In this chapter, you learned to: Describe the macroeconomic context of interest rate determination; explain the loanable funds approach to interest rate determination, including supply and demand variables for loanable funds, equilibrium and the effect of changes in variables on interest rates; understand yields, yield curves and term structures of interest rates, and apply the expectations theory, segmented markets theory and liquidity premium theory; explain the risk structure of interest rates and the impact of default risk on interest rates. | Lecture Financial institutions, instruments and markets (7e): Chapter 13 – Viney, Phillips