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Week 10 — Lectures 17 & 18, Reading 9
Perry Mehrling's Money and Banking MOOC
Location:
Online
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Other
YSI Presenters
Description
We're discussing the following for week 10:
Lecture 17: Direct and Indirect Finance
Lecture Notes
Capital markets (direct finance) were once thought to be largely separate from money markets (indirect finance). But money-market funding helps give "shiftability" to capital assets, and liquidity to capital markets. In the 1930's the Fed refused to backstop the shadow banking of the day. The system was allowed to collapse.
Lecture 18: Forwards and Futures
Lecture Notes
Somewhat of a sequel to Lecture 8 about lining up the timing of cashflows. Forwards and Futures help us think about derivatives. Futures are marked to market. If a price isn't what you think it should be, someone is paying for something—often liquidity. Cash and carry arbitrage.
Reading 9: Chapter 5 of Money in a Theory of Finance by Gurley and Shaw (1960)
Study Questions
A model that emphasizes funding over payments. "Primary debt" is any debt that directly funds a real investment—direct investment. "Indirect debt" merely serves as pass-through financing for primary debt—indirect investment. For Gurley and Shaw, "inside money" is any money that directly or indirectly finances private-sector primary debt. See Lecture 17.
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