Finance and Financial Intermediation

The financial system is a densely interconnected network of financial intermediaries, facilitators, and markets that serves three major purposes: allocating capital, sharing risks, and facilitating intertemporal trade. Finance and Financial Intermediation provides a broad overview of the financial system and assets pricing, covering history, institutional detail, and theory. It also examines soverign debt crises and their forms through analysis of cases like the Great Recession of the 2000s.