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- 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]
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Glossary
(For definitions not shown below, see the economics glossary [1])
- 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]
- 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]
- Carry trading [r]: the practice of borrowing at a low interest rate in order to invest at a higher interest rate, or of selling the currency of a country that has low interest rates and buying the currency of a country that has high interest rates. [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]
- Central counterparty [r]: An organisation that facilitates the settlement of contracts by acting as the buyer to every seller and as the seller to every buyer. [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]
- Contracyclical regulation [r]: a policy of raising banks' statutory minimum capital adequacy ratios when asset prices are rising and relaxing them when asset prices are falling. [e]
- Counterparty [r]: The legal term that is used to refer to each of the organisations or persons that are engaged in a transaction. [e]
- Credit crunch [r]: the failure of the banking system to satisfy the economy's need for credit. [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]
- Dark pool [r]: An electronic trading system that does not publish trading prices. [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]
- Deflation [r]: a persistent sequence of reductions in the general level of prices. [e]
- Derivative [r]: An asset whose value depends upon the expected value of another asset. [e]
- Direct investment [r]: investment in a company's foreign operations. [e]
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- Efficient market hypothesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Feedback [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Financial_Intermediary [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Futures contract [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Haircut (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hedging [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hedge fund [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Herding (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Interest rate risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lender of last resort [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Leverage [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 spiral [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
- Mark to market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Money market [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Moral hazard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Netting (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Option [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Panic (banking) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pareto-efficient [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Perfect competition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Portfolio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Portfolio insurance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Repo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Securitisation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Selling short [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Settlement (finance) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sovereign spread [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Spread see Yield spread
- Sovereign wealth fund [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Structured investment vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Subprime lending [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Swap contract [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tight coupling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Value at Risk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wholesale banking [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yield spread [r]: Add brief definition or description