Money & banking
Undergraduate · Economics
Syllabus focus
Topics typically covered
Standard syllabus
Financial system
- Roles of money, credit, and financial intermediaries
- Interest rates: nominal/real, term structure (intro)
- Bond pricing and yield basics
- Stock markets and efficient-market ideas (survey)
- Asymmetric information in lending
- Financial crises stylized timeline
Banking
- Bank balance sheets and liquidity/solvency
- Reserve requirements and deposit creation
- Credit risk, interest-rate risk, and duration intro
- Regulation and deposit insurance
- Shadow banking survey
- Fintech and payment systems overview
Central banking and policy
- Federal Reserve structure and tools (or local central bank)
- Open-market operations and interest-on-reserves
- Monetary policy goals and dual mandate
- Transmission channels to the real economy
- Inflation targeting and forward guidance (intro)
- International reserves and FX intervention survey
STEM / applied
Quantitative practice
- Calculate simple bond prices/yields
- Analyze T-account impacts of Fed operations
- Spreadsheet term-structure examples
- Interpret yield-curve shapes
- Read FOMC statements with vocabulary precision
- Problem sets on money multipliers (as taught)
Applications
- Case studies: 2008, COVID policy, regional banking stress
- Compare central-bank frameworks across countries
- Communicate financial-stability tradeoffs
- Connect banking to macro IS–LM/MP models
- Ethics of lending and inclusion
- Capstone: bank/regulator role-play briefing
Study units
Each unit includes a study guide, worksheets, review, practice test, and answer key. One unit is free; subscribe for the full class.
- Financial system
Roles of money, credit, and financial intermediaries
Coming soon - Banking
Bank balance sheets and liquidity/solvency
Coming soon - Central banking and policy
Federal Reserve structure and tools (or local central bank)
Coming soon
Notes
May sit in economics or finance departments. Tutoring aligns to the course’s institutional focus (US Fed vs comparative).