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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 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]
- Bank failures and rescues [r]: an account of the occurrence , causes and consequences of bank failures, and of methods of dealing with them [e]
- Banking [r]: the system of financial intermediation that provides the principle source of credit to individuals and companies. [e]
- Monetary policy [r]: The economic policy instrument that is regularly used to stabilise the economy, and that has sometimes been used as a temporary expedient to relieve severe credit shortages. [e]
Glossary
- For financial terms not listed below, see the financial system glossary[2]
- Asset price bubbles [r]: The condition of an asset market in which price is governed by speculators' expectations that it will increase. [e]
- Bank for International Settlements [r]: A forum of central bank governors and senior executives for the discussion and policy analysis whose standing committees include the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. [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]
- Basel I & Basel II [r]: international banking regulations put forth by the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision of the Bank for International Settlements requiring banks' minimum capital adequacy ratios to be related to the riskiness of their loans. [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]
- Central counterparty [r]: An organisation that facilitates the settlement of contracts by acting as the buyer to every seller and as the seller to every buyer. [e]
- Commercial bank [r]: a bank that accepts deposits and makes loans to individuals and businesses (also known as a "retail bank"). [e]
- Contingent liability [r]: An obligation undertaken by a company that is dependent upon uncertain developments that are outside that company's control. [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]
- Fair value [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Financial Stability Board [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Financial Stability Forum see Financial Stability Board
- Herding (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Information cascade [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Investment bank [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Leverage [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mark to market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Monetary policy [r]: The economic policy instrument that is regularly used to stabilise the economy, and that has sometimes been used as a temporary expedient to relieve severe credit shortages. [e]
- Money market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Moral hazard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Noise_traders [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Off balance sheet items [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
- Stress test [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