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Index

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

Parent topics

  • Economics [r]: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [e]
  • Financial economics [r]: the economics of investment choices made by individuals and corporations, and their consequences for the economy, . [e]
  • Financial system [r]: The interactive system of organisations that serve as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers. [e]

Subtopics

  • Bank failures and rescues [r]: an account of the occurrence , causes and consequences of bank failures, and of methods of dealing with them [e]
  • Financial regulation [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]
  • Monetary policy [r]: The economic policy instrument that is regularly used to stabilise the economy, and that has sometimes been used as a temporary expedient to relieve severe credit shortages. [e]

Glossary

Five other glossaries are available:

ABCD

  • Asset price bubbles [r]: The condition of an asset market in which price is governed by speculators' expectations that it will increase. [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 - see Panic (banking)
  • Basel Committee on Banking Supervision [r]: The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision exchanges information on national supervisory issues and publishes guidelines and supervisory standards. [e]
  • Basel I [r]: A set of recommendations published in 1988 by the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision that were intended to ensure that banks have enough capital to cope with the risks that they may be expected to encounter. [e]
  • Basel II [r]: A replacement for Basel I published in 2004 by the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision that requires banks to identify the risks they may be expected to encounter and to improve their ability to manage them. [e]
  • Basel III [r]: A set of recommendations published in 2010, by the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision, introducing a leverage ratio requirement, a liquidity requirement, and a range of countercyclical proposals. [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]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • 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]

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