张成思，中国人民大学财政金融学院货币金融系主任，金融学教授，博士生导师，曾执教于香港中文大学。主要研究方向为货币政策、通货膨胀动态机制、金融发展以及金融时间序列分析等。近年来以独立或第一作者在Journal of International Money and Finance（金融类SSCI期刊世界排名第8）、JMCB、IREF、The World Economy、Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics等国际主流SSCI期刊发表论文40余篇（其中半数为刊首文或封面文章），在《经济研究》、《金融研究》、《管理世界》、《世界经济》等中文权威及核心期刊发表论文近百篇。2010年获得“中国青年经济学者论坛”优秀论文奖（共评选出6篇），2013年荣获“中国青年金融学者”奖，2014年获得“第六届薛暮桥价格研究奖”，2015年其专著《中国通货膨胀动态形成机制的多重逻辑》入选国家社科基金成果文库。世界有名的RePEC数据库统计的中国学者国际学术文章综合影响力情况显示，作者位列前10%（其中含国内兼职的国外教授）。
目录
Foundation Topics
Chapter 1 Finance Foundations
1.1 The scope of finance
1.2 The role of finance in world business
1.3 Finance theory
1.4 The streams of finance
1.5 Important concepts in finance
Chapter 2 Financial Institutions
2.1 Bank financial institutions
2.2 Savings institutions
2.3 Quasi-banking institutions
2.4 Securities firms
2.5 Securities business
2.6 Mutual fund
2.7 Pension funds and investment companies
2.8 The financial regulators
Chapter 3 Financial Instruments
3.1 What is a 'financial instrument'
3.2 Commercial paper and commercial bill
3.3 Banker's acceptance
3.4 Stock
3.5 Fixed income products
3.6 Bond
3.7 Treasury Bills and Teasury Bonds
3.8 Forward contract
3.9 Futures contract
3.10 Swaps
3.11 Options
3.12 Mortgage-backed security MBS
3.13 Asset-backed security - ABS
Chapter 4 Financial Markets
4.1 Financial market and financial system
4.2 Capital market
4.3 Money market
4.4 The comparisons between capital and money markets
4.5 Categories of financial markets
4.6 Equity market
4.7 Debt vs equity markets
4.8 Stock market
4.9 Over-The-Counter – OTC
4.10 Interbank market
4.11 The foreign exchange and gold market
4.12 Shadow market
Chapter 5 Financial Pricing
5.1 Interest rates
5.2 Bond pricing
5.3 Net present value and the internal rate of return
5.4 Yield to maturity YTM
5.5 Term structure of interest rates
5.6 Various yield curve types
5.7 Yield curve risk and trade strategy
5.8 Spread in finance
5.9 LIBOR
Professional Topics
Chapter 6 Central banking
6.1 Central bank features and history
6.2 Functions of central bank and monetary policy
6.3 Central bank interest rate control
6.4 Central banks and inflation
6.5 Central bank’s balance sheet
6.6 Monetary policy tools
6.7 Monetary policy operational targets
6.8 Monetary policy intermediate targets
6.9 Monetary policy goals
6.10 Central bank money supply process
Chapter 7 International Finance
7.1 Introduction of International finance
7.2 Gold standard
7.3 The Bretton Woods Agreement
7.4 The International Monetary Fund
7.5 What is 'The World Bank
7.6 Interest rate parity
7.7 Purchasing power parity PPP
7.8 How is PPP used
7.9 Comments on PPP
7.10 Relative Purchasing Power Parity RPPP
7.11 International Fisher Effect
7.12 Optimum Currency Area Theory
Advanced Topics
Chapter 8 Real Estate Finance
8.1 Why invest in real estate
8.2 Individual ways of real estate investing
8.3 Institutional ways of real estate investing
8.4 Commercial real estate
8.5 Commercial real estate investing
8.6 Hot commercial real estate
8.7 Commercial real estate loans
8.8 Details on commercial real estate loans
8.9 Main types of mortgage lenders
8.10 What Is a reverse mortgage
Chapter 9 Household Finance
9.1 Understanding household finance
9.2 Household retail finance
9.3 Household finance company
9.4 Household finance services
9.5 Household bank finance
9.6 Household car finance
9.7 Household income
9.8 Household income and financial accelerator
9.9 Household expenses
9.10 Home equity and loan-to-value ratio - LTV ratio
Chapter 10 Personal Finance
10.1 Personal finance planning
10.2 Principles of personal finance strategies
10.3 Personal finance disciplines
10.4 Personal finance rules
10.5 Pension plan
10.6 Credit score
10.7 Managing personal finances
10.8 Wealth management
10.9 Private wealth management
10.10 Portfolio management and financial planning
