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Revision as of 05:38, 17 December 2012
Index
See the economics index for an index to topics referred to in the economics articles.
Parent articles
Subtopics
- Banking [r]: the system of financial intermediation that provides the principle source of credit to individuals and companies. [e]
- Bank failures and rescues [r]: an account of the occurrence , causes and consequences of bank failures, and of methods of dealing with them [e]
- U.S. financial laws [r]: Laws and enforcement mechanisms of the United States, which deal with banks and financial institutions, primarily focused on domestic activities rather than international economics [e]
Related topics
Glossary
Five other glossaries are available:
- the economics glossary
- the banking glossary
- the international economics glossary
- the macroeconomics glossary
- the monetary policy glossary
AB
- Adverse selection [r]: a partial market failure that occurs when there are traders who take advantage of asymmetric information, raising uncertainty and leading to a reduction in the value of its products. [e]
- Algorithm (finance) [r]: A computer program that is used to determine the quantity and timing of financial market transactions without further instructions from its owner. [e]
- Alpha (finance) [r]: (i) The component of a stock's expected return that is not attributable to market volatility (ii) a measure of an investment manager's performance. [e]
- Amortization [r]: An term that is used in accounting as an alternative to depreciation. [e]
- Ask price [r]: The price which a seller is prepared to accept for the sale of a good. [e]
- Asset (accountancy) [r]: An accountancy term for possessions that have money value - including, for balance sheet purposes, cash, investments, property and amounts owed by debtors. [e]
- Asset backed security [r]: A security for which the collateral and source of cash flow is a financial asset or a group of assets, such as loans, leases, credit card debt, company receivables or royalties, (but sometimes defined to exclude mortgages.) [e]
- Asset (finance) [r]: A term used in finance to denote a legal claim on something that has monetary value, such as the acknowledgement of a debt or a share in the ownership of a company. [e]
- Asymmetric information [r]: a situation in which a seller has information that is not available to potential buyers - or vice-versa. [e]
- Austerity (fiscal) [r]: A term that is popularly applied to fiscal adjustment programmes, and to their consequences such as reductions of welfare spending [e]
- Backwardation [r]: (i) The amount by which the spot price exceeds the forward price, (ii)a fee paid by a seller to defer the delivery of securities. [e]
- Balance sheet [r]: An annual statement of a company's assets and its liabilities that is a component of its annual accounts. [e]
- Bankruptcy [r]: Legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay its creditors. [e]
- Base money [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bear (finance) [r]: A stock exchange speculator who sells stock, that he may or may not own, with the intention of buying it back at a profit when its price falls - as he expects it will. [e]
- Beta [r]: A measure of the degree to which the rate of return of a share tracks that of the equity market as a whole (defined as the covariance between the share's rate of return and the average market rate, divided by the variance of the market rate). If beta = 1 the share's rate of return moves in line with the market rate; if it is negative, it falls when the market rate rises. [e]
- Bid price [r]: The price that a buyer is prepared to pay for the purchase of a good. [e]
- Bill (finance) [r]: {a) A loan with a duration of no more than a year (b)a documentary record of short-term indebtedness. [e]
- Bill of Exchange [r]: A written order to pay the holder a stated sum of money at a stated date (otherwise known as a "draft", the person who is paid being termed the "drawer"). [e]
- Bond (financial) [r]: A fixed-interest security that matures in more than a year and is issued by a government or a company. [e]
- Boom (economics) [r]: A period of rapid growth in economic activity, during which the economy is working at or near full capacity, and during which prices are increasing. [e]
- Bretton Woods [r]: An international conference held in 1944, which set up a system of fixed exchange rates linked to the US dollar which was to be freely convertible to gold, and created the International Monetary Fund. [e]
- Broad money [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Broker [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bubble (economics) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bull (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Buyback [r]: Add brief definition or description
C
- Capital adequacy ratio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Capital (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CDS [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Credit easing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CDS spread [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carry trading [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CDS [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CDS spread [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Central Bank [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Central counterparty [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Certificate of deposit [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Closed end fund [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Clearing house [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Coco [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Co-investment fund [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Collateral (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Collateralised debt obligation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Complex interactive system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Commercial paper [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Contingent convertible bond [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Contingent valuation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Contracyclical regulation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cost of capital [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Counterparty [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Covered bond [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Covered interest rate differential [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Credit default swap [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Credit easing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Credit (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Credit crunch [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Credit risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Currency board [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Currency mismatch [r]: Add brief definition or description
D
- Dark pool [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Debenture [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Debt instrument [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Debt intolerance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Debt trap [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Default (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Deflation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Deposit insurance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Depreciation (accounting) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Derivative [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Direct investment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dividend (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Discount_rate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Discount window [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Distressed exchange [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Distress sale [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dollarization [r]: Add brief definition or description
EF
- Efficient market hypothesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Equity (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Euro [r]: Add brief definition or description
- European Central Bank [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Exchange rate risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Exchange rate depreciation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fair value [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Federal funds rate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Feedback [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fiat money [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fiduciary duty [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Financial asset [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Financial_Intermediary [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fiscal adjustment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fiscal policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fiscal rule [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fiscal transfer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Forward contract [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Forward market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Freddie Mac [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Front running [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fund (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Funding [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Futures contract [r]: Add brief definition or description
GHIJKL
- Gearing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Group of Seven [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Group of Twenty [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Haircut (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hedging [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hedge fund [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Herding (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- IMF [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Information cascade [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Insolvency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Interbank market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Independent fiscal agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Interest rate risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lender of last resort [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Leverage [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liabilities (accounting) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- LIBOR [r]: Add brief definition or description
- LIBOR-OIS spread [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liquidity [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liquidity risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liquidity spiral [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Long position [r]: Add brief definition or description
MN
- Margin account [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Margin call [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Market maker [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Market risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mark to market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Money market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Moral hazard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Naked CDS [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Negotiable [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Netting (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Noise traders [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Novation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- OIS [r]: Add brief definition or description
OPQ
- OIS [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Open ended fund [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Option [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ordinary share [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Overnight index rate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Overnight index swap [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Over-the-counter market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Panic (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paris Club [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Par value [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peer to peer lending [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Preference share [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Principal (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Prime rate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Primary market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Portfolio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Portfolio insurance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Position (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Quantitative easing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Qualitative easing [r]: Add brief definition or description
RS
- Random walk (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Recovery rate (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Redemption yield [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Repurchase agreement [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reserve ratio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Restructure (debt) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Risk premium [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Roll-over [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Secondary market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Securitisation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Security (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Selling short [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Settlement (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Share (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sharpe ratio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Short position [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sovereign spread [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Special drawing right [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Spread [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sovereign wealth fund [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Spot market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stock (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stop-loss [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Structured investment vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Subprime lending [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Swap contract [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Syndicated bank loan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Systemic failure [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Systemic risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
TUVWXYZ
- Toxic debt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tight coupling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Underwriting [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Value at Risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wholesale banking [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Writedown (accounting) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yield (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yield spread [r]: Add brief definition or description