ECON 315 - Money and Banking

Prerequisite

ECON 204 (Principles of Macroeconomics).

Description

This course provides the study of money, banking, financial institutions and financial markets in the United States. More specifically, it covers functions of money and how it is related to interest rates; how interest rates are determined; behavior of interest rates; risk and term structures of interest rates; importance of financial markets and financial institutions in the economy; operations of depository institutions and why they are heavily regulated; how a nation's money supply is determined; tools of monetary policy; role of central banks and the Federal Reserve System; and conduct of monetary policy.

This course can be applied towards the:

• Social Sciences (B.S.)

Textbooks and Materials

Unless otherwise indicated, textbooks and materials are required and can be purchased at the CSU Bookstore.

1. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets + MyEconLab + eBook 1-sem. Stu. Access Kit, 8th Ed.
   Frederic S. Mishkin
   ISBN: 0321415051

Instructors

Naranchimeg Mijid
Naranchimeg.Mijid@colostate.edu

Naranchimeg Mijid is an instructor in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University. She is the recipient of dual master's degrees in finance and economics from the University of Colorado at Denver, while also possessing nine years' working experience in commercial banking.

Ms. Mijid is completing her Ph.D. dissertation on the topic of small business financing in the United States. Her dissertation title is "Gender, Race, and Credit Rationing of Small Businesses." She is examining if there is a difference in access to credit between women- and men-owned firms as well as between minority- and white-owned firms.

She is a winner of the 2008 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Award. Her research and teaching focus is on small business financing, financial institutions, financial systems, monetary policy, and international finance.

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