Financial Markets

Finance and Management

• Most central discipline for managers is finance
• Integration into all aspects of business management, including accounting, corporate strategy, industrial organization
• Integration into government finance as well
• Integration growing through time

Finance and Law

• Lawyers are often financial inventors
• Often government role in process
• Law schools deal with all the minutiae

Text #1: Foundations of Financial Markets and Institutions

• Frank J. Fabozzi, Author/Editor of 117 books, publisher (Frank Fabozzi Associates), Adjunct Prof. Yale SOM
• Franco Modigliani, Prof. Of Economics and Finance Emeritus, MIT
• Frank J. Jones, Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America
• Michael G. Ferri. George Mason University
• Entire book assigned