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:''The [[Financial system/Related Articles#Glossary|finance glossary]] and the [[Banking/Related Articles#Glossary|banking glossary]] define some specialised terms that are not included in this glossary''
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* the [[Macroeconomics/Related Articles#Glossary|macroeconomics glossary]]
* the [[Financial system/Related Articles#Glossary|finance glossary]]
* the [[Banking/Related Articles#Glossary|banking glossary]]  
* the [[International economics/Related Articles#Glossary|international economics glossary]]
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Glossary of terms related to Economics.


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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]
  • Agency cost [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Applied statistics [r]: the practice of collecting and interpreting numerical observations for the purpose of generating information. [e]
  • Arbitrage [r]: transactions to take advantage of a price differences of a product in different markets by buying where it is cheap and selling where it is dear. The possibility of arbitrage often prevents the occurrence of price differences. [e]
  • Ask price [r]: The price which a seller is prepared to accept for the sale of a good. [e]
  • Asset price bubble [r]: The condition of an asset market in which price is governed by speculators' expectations that it will increase. [e]
  • Asymmetric information [r]: a situation in which a seller has information that is not available to potential buyers - or vice-versa. [e]
  • Asymmetric shock [r]: A shock that has different effects upon different parts of an economic system such as a country or a monetary union. [e]
  • Austrian School of economics [r]: A school of economists who reject the tenets of macroeconomics and oppose the practice of collective economic management; and whose methodology concentrates upon the decisions of individuals and the operation of the market mechanism. [e]
  • Automatic stabilisers [r]: the tendency in times of falling economic activity for the government spending to rise, and for tax receipts to fall - and the reverse tendency in times of rising economic activity [e]

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