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Index

See the economics index for an index to topics referred to in the economics articles.

Parent articles

Economics

Subtopics

Banking

Bank failures and rescues

Related topics

Credit rating agency

Crash of 2008

Discount rate

Financial economics

Fiscal policy

International economics

Taxation

Index

See the economics index for an index to topics referred to in the economics articles.

Parent articles

Economics

Subtopics

Banking

Bank failures and rescues

Related topics

Credit rating agency

Crash of 2008

Discount rate

Financial economics

Fiscal policy

International economics

Taxation

Glossary

See the economics glossary for definitions not shown on this page

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]
  • Amortization [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • Bill (finance) [r]: {a) A loan with a duration of no more than a year (b)a documentary record of short-term indebtedness. [e]
  • Bond (finance) [r]: a fixed-interest security issued by governments, companies, banks and others. [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]
  • Broker [r]: Individual or firm that provides investment advise to clients and executes their buying and selling instructions, usually by acting as a market maker. [e]
  • 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]

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