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==Glossary== | ==Glossary== | ||
Five other glossaries are available: | |||
* the [[Economics/Glossary|economics glossary]] | |||
* the [[Banking/Related Articles#Glossary|banking glossary]] | |||
* the [[Financial system/Related Articles#Glossary|finance glossary]] | |||
* the [[Macroeconomics/Related Articles#Glossary|macroeconomics glossary]] | |||
* the [[International economics/Related Articles#Glossary|international economics glossary]] | |||
:see also the European Central Bank Glossary[http://www.ecb.int/home/glossary/html/glossa.en.html] | |||
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{{r|Debt_instrument}} | {{r|Debt_instrument}} | ||
{{r|Discount window}} | {{r|Discount window}} | ||
{{r|Federal funds rate}} | {{r|Federal funds rate}} | ||
{{r|Fiat money}} | {{r|Fiat money}} | ||
{{r|Forex swap}} | |||
{{r|Interbank market}} | {{r|Interbank market}} | ||
{{r|Leverage}} | {{r|Leverage}} | ||
{{r|LIBOR}} | {{r|LIBOR}} | ||
{{r|Open market operations}} | {{r|Open market operations}} | ||
{{r|Price flexibility}} | |||
{{r|Qualitative easing}} | |||
{{r|Quantitative easing}} | {{r|Quantitative easing}} | ||
{{r|Repurchase agreement}} | |||
{{r|Repurchase operation}} | |||
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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]
- Macroeconomics [r]: The study of the behaviour of the principal economic aggregates, treating the national economy as an open system. [e]
- Financial economics [r]: the economics of investment choices made by individuals and corporations, and their consequences for the economy, . [e]
- Financial system [r]: The interactive system of organisations that serve as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers. [e]
Related topics
- Fiscal policy [r]: Policy concerning public expenditure, taxation and borrowing and the provision of public goods and services, and their effects upon social conduct, the distribution of wealth and the level of economic activity. [e]
- Banking [r]: the system of financial intermediation that provides the principle source of credit to individuals and companies. [e]
- Deflation [r]: a persistent sequence of reductions in the general level of prices. [e]
Glossary
Five other glossaries are available:
- the economics glossary
- the banking glossary
- the finance glossary
- the macroeconomics glossary
- the international economics glossary
- see also the European Central Bank Glossary[2]
- Bubble (economics) [r]: A surge in prices that raises expectations of further increases, so generating further increases: a process that continues until confidence falters, the bubble "bursts" and prices rapidly revert to an objectively-based level. [e]
- Commercial paper [r]: unsecured debt_instruments that are issued by corporations to meet short term financing needs (usually repayable after 3 months). [e]
- Credit easing [r]: A method of making credit more available to individuals and businesses by changing the composition of the assets of the central bank towards less liquid and riskier private sector assets. Unlike quantitative easing, it may be done without expanding the money supply. [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]
- 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]
- Federal funds rate [r]: The overnight interest rate at which banks lend balances at the Federal Reserve to other banks. [e]
- Fiat money [r]: money whose value is determined solely by government order, or "fiat" (as distinct from commodity money that has value because of its scarcity or cost of production). [e]
- Forex swap [r]: Simultaneous spot and forward transactions exchanging one currency against another. [e]
- Interbank market [r]: a market in which a group of banks lend to each other (for example, see LIBOR). [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]
- LIBOR [r]: (London Interbank Offer Rate) the rate of interest at which a group of banks (16 banks from seven countries, including the United States, Switzerland and Germany) are willing to lend to each other for periods ranging from a day to a year . [e]
- Open market operations [r]: The purchase or sale of government bonds by a central bank in order to change commercial banks' reserve ratios with a view to the consequences for the money supply and interest rates. [e]
- Price flexibility [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Qualitative easing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Quantitative easing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Repurchase agreement [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Repurchase operation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sacrifice ratio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Time inconsistency [r]: Add brief definition or description