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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 [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 system [r]: The interactive system of organisations that serve as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers. ^[e]

Glossary

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

• Balance of payments problem [r]: Lack of sufficient foreign exchange reserves to maintain the desired fixed exchange rate of a country's currency. ^[e]

• Comparative advantage [r]: The motive for trade that arises from the fact that for each trader there are things that he does best, and things that he can better obtain by trading. ^[e]

• Comparative statics [r]: The method of deducing the effects of an action upon an economic system by consideration of the difference between its prior and consequent static states - and without reference to transitional conditions. ^[e]

• Econometrics [r]: The use of mathematical techniques to derive economic relationships from economic statistics. ^[e]

• Economies of scale [r]: The factors that cause the cost of production of a product to fall as output of the product is increased. ^[e]

• Eurozone [r]: The member states of the European Union that use the euro as their common currency (Belgium, Germany¸ Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Finland) ^[e]

• Learning curve [r]: A mathematical relationship between the cost of performing an action and the number of times it has been performed. ^[e]

• Marginal product [r]: The additional output of a product produced by the application of one additional unit of input. ^[e]

• Market power [r]: The ability of a supplier to exercise a degree of choice concerning the pricing of a product by restricting its supply: a measure of departure from the ideal of perfect competition in which every supplier is a price-taker ^[e]

• Precautionary principle [r]: A policy of avoiding actions that have unknown consequences (variously interpreted). ^[e]

• Protection [r]: In international economics, a restriction upon trade by the imposition of quotas or tariffs. ^[e]

• Quality bias [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Quota [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Systemic risk [r]: In financial economics, the risk that failure in one part of a financial system could impair the functioning of that system. ^[e]

• Tariff [r]: In international economics, the imposition of tax upon imports that is related to the value that is imported. ^[e]

• Terms of trade [r]: The ratio of the index of a country's export prices to the index of its import prices. ^[e]

• Washington Consensus [r]: An interpretation of the conditions required by the International Monetary Fund for financial assistance to developing countries. ^[e]