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Index
See the economics index for an index to topics referred to in the economics articles.
Parent articles
Subtopics
Keynesianism, IS-LM model, monetarism,
Related topics
Banking, Money supply, Public expenditure, Fiscal policy, Taxation
Glossary
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- the economics glossary
- the banking glossary
- the finance glossary
- the international economics glossary
- the monetary policy glossary
- Automatic stabilisers [r]: the tendency in times of falling economic activity for the government spending to rise, and for tax receipts to fall - and the reverse tendency in times of rising economic activity [e]
- Credit crunch [r]: the failure of the banking system to satisfy the economy's need for credit. [e]
- Crowding out [r]: A fall in private sector investment resulting from an increase in government borrowing. [e]
- Deflation [r]: a persistent sequence of reductions in the general level of prices. [e]
- Fiscal stimulus [r]: a reduction in taxation for the purpose of raising economic output, or an increase in government spending for that purpose. [e]
- General equilibrium [r]: A hypothetical state of a set of inter-related markets such that there is no excess supply nor excess demand in any market (see Equilibrium and disequilibrium). [e]
- Hicks-Hansen model [r]: a model of simultaneous equilibrium in the product and money markets - shown graphically as two intersecting interest rate/spending graphs, one depicting the investment/savings (I/S) relation and the other the liquidity/money (L/M) supply relation (also known as the IS-LM model). [e]
- IS-LM model [r]: Model of simultaneous equilibrium in the product and money markets - shown graphically as two intersecting interest rate/spending graphs, one depicting the investment/savings (I/S) relation and the other the liquidity/money (L/M) supply relation (also known as the Hicks-Hansen model). [e]
- Liquidity preference [r]: A desire to hold money in preference to other financial assets that is attributable to the transactions motive, the speculative motive or the precautionary motive. [e]
- Liquidity trap [r]: a state of the economy in which an expansionary monetary policy has no effect upon output. [e]
- Phillips curve [r]: A proposed inverse relationship between the inflation rate and the unemployment rate (that was found to lack empirical support and was replaced in the economics consensus by the expectations-augmented Phillips curve). [e]
- Non-accelerating-inflation rate of unemployment [r]: The unemployment rate at which the expected inflation rate is the same as the actual inflation rate [e]
- Precautionary motive [r]: A wish to hold money to meet unforeseen demands for monetary payments. [e]
- Output gap [r]: the percentage difference between the current value of the output of an economy, and that economy's normal output trend. [e]
- Quantitative easing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Shock (economics) [r]: An event that causes a change of expectations, as a result of which there are changes of economic activity that displace the economy from its previous path. [e]
- Supply shock [r]: A sudden change in the price or availability of goods or services - such as might result from an earthquake or an increase in the oil price. [e]
- Supply-side measures [r]: measures taken with the purpose of increasing a country's economic efficiency, e.g. by removing barriers to competition or counter market failures. [e]