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•  Absolute advantage - definition

•  Adaptive expectations

•  Adverse selection

•  Advertising

•  Agency costs

•  Agricultural policy

•  Altruism

•  Amortisation - definition

•  Amortisation

•  Animal spirits

•  Antitrust

•  Appreciation

•  Arbitrage - definition

•  Arbitrage

•  Arbitrage pricing theory

•  Assets - definition

•  Asymmetric information

•  Asymmetric shock

•  Auctions

•  Austrian economics

•  Autarky

•  Average - definition

•  Backwardation

•  Balance of payments

•  Balanced budget

•  Bankruptcy

•  Barriers to entry

•  Barriers to exit

•  Barter - definition

•  Basel 1 and 2

•  Basis point

•  Bear market

•  Behavioral economics

•  Beta

•  Big Mac index

•  Black economy

•  Black-Scholes

•  Bonds

•  Bonds - Junk Bonds - definition

•  Boom and bust

•  Bounded rationality - definition

•  Bounded rationality

•  Brand

•  Bretton Woods

•  Bubble

•  Budget - definition

•  Bull Market - definition

•  Bull Market

•  Business confidence - definition

•  Business confidence

•  Business cycle - definition

•  Buyer's market - definition

•  Cannibalise

•  Capacity

•  Capital

•  Capital adequacy ratio

•  Capital asset pricing model

•  Capital controls

•  Capital flight

•  Capital gains - definition

•  Capital intensive

•  Capital markets

•  Capital structure

•  Capitalism - definition

•  CAPM economics

•  Cartel - definition

•  Catch-up effect

•  Central bank

•  Ceteris paribus - definition

•  Charity

•  Chicago School

•  Classical dichotomy

•  Classical economics

•  Closed economy - definition

•  Coase theorem - definition

•  Collateral

•  Collusion - definition

•  Command economy

•  Commoditisation - definition

•  Commodity - definition

•  Common goods - definition

•  Communism

•  Comparative advantage - definition

•  Competition

•  Competitive advantage - definition

•  Competitiveness economics

•  Complementary goods

•  Compound interest - definition

•  Concentration

•  Conditionality - definition

•  Consumer confidence

•  Consumer prices

•  Consumer surplus - definition

•  Consumption - definition

•  Contagion

•  Contestable market

•  Convergence

•  Corruption economics

•  Cost of capital

•  Cost-benefit analysis - definition

•  Creative destruction - definition

•  Credit - definition

•  Credit creation

•  Credit crunch - definition

•  Credit default swaps - definition

•  Creditor - definition

•  Crony capitalism - definition

•  Crowding out - definition

•  Currency board

•  Currency peg - definition

•  Current account

•  Deadweight cost - definition

•  Deadweight loss - definition

•  Debt

•  Debt forgiveness

•  Debt-equity ratio - definition

•  Default - definition

•  Deficit - definition

•  Deflation - definition

•  Demand - definition

•  Demand curve

•  Demographics - definition

•  Deposit insurance - definition

•  Depreciation - definition

•  Depression (economic)

