ISE Financial Markets and Institutions

Financial Markets and Institutions is aimed at the first course in financial markets and institutions at both the undergraduate and MBA levels. While topics covered in this book are found in more advanced textbooks on financial markets and institutions, the explanations and illustrations are aimed at those with little or no practical or academic experience beyond the introductory-level finance courses. In most chapters, the main relationships are presented by figures, graphs, and simple examples. The more complicated details and technical problems related to in-chapter discussion are provided in appendixes to the chapters.

Since the author team's focus is on return and risk and the sources of that return and risk in domestic and foreign financial markets and institutions, this text relates ways in which a modern financial manager, saver, and investor can expand return with a managed level of risk to achieve the best, or most favorable, return–risk outcome. 

Anuhony Saunders is the John M. Schiff Professor of Finance and the former Chair of the Department of Finance at the Stem School of Business at New York University. Professor Saunders received his PhD from the London School of Economics and has taught both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses at NYU since 1978. Throughout his academic career, his teaching and research have specialized in financial institutions and international banking. He has served as a visiting professor all over the world, including INSEAD, the Stockholm School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne.

Professor Saunders has held positions on the Board of Academic Consultants of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors as well as the Council of Research Advisors for the Federal National Mortgage Association. In addition, Dr. Saunders has acted as a visiting scholar at the Comptroller of the Currency and at the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia and New York. He was an academic consultant for the FDIC. He also held a visiting position in the research department of the International Monetary Fund. He is editor of Financial Markets, Instruments and Institutions. His research has been published in all the major money and banking and finance journals and in several books. In addition, he has authored or coauthored several professional books, including Credit Risk Measurement: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms, third edition, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2010. In 2008, he was ranked as the most published author in the last SO years in the top seven journals in finance.


Marcia Millon Cornett is the Robert A. and Julia E. Dorn Professor of Finance at Bentley University. She received her BS degree in economics from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and her MBA and PhD degrees in finance from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Dr. Cornett has written and published several articles in the areas of bank performance, bank regulation, corporate finance, and investments.

Articles authored by Dr. Cornett have appeared in such academic journals as the Journal of Finance; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Journal of Financial Economics; Financial Management; and Journal of Banking and Finance. She was recently ranked the 124th most published out of more than 17,600 authors and the number five female author in finance literature over the last 50 years. Along with Anthony Saunders and Otgontsetseg Erhemjamts, Dr. Cornett has recently completed work on theeighth edition of Financial Markets and Institutions (McGraw Hill Education). Along with Troy Adair and John Nofsinger, Dr. Cornett has recently completed work on the sixth edition of Finance: Applications and Theory (McGraw Hill Education). Dr. Cornett serves as an Associate Editor for the the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Services Research, Review of Financial Economics, Financial Review, and Multinational Finance Journal.

Dr. Cornett has served as a member of the board of directors, the executive committee, and the finance committee of the SIU Credit Union. Dr. Cornett has also taught at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, the University of Colorado, Boston College, and Southern Methodist University. She is a member of the Financial Management Association, the American Finance Association, and the Western Finance Association.


Otgo Erhemjamts is the Dean of the School of Managment and Professor of Finance at University of San Francisco. She received her BS and MS degrees in Information Technology from Mongolian University of Science and Technology, her MS degree in Economics from the University of Idaho, and her PhD degree in Finance from Georgia State University. Dr. Erhemjamts has written and published articles in the areas of risk management, bank performance, life insurer demutualizations, product market competition, industry structure, and corporate social responsibility.

Her research has appeared in academic journals such asJournal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Risk and Insurance; andJournal of Business Ethics. Dr. Erhemjamts serves as an Associate Editor for theGlobal Finance Journal. She has taught undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in financial institutions, risk management and insurance, financial markets, investments, equity valuation, and sustainable investing it Georgia State University and Bentley University. Dr. Erhemjamts is a member of the Financial Management Association, the American Finance Association, and the Eastern Finance Association.