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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 articles

Economics

Subtopics

Banking

Bank failures and rescues

Related topics

Crash of 2008

Discount rate

Financial economics

International economics

Glossary

(For definitions not shown below, see the economics glossary [2])

  • 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]
  • Asymmetric information [r]: a situation in which a seller has information that is not available to potential buyers - or vice-versa. [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]
  • 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]
  • CDS [r]: Credit-Default Swap. An insurance agreement that guarantees protection against a bond default in return for a fee. [e]
  • CDS spread [r]: the annual percentage charge for a credit default swap [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]
  • Complex interactive system [r]: A system in which an event in one of its components can have significant repercussions in many other components; and which can exist in more states than can be enumerated - including "open systems" whose operation is affected by events that have been generated from outside (such as international trade in the case of an economic system). [e]
  • Commercial paper [r]: unsecured debt_instruments that are issued by corporations to meet short term financing needs (usually repayable after 3 months). [e]

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Spread   see Yield spread
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