•  Deregulation - definition

•  Derivatives - definition

•  Devaluation

•  Developing countries

•  Development

•  Diminishing returns - definition

•  Direct taxation

•  Discount rate

•  Discounted cashflow

•  Diseconomies of scale - definition

•  Disequilibrium

•  Disinflation

•  Disintermediation - definition

•  Diversification - definition

•  Dividend - definition

•  Division of labor

•  Dollarisation

•  Dominant firm - definition

•  Dumping - definition

•  ECB

•  Econometrics - definition

•  Economic and monetary union

•  Economic indicator

•  Economic man

•  Economic rent

•  Economic sanctions - definition

•  Economic sanctions

•  Economics - definition

•  Economies of scale

•  Effective exchange rate - definition

•  Efficiency

•  Efficiency wages - definition

•  Efficient market hypothesis

•  Elasticity

•  Emerging markets

•  Endogenous - definition

•  Engel's law

•  Enron

•  Enterprise

•  Entrepreneur - definition

•  Environmental economics

•  Equilibrium

•  Equities - definition

•  Equity

•  Equity risk premium

•  Euro

•  Euro Zone

•  Eurodollar - definition

•  Eurodollar

•  European Central Bank

•  European Union

•  Evolutionary economics - definition

•  Evolutionary economics

•  Excess returns

•  Exchange controls

•  Exchange rate

•  Exogenous - definition

•  Expectations

•  Expected returns

•  Expenditure tax

•  Export credit

•  Exports - definition

•  Externality - definition

•  Factor cost

•  Factors of production

•  Factory prices

•  Fair trade

•  FDI - definition

•  FDI

•  Federal Reserve System

•  Financial center

•  Financial instrument

•  Financial intermediary - definition

•  Financial markets - definition

•  Financial markets

•  Financial system - definition

•  Financial system

•  Fine tuning

•  First-mover advantage - definition

•  Fiscal drag - definition

•  Fiscal neutrality - definition

•  Fiscal policy

•  Fixed costs - definition

•  Flotation - definition

•  Forecasting economics

•  Foreign direct investment

•  Forward contracts - definition

•  Forward contracts

•  Free lunch - definition

•  Free lunch

•  Free riding - definition

•  Free trade - definition

•  Frictional unemployment - definition

•  Friedman, Milton

•  Full employment - definition

•  Fungible - definition

•  Futures - definition

•  Game theory - definition

•  GATT

•  GDP (gross domestic product)

•  Gearing

•  General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

•  General equilibrium - definition

•  Generational accounting

•  Giffen goods

•  Gilts

•  Gini coefficien - definition

•  Global public goods - definition

•  Globalisation - definition

•  GNI economics

•  GNP - definition

•  Gold standard

•  Golden rule

•  Golden rule - definition

•  Government bonds - definition

•  Government bonds

•  Government debt - definition

•  Government expenditure - definition

•  Government revenue

•  Greenspan, Alan

•  Gresham's law - definition

•  Gross domestic product - definition

•  Gross national product - definition

•  Growth (economic)

•  Hard currency - definition

•  Hawala

•  Hayek, Friedrich

•  Hedge fund - definition

•  Herfindahl-Hirschman index - definition

•  Herfindahl-Hirschman index

•  Homo economicus - definition

•  Homo economicus

•  Horizontal equity

•  Horizontal integration

•  Hot money

•  House prices - definition

•  Human capital

•  Human Development Index

•  Hyperinflation - definition

•  Hypothecation - definition

•  Hysteresis - definition

•  Imperfect competition - definition

•  International Labor Organisation (ILO)

•  International Monetary Fund (IMF)

•  Imports - definition

•  Income - definition

•  Income effect - definition

•  Income tax

•  Income tax - definition

•  Incumbent advantage - definition

•  Index numbers - definition

•  Indexation - definition

•  Indifference curve

•  Indirect taxation

•  Inelastic - definition

•  Inequality - definition

•  Inferior goods - definition

•  Inflation - definition

•  Inflation target

•  Information - definition

•  Infrastructure

•  Innovation - definition

•  Insider trading - definition

•  Insider trading

•  Institutional economics

•  Institutional investors

•  Insurance

•  Intangible assets - definition

•  Intellectual capital

•  Interest - definition

•  Interest rate - definition

•  International aid

•  International Labour Organisation

•  International Monetary Fund (IMF)

•  International trade

•  Intervention - definition

•  Investment - definition

•  Invisible hand - definition

•  Invisible trade - definition

•  Inward investment - definition

•  J-curve - definition

•  Job search

•  Joint supply

•  Keynes, John Maynard

•  Keynesian

•  Kleptocracy - definition

•  Labour - definition

•  Labor intensive - definition

•  Labor market flexibility

•  Labor theory of value

•  Laffer curve - defrinition

•  Laffer curve

•  Laffer curve - news

•  Lagging indicators - definition

•  Lagging indicators

•  Laissez-faire - definition

•  Land

•  Land tax

•  Law and economics

•  LBO - definition

•  Leading indicators - definition

•  Leading indicators

•  Lender of last resort

•  Leverage - definition

•  Leveraged buy-out

•  Liberal economics

•  Liberalisation - definition

•  LIBOR - definition

•  Life (Human capital)

•  Life-cycle hypothesis

•  Liquidity - definition

•  Liquidity trap - definition

•  Locn-in (path dependence)

•  Lump of labor fallacy

•  Lump-sum tax - definition

•  Lump-sum tax

•  Luxuries - definition

•  Macroeconomic policy

•  Macroeconomics - definition

•  Manufacturing

•  Marginal - definition

•  Market capitalisation - definition

•  Market capitalisation

•  Market capitalisation news

•  Market failure

•  Market forces - definition

•  Market power - definition

•  Marshall Plan

•  Marshall, Alfred

•  Marx, Karl

•  Mean (mathematical definition)

