Financial Markets and Institutions (8th edition)

Book Preface

For the Professor

The demands for good teaching at business schools have increased dramatically in recent years. To meet these demands, the eighth edition of Financial Markets and Institutions includes the most comprehensive program of supplementary materials of any textbook in its field that should make teaching the course substantially easier.

These resources are available at www.pearsonhighered.com/irc.

1. Online Instructor’s Manual: This manual, prepared by the authors, includes chapter outlines, overviews, teaching tips, and complete solutions to questions and problems in the text.

2. Online PowerPoint: Prepared by John Banko (University of Florida). The presentation, which contains lecture notes and the complete set of figures and tables from the textbook, contains more than 1,000 slides that comprehensively outline the major points covered in the text.

3. Online Test Item File: Updated and revised for the eighth edition, the Test Item File comprises over 2,500 multiple-choice, true-false, and essay questions.

All of the questions from the Test Item File are available in computerized format for use in the TestGen software. The TestGen software is available for both Windows and Macintosh systems.

4. Mishkin/Eakins Companion Website (http://www.pearsonhighered.com/ mishkin_eakins) features Web chapters on financial crises in emerging economies, savings associations and credit unions, and another on finance companies, Web appendices, animated figures, and links to relevant data sources and Federal Reserve Web sites.

For the Student

1. Study Guide: Updated and revised for the eighth edition, the Study Guide offers chapter summaries, exercises, self-tests, and answers to the exercises and self-tests.

2. Mishkin/Eakins Companion Website (www.pearsonhighered.com/ mishkin_eakins) includes Web chapters on financial crises in emerging economies, savings associations and credit unions, and another on finance companies, Web appendices, animated figures, glossary flash cards, Web exercises, readings in Financial Markets and Institutions, edited by Jim Eaton of Bridgewater College and Rick Mishkin, and links from the textbook.