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Index
See the related articles subpage to the article on economics [1] for an index to topics referred to in the economics articles.
Parent topics
- Economics [r]: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [e]
- Financial system [r]: The interactive system of organisations that serve as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers. [e]
- Financial economics [r]: the economics of investment choices made by individuals and corporations, and their consequences for the economy, . [e]
Related topics
- Asset price bubbles [r]: The condition of an asset market in which price is governed by speculators' expectations that it will increase. [e]
- 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]
- Capital adequacy ratio [r]: The ratio of a bank's capital to its risk weighted credit exposures. May be defined in terms of tier 1 (core) or tier 2 capital. [e]
- CDO [r]: Collateralised Debt Obligation. A portfolio of corporate bonds, grouped into tranches that are ranked by estimated risk. [e]
- CDS [r]: Credit-Default Swap. An insurance agreement that guarantees protection against a bond default in return for a fee. [e]
- Commercial bank [r]: a bank that accepts deposits and makes loans to individuals and businesses (also known as a "retail bank"). [e]
- Debt_instrument [r]: A formal obligation assumed by a borrower to replay the lender in accordance with the terms of an agreement, including bonds, debentures, promissory notes, leases and mortgages. [e]
- Discounting [r]: (i) The action of selling a bill of exchange before its due payment (or "maturity") date "at a discount": that is to say after paying the purchaser a fee for accepting it. (ii) The practice of calculating the current equivalent of a future cost or benefit by the application of a chosen discount rate. [e]
- Discount_rate [r]: (i) The percentage by which current value exceeds value in a year's time. (ii) The rate at which banks may borrow at their central bank's discount window. [e]
- Discount window [r]: A facility provided by central banks that enables a bank to make secured short-term loans at its central bank's discount rate. [e]
- Dynamic provisioning [r]: The banking practice of creating a balance sheet provision out of performing loans during an economic upturn and drawing upon it during a recession. [e]
- Herding (finance) [r]: A tendency to base decisions upon the actions of others - on the part of bankers, depositors or investors. [e]
- Information cascade [r]: A succession of incremental information distortions occurring as a result of herding behaviour. [e]
- Investment bank [r]: a bank that raises finance for businesses by marketing new issues of equity and bonds. [e]
- Leverage [r]: (i) The use of borrowing to increase the amount of money that is available for investment or consumption. (ii) A proportional measure of indebtedness, such as the ratio of a company's debt to its shareholders' equity (the same as British "gearing"), or the ratio of the indebtedness of a household to the net value of its assets (ie net of its debts). [e]
- Mark to market [r]: A version of the fair value accounting convention that values a security at its current market price. [e]
- Monetary policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Money market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Moral hazard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Noise_traders [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Positive feedback [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Securitisation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Selling short [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Structured investment vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tail risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tier 1 capital [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tier 2 capital [r]: Add brief definition or description