•  Mean reversion - definition

•  Mean reversion

•  Median - definition (math)

•  Median - definition (economics)

•  Medium term

•  Menu costs

•  Mercantilism - definition

•  Mergers and acquisitions

•  Microeconomics - definition

•  Minimum wage

•  Misery index

•  Mixed economy - definition

•  Mobility (economic) - definition

•  Mode - definition

•  Modelling (economic)

•  Modern portfolio theory - definition

•  Monetarism - definition

•  Monetary neutrality - definition

•  Monetary policy

•  Money illusion

•  Money markets

•  Money markets - definition

•  Money supply - definition

•  Monopolistic competition

•  Monopoly - definition

•  Monopsony - definition

•  Moral hazard

•  Most-favored nation - definition

•  Multiplier

•  NAFTA

•  NAIRU

•  Nash equilibrium - definition

•  Nash, John Forbes (bio)

•  Nation building

•  National debt

•  National income - definition

•  Nationalisation

•  Natural monopoly - definition

•  Natural rate of unemployment

•  Negative income tax

•  Neo-classical economics - definition

•  Net present value

•  Network effect

•  Neutrality - definition

•  New economy - definition

•  New growth theory - definition

•  New trade theory

•  NGO - definition

•  Nobel prize for economics

•  Nominal value - derfinition

•  Non-price competition - definition

•  Normal goods - definition

•  Normative economics

•  NPV

•  Null hypothesis - definition

•  OECD

•  Offshore - definition

•  Okun's law - definition

•  Oligopoly

•  OPEC - definition

•  OPEC

•  Open economy - definition

•  Open economy

•  Open-market operations - definition

•  Opportunity cost - definition

•  Optimal currency area - definition

•  Optimal currency area

•  Optimum - definition

•  Option - definition

•  Output - definition

•  Output (economic)

•  Output gap

•  Outsourcing - definition

•  Outward investment - definition

•  Outward investment

•  Over the counter - definition

•  Overheating - definition

•  Overshooting - definition

•  Pareto efficiency - definition

•  Paris Club

•  Patent - definition

•  Patents

•  Path dependence - definition

•  Path dependence

•  Peak pricing

•  Percentage point - definition

•  Percentile - definition

•  Perfect competition - definition

•  Perfect competition

•  Permanent income - definition

•  Phillips curve

•  Pigou effect

•  Plaza Accord - definition

•  Plaza Accord

•  Population

•  Positional goods

•  Positive economics - definition

•  Poverty - definition

•  Poverty

•  Poverty trap

•  PPP

•  Precautionary motive

•  Predatory pricing - definition

•  Present value - definition

•  Present value

•  Price - definition

•  Price discrimination

•  Price elasticity - definition

•  Price elasticity

•  Price mechanism

•  Price regulation

•  Price/earnings ratio

•  Principal-agent theory - definition

•  Prisoners' dilemma

•  Private equity - definition

•  Private equity

•  Privatisation - definition

•  Privatisation

•  Probability (Statistical) - definition

•  Probability (Statistical)

