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Index
See the economics index 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]
- Banking [r]: the system of financial intermediation that provides the principle source of credit to individuals and companies. [e]
- Great Depression [r]: the severe downturn in economic activity that started in 1929 in Germany and the United States and affected many other countries. [e]
- Crash of 2008 [r]: the international banking crisis that followed the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007. [e]
- Recession of 2009 [r]: the international recession that was triggered by the Crash of 2008. [e]
Glossary
(For definitions not shown below, see the economics glossary [1])
- "Bad bank" [r]: A subsidiary, or separate corporation, created to hold and manage non-performing assets transferred to it by a rescued bank. [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]
- Bill of Exchange [r]: A written order to pay the holder a stated sum of money at a stated date (otherwise known as a "draft", the person who is paid being termed the "drawer"). [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]
- Central Bank [r]: A government agency that is responsible for monetary policy and the support of the banking system (for example the Federal Reserve Board and the Bank of England). Usually responsible for controlling a country's monetary policy and preserving the value of its currency. [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]
- Credit risk [r]: The risk that the value of a loan-based security will fall as a result of defaults on the part of borrowers (as distinct from interest rate risks and exchange rate risks). [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]
- Derivative [r]: An asset whose value depends upon the expected value of another asset. [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]
- Draft (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Federal funds rate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fiat money [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Interbank market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Interest rate risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Leverage [r]: Add brief definition or description
- LIBOR [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liquidity [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liquidity risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liquidity trap [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Margin account [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Monetary base [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Money supply [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Margin call [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Market risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Monetary base [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Money market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Moral hazard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Open market operation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Prime rate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Qualitative easing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Quantitative easing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reserves (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reserve ratio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Run (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Securitisation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sterilisation, monetary [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stress test (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Structured investment vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Value at risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wholesale banking [r]: Add brief definition or description