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Index

See the related articles subpage to the article on economics for an index to topics referred to in the economics articles.

Parent articles

• 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]

Related topics

• Crash of 2008 [r]: the international banking crisis that followed the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007. ^[e]
• National debt [r]: The external obligations of the government and public sector agencies (otherwise known as national debt or government debt). ^[e]

Glossary

(for terms not defined below, see the economics 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]
• "Bad bank" [r]: A subsidiary, or separate corporation, created to hold and manage non-performing assets transferred to it by a rescued bank. ^[e]
• Banking panic [r]: A widespread fear of insolvency because of uncertainty concerning the true value of banking assets. ^[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]
•  CDS - See Credit default swap.
• CDS spread [r]: the annual percentage charge for a credit default swap ^[e]
• Credit default swap [r]: An insurance agreement that guarantees protection against a bond default in return for a fee. ^[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]
• Crowding out [r]: A fall in private sector investment resulting from an increase in government borrowing. ^[e]
• Debt trap [r]: the situation in which the national debt continues to grow faster than national income so that more and more of the government’s budget has to be devoted to interest payments. ^[e]
• Deleveraging [r]: A reduction of the proportion of debt in a company's capital structure - also used to refer to a general reduction in household debt. ^[e]
• Fiscal [r]: relating to taxation and government expenditure. ^[e]
• Fiscal gap [r]: the size of the primary budget surplus (expressed as a percent of GDP) that is required to achieve fiscal sustainability by immediate compliance with the requirement that the national debt be maintained at or below its existing percentage of GDP. ^[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]
• Mark to market [r]: A version of the fair value accounting convention that values a security at its current market price. ^[e]
• Monetary base [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Money supply [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Output gap [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Quantitative easing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ricardian equivalence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sovereign default [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sovereign spread [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Stress test (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description