•  Producer prices - definition

•  Producer prices

•  Producer surplus - definition

•  Producer surplus

•  Production function - definition

•  Productivity

•  Profit

•  Profit margin - definition

•  Profit maximisation

•  Progressive taxation - definition

•  Propensity - definition

•  Property rights - definition

•  Prospect theory - definition

•  Prospect theory

•  Protectionism - definition

•  Protectionism

•  Public goods - definition

•  Public goods

•  Public spending

•  Public utility

•  Public-private - definition

•  Purchasing power parity - definition

•  Q theory - definition

•  Quantity theory of money

•  Quartile - definition

•  Queueing - definition

•  Quota - definition

•  R squared - definition

•  Random walk - definition

•  Rate of return - definition

•  Rate of return

•  Rate of return regulation

•  Ratings - definition

•  Rational expectations

•  Rationality

•  Rationing

•  Real balance effect

•  Real exchange rate

•  Real interest rate

•  Real options theory

•  Real terms

•  Recession - definition

•  Recession

•  Reciprocity

•  Redlining - definition

•  Reflation

•  Regional policy

•  Regression analysis - definition

•  Regressive tax

•  Regulation

•  Regulatory arbitrage - definition

•  Regulatory capture

•  Regulatory failure

•  Regulatory risk - definition

•  Relative income hypothesis - definition

•  Rent - definition

•  Rent-seeking - definition

•  Replacement cost

•  Replacement rate

•  Repo - definition

•  Required return - definition

•  Rescheduling - definition

•  Reservation wage

•  Reserve currency - definition

•  Reserve currency

•  Reserve ratio - definition

•  Reserve requirements

•  Reserves

•  Residual risk

•  Restrictive practice - definition

•  Returns - definition

•  Revealed preference

•  Ricardian equivalence - definition

•  Ricardian equivalence

•  Ricardo, David

•  Risk - definition

•  Risk averse - definition

•  Risk management

•  Risk neutral - definition

•  Risk premium - definition

•  Risk seeking

•  Risk-free rate - definition

•  Safe harbor - definition

•  Satisficing - definition

•  Savings - definition

•  Say's law

•  Scalability - definition

•  Scarcity

•  Scenario analysis

•  Schumpeter, Joseph

•  SDR

•  Special Drawing Rights

•  Search costs

•  Seasonally adjusted - definition

•  Second-best theory

•  Secondary market

•  Securities - definition

•  Securities

•  Securitisation - definition

•  Seignorage - definition

•  Seller's market - definition

•  Seniority - definition

•  Sequencing - definition

•  Services - definition

•  Shadow price

•  Shareholder value - definition

•  Shares - definition

•  Sharpe ratio - definition

•  Sharpe ratio

•  Shock - definition

•  Short-termism - definition

•  Shorting - definition

•  Shorting

•  Signalling - definition

•  Signalling

•  Simple interest - definition

•  Smith, Adam

•  Social benefits/costs

•  Social capital

•  Social market

•  Socialism - definition

•  Soft currency - definition

•  Soft dollars - definition

•  Soft loan

•  Sovereign risk - definition

•  Sovereign risk

•  Speculation - definition

•  Speculative motive - definition

•  Spot price - definition

•  Spread - definition

•  Stabilisation - definition

•  Stability and Growth Pact

•  Stagflation - definition

•  Stagnation - definition

•  Stagnation

•  Stakeholders - definition

•  Standard deviation

•  Standard error - definition

•  Standard error

•  Statistical significance

•  Sterilised intervention

•  Sticky prices

•  Stochastic process

•  Stocks - definition

•  Stocks

•  Stress-testing

•  Structural adjustment

•  Structural unemployment

•  Subsidy - definition

•  Subsidies

•  Substitute goods

•  Substitution effect - definition

•  Sunk costs - definition

•  Supply

•  Supply curve

•  Supply-side economics

•  Supply-side policies

•  Sustainable growth - definition

•  Sustainable growth

•  Swap - definition

•  Swap

•  Systematic risk - definition

•  Systemic risk - definition

•  Tangible assets - definition

•  Tariff

•  Tariff - definition

•  Tax arbitrage

•  Tax avoidance

•  Tax base

•  Tax burden

•  Tax competition - definition

•  Tax competition

•  Tax efficient

•  Tax evasion - definition

•  Tax haven - definition

•  Tax incidence

•  Taxation economics

•  Terms of trade

•  Third way - definition

•  Tick - definition

•  Tiger economies

•  Time series

•  Time value of money

•  Tobin, James

•  Total return

•  Trade - definition

•  Trade area - definition

•  Trade cycle

•  Trade deficit

•  Trade surplus

•  Trade unions

•  Trade-weighted exchange rate

•  Tragedy of the commons

•  Transaction costs - definition

•  Transfer pricing - definition

•  Transfers - definition

•  Transition economies

•  Transmission mechanism - definition

•  Transparency

•  Treasury bills

•  Trough - definition

•  Trust - definition

•  Uncertainty

•  Underground economy

•  Unemployment

•  Unemployment trap

•  Unions

•  Usury - definition

•  Utility - definition

•  Value added - definition

•  Value at risk - definition

•  Variable costs

•  Velocity of circulation

•  Venture capital

•  Vertical equity - definition

•  Vertical integration - definition

•  Visible trade

•  Volatility - definition

•  Voluntary unemployment

•  Wage drift

•  Wages - definition

•  Wealth effect - definition

•  Wealth tax

•  Weightless economy

•  Welfare

•  Welfare economics

•  Welfare to work

•  Windfall gains - definition

•  Windfall profit - definition

•  Winner-takes-all markets

•  Withholding tax

•  World Bank

•  World Trade Organisation

•  X-efficiency - definition

•  Yield

•  Yield curve

•  Yield gap - definition

•  Zero-sum game - definition