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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
See the economics glossary for definitions not shown on this page
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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- Commercial paper [r]: unsecured debt_instruments that are issued by corporations to meet short term financing needs (usually repayable after 3 months). [e]
- Contagion (banking) [r]: the spread of a run, loss or insolvency from one bank to another, or the spread of a banking crisis from one country to another. [e]
- Contingent convertible bond [r]: A bond that converts automatically into shares in a stipulated contingency (for a bank the stipulated contingency is normally that its reserve ratio falls below a stipulated level). Often called a "coco": also known as an "enhanced capital note". [e]
- Countercyclical [r]: A term that is used to describe a policy of building up reserves of capital or credit during periods of economic growth so that they will be available to use as a cushion against the effects of an economic downturn or a financial crisis [e]
- Credit easing [r]: A method of making credit more available to individuals and businesses by changing the composition of the assets of the central bank towards less liquid and riskier private sector assets. Unlike quantitative easing, it may be done without expanding the money supply. [e]
- Credit risk [r]: The risk that the value of a loan-based security will fall as a result of defaults on the part of borrowers (as distinct from interest rate risks and exchange rate risks). [e]
- Debt_instrument [r]: A formal obligation assumed by a borrower to replay the lender in accordance with the terms of an agreement, including bonds, debentures, promissory notes, leases and mortgages. [e]
- Deposit insurance [r]: An arrangement under which depositors in a bank that becomes unable to meet demands for withdrawals, are compensated to the extent of a substantial proportion of the amount of their deposits. [e]
- Derivative [r]: An asset whose value depends upon the expected value of another asset. [e]
- Discounting [r]: (i) The action of selling a bill of exchange before its due payment (or "maturity") date "at a discount": that is to say after paying the purchaser a fee for accepting it. (ii) The practice of calculating the current equivalent of a future cost or benefit by the application of a chosen discount rate. [e]
- Discount_rate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Discount window [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Draft (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
EFGHIJKL
- Enhanced capital note [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fair value [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Federal funds rate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fiat money [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fractional-reserve banking [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Great moderation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Interbank market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Interest rate risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Leverage [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Leverage ratio (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- LIBOR [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liquidity [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liquidity risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liquidity trap [r]: Add brief definition or description
MNOPQ
- Macroprudential financial policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Margin account [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Margin call [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Market risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Monetary base [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]
- Money market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Moral hazard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Open market operation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Originate and distribute [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Panic (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Prime rate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Qualitative easing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Quantitative easing [r]: Add brief definition or description
RSTUVW
- Reserves (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reserve ratio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Run (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Securitisation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sterilisation, monetary [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stress test (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Structured investment vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Syndicated bank loan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tier 1 capital [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tier 2 capital [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Value at risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wholesale banking [r]: Add brief definition or description