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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]
Related topics
- Macroprudential financial policy [r]: a regime that has the purpose of promoting the stability of banks and other financial institutions and the purpose of preserving the integrity of the financial system. [e]
- Crash of 2008 [r]: the international banking crisis that followed the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007. [e]
- Subprime mortgage crisis [r]: financial crisis arising from defaults on the United States mortgage markets. [e]
Glossary
- 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]
- Herding (finance) [r]: A tendency to base decisions upon the actions of others - on the part of bankers, depositors or investors. [e]
- Information cascade [r]: A succession of incremental information distortions occurring as a result of herding behaviour. [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]
- Noise_traders [r]: Traders who buy or sell shares for reasons unconnected with information about the issuing companies or the markets in which they operate. [e]
- Positive feedback [r]: A systemic reaction to an occurrence that has the effect of increasing the magnitude of that occurrence. [e]
- Stop-loss [r]: An order to sell an asset if its market price falls by more than a specified amount (a form of herding). [e]