Chapter 1 what is money © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc All rights reserved 3 1 Required Chapters • 1) Why study Money, Banking and FMs? • 2) An overview of the Financial System • 3) What is Money? • 4) Understanding the interest rates • 5) The behavior of interest rate • 6) Risk and Term structure of Interest rate • 8) An Economic Analysis of Financial Structure • 10) Banking Management of FIs • 13) Central Banks Federal Reserve System • 15) The tools of Monetary Policy • 17) The Foreign Exch.