiable CDs Commercial paper Bankers acceptances Federal Funds Repurchase agreements
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Capital Markets
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Foreign exchange risk: effect of exchange rate fluctuations on profit of financial institution Political risk: risk of government or regulatory action harmful to interests of financial institution.
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