discussion question financial institution and market FIN402
- Explain the eight basic facts about the US financial structure.
- Explain how financial intermediaries allow their borrowers and savers to benefit from the existence of financial markets.
- Explain the problems that result from asymmetric information.
- Explain the tools that can be used to reduce these problems.
- Identify the three types of financial service activities with the greatest potential for conflicts of interest and explain why it is important avoid and eliminate conflicts of interest.
- Define the conditions that lead to a financial crisis.
- Identify the various ways in which a financial crisis can occur and their associated results.
- Describe the three stages of financial crises and the relationships between them.
- Explain the origin and progression of the financial crisis that began in 2007.
- Explain the progression of financial crises as experienced in emerging market countries
- Explain the non-financial effects of financial crises.
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