Financial system/Related Articles

Index[edit]

See the economics index for an index to topics referred to in the economics articles.

Parent articles[edit]

Economics

Subtopics[edit]

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]
U.S. financial laws [r]: Laws and enforcement mechanisms of the United States, which deal with banks and financial institutions, primarily focused on domestic activities rather than international economics ^[e]

Glossary[edit]

Five other glossaries are available:

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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]
Algorithm (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Alpha (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Amortization [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ask price [r]: Add brief definition or description
Asset (accountancy) [r]: An accountancy term for possessions that have money value - including, for balance sheet purposes, cash, investments, property and amounts owed by debtors. ^[e]
Asset backed security [r]: A security for which the collateral and source of cash flow is a financial asset or a group of assets, such as loans, leases, credit card debt, company receivables or royalties, (but sometimes defined to exclude mortgages.) ^[e]
Asset (finance) [r]: A term used in finance to denote a legal claim on something that has monetary value, such as the acknowledgement of a debt or a share in the ownership of a company. ^[e]
Asymmetric information [r]: a situation in which a seller has information that is not available to potential buyers - or vice-versa. ^[e]
Austerity (fiscal) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Backwardation [r]: (i) The amount by which the spot price exceeds the forward price, (ii)a fee paid by a seller to defer the delivery of securities. ^[e]
Balance sheet [r]: An annual statement of a company's assets and its liabilities that is a component of its annual accounts. ^[e]
Bankruptcy [r]: Legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay its creditors. ^[e]
Base money [r]: Add brief definition or description
Bear (finance) [r]: A stock exchange speculator who sells stock, that he may or may not own, with the intention of buying it back at a profit when its price falls - as he expects it will. ^[e]
Beta [r]: A measure of the degree to which the rate of return of a share tracks that of the equity market as a whole (defined as the covariance between the share's rate of return and the average market rate, divided by the variance of the market rate). If beta = 1 the share's rate of return moves in line with the market rate; if it is negative, it falls when the market rate rises. ^[e]
Bid price [r]: The price that a buyer is prepared to pay for the purchase of a good. ^[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]
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]
Bond (financial) [r]: A fixed-interest security that matures in more than a year and is issued by a government or a company. ^[e]
Boom (economics) [r]: A period of rapid growth in economic activity, during which the economy is working at or near full capacity, and during which prices are increasing. ^[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]
Broad money [r]: Add brief definition or description
Broker [r]: Add brief definition or description
Bubble (economics) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Bull (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Buyback [r]: Add brief definition or description