This assignment requires you to research how financial markets contribute to economic growth. 

You must respond to the following:

• Why are financial markets essential for healthy economic growth
• What are financial institutions? Describe the following and give an example of each: investment banks, commercial banks, financial services corporations, pension funds, and mutual funds.

Be aware that it is unlikey you will be able to answer these questions with only one research article.

Begin searching in ABI/INFORM Collection linked below.

Some keyword searches to try include:

• financial market operations
• financial markets role "economic growth"    
• financial markets "economic growth"                                                                                 

Be sure to use the quotation marks as shown; they tell the database to look for the words together.

• On the left of the search results page, you may want to limit your results to scholarly journals.
• You may want to limit also by publication date and/or location (geography-United States).

Once you select any of these limiters, your results will refresh.

The second part of the assignment asks you to define and describe various types of financial institutions.

Some keyword searches may include:

• "financial institutions"
• financial institution "commercial banks"
• financial institution "investment banks"

You can also search for specific types of financial institutions in Gale eBooks.

For this part of the assignment, you must research the following topics:

1. Explain capital transfers.
2. What are the three primary ways in which capital is transferred between savers and borrowers? Describe each one.
3. What is a financial market?
4. Differentiate between the following markets:
   1. Physical asset markets versus financial asset markets
   2. Spot markets versus futures market
   3. Money markets versus capital markets
   4. Primary asset markets versus secondary markets
   5. Public markets versus private markets   

Search any of the suggested keywords below using ABI/Inform Collection, Gale eBooks, or on the SEARCH page of this guide:

• "capital transfers"
• capital transfer methods
• "financial market"
• physical asset markets vs financial asset markets
• spot markets vs futures market
• money markets vs capital markets
• primary asset markets vs secondary markets
• public markets vs private markets 

Be sure to use the quotation marks as shown; they tell the database to look for the words together.