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Money & Banking

Books & Other Materials

Financial Systems and Economic Growth
A video presenting traditional banking in a series of modules. The first module looks at banking in a rural Austrian village. The second concentrates on the trading of derivatives in the city of London. The third explores venture capitalism through the case study of Novarox AG, a telecommunications software company with headquarters in Zurich.

Microeconomics of Banking
Also available as an e-book

Money and Banking
This is a streaming video available via OhioLINK. The video examines government attempts to stabilize the economy and explores fractional reserve banking, the deposits in chartered banks, and how reserves can be increased.

Money in a Theory of Banking
Also available as a PDF file for download.

Free Web sites

Bankrate
A Web site that allows you to check the current interest rates and find the best CDs for investment as well as compare mortgage rates, home loans, CD rates, auto loans, and credit cards.

Cardratings.com
A Web site that provides information on credit cards and ranks the best.

Internet Public Library - Banking
A collection of quality Web sites on banking from the Internet Public Library

Wharton School of Business - Banks and Banking Web sites
A collection of Web sites pulled together by the business librarians at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Yahoo! Finance
Finance information available from Yahoo!

Journal Articles

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Business Source Complete
Has full text for more than 10,300 serials. Contains scholarly publications covering all disciplines of business including marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, and MIS. Additional materials include country economic reports, case studies company profiles, SWOT analyses and industry reports. Coverage varies by title, but in general dates back to the mid 1990s. Updated daily.
List of journals included.

Factiva
Factiva is a good source for international business and company news. It includes full text news reports from more than 10,000 sources from 159 countries and available in 22 languages.

LexisNexis Academic
Contains the full-text of newspapers for the past 20 years, federal and state case law and legislative materials, law reviews, company news and financial information, medical and health information, general information sources and much more. Updates and coverage vary by section.