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Mundell–Tobin effect The suggests that nominal interest rates would rise less than one-for-one with inflation because in response to inflation the public would hold less in money balances and more in other assets, which would drive interest rates down. In other words, an increase in the exogenous growth rate of money i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4117594 |
Series 6 exam In the United States, the investment company products/variable life contracts representative exam, is commonly referred to as the Series 6 exam. Individuals passing this multiple choice exam are licensed to sell a limited set of securities products: A Series 6 registered individual is not a stockbroker si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4118476 |
Annual percentage yield (APY) is a normalized representation of an interest rate, based on a compounding period of one year. APY figures allow a reasonable, single-point comparison of different offerings with varying compounding schedules. However, it does not account for the possibility of account fees affecting the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4118654 |
Annual percentage yield For financial institutions in the United States, the calculation of the APY and the related annual percentage yield earned are regulated by the FDIC Truth in Savings Act of 1991: The calculation method is defined as Algebraically, this is equivalent to Here | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4118654 |
Exchange offer An exchange offer, in finance, corporate law and securities law, is a form of tender offer, in which securities are offered as consideration instead of cash. In a bond exchange offer, bondholders may consensually exchange their existing bonds for another class of debt or equity securities. Companies will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4119534 |
Lerman ratio The Lerman ratio, named after economist Robert I. Lerman, suggest that a government benefit to the underemployed, such as welfare, will presumably reduce their overall hours of work. The ratio of the actual increase in income compared to the benefit is the Lerman ratio, which is ordinarily between zero and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4119994 |
Beggar thy neighbour In economics, a beggar-thy-neighbour policy is an economic policy through which one country attempts to remedy its economic problems by means that tend to worsen the economic problems of other countries. Adam Smith made reference to the term in claiming that mercantilist economic doctrine taught na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4121015 |
Beggar thy neighbour An early 20th-century appearance of the term is seen in the title of a work on economics from the early period of the Great Depression: The phrase is in widespread use, as seen in such publications as "The Economist" and "BBC News". "Beggar thy neighbour" strategies of this kind are not limited to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4121015 |
Beggar thy neighbour The competing firm will have no incentive to enter the market once the competitor has the advantage and thus will be deterred. However, with a strategic trade policy of an export subsidy, the matrix changes as the protecting government covers some of the costs. The matrix now changes from (−5,−5) t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4121015 |
List of unsolved problems in economics This is a list of some of the major unsolved problems, puzzles, or questions in economics. Some of these are theoretical in origin and some of them concern the inability of orthodox economic theory to explain an empirical observation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4122187 |
G3 Free Trade Agreement The G-3 was a free trade agreement between Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela that came into effect on January 1, 1995, which created an extended market of 149 million consumers with a combined GDP (Gross domestic product) of US$486.5 billion. The agreement states a ten percent tariff reduction ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4127921 |
Heating system A heating system is a mechanism for maintaining temperatures at an acceptable level; by using thermal energy within a home, office, or other dwelling. Often part of an HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) system. A heating system may be a central heating system or distributed. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4130399 |
Travel cost analysis The travel cost method of economic valuation, travel cost analysis, or Clawson method is a revealed preference method of economic valuation used in cost–benefit analysis to calculate the value of something that cannot be obtained through market prices (i.e. national parks, beaches, ecosystems). The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4140772 |
Travel cost analysis ) Visit rate: The number of visitors from a given zone/The population of that zone Visit rate from given zone = f(cost from given zone) VR=a+b.C | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4140772 |
Soft loan A soft loan is a loan with a below-market rate of interest. This is also known as "soft financing". Sometimes soft loans provide other concessions to borrowers, such as long repayment periods or interest holidays. Soft loans are usually provided by governments to projects they think are worthwhile. The World ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4141239 |
Market abuse may arise in circumstances where financial market investors have been unreasonably disadvantaged, directly or indirectly, by others who: Market Abuse is split into two different aspects (under EU definitions): In 2013/2014, the EU updated its legislation on market abuse, and harmonised criminal sanctions. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4141703 |
Certified Funds In the United States and Canada, are a form of payment that is guaranteed to clear or settle by the company certifying the funds. When making certain types of transactions, such as purchasing real property, motor vehicles and other items that require title, the seller usually requires a guarantee that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4144462 |
National Center for Appropriate Technology The (NCAT) is an American organization headquartered in Butte, Montana, that is dedicated to appropriate technology and sustainability. Projects specifically deal with sustainable energy, sustainable agriculture and food, sustainable living, farm energy, and climate change. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4145968 |
National Center for Appropriate Technology ATTRA was originally an acronym for "Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas" which has since fallen out of use and is just "ATTRA". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4145968 |
Dynamic asset allocation is a strategy used by investment products such as hedge funds, mutual funds, credit derivatives, index funds, principal protected notes (also known as guaranteed linked notes) and other structured investment products to achieve exposure to various investment opportunities and provide 100% princ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4152397 |
Dynamic asset allocation 50% S&P 500/ 50% Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index + 200). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4152397 |
Smoothing In statistics and image processing, to smooth a data set is to create an approximating function that attempts to capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise or other fine-scale structures/rapid phenomena. In smoothing, the data points of a signal are modified so individual points higher th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4155662 |
Smoothing In the case of simple series of data points (rather than a multi-dimensional image), the convolution kernel is a one-dimensional vector. One of the most common algorithms is the "moving average", often used to try to capture important trends in repeated statistical surveys. In image processing and computer vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4155662 |
Non-corporate credit Non-Corporate Credit is a catch-all term used to include types of bonds that are forms of credit, but not issued by private corporations - and therefore cannot be considered corporate debt. Non-Corporate Credit generally includes sovereign debt, regional governments and government agencies in a cur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4156391 |
Round-tripping (finance) Round-tripping, also known as round-trip transactions or "Lazy Susans", is defined by "The Wall Street Journal" as a form of barter that involves a company selling "an unused asset to another company, while at the same time agreeing to buy back the same or similar assets at about the same price... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4158153 |
Round-tripping (finance) These transactions had the effect of inflating profits. The SEC ruled that booking revenues from swaps in telecommunications capacity was improper. Many such companies have used round-tripping to distort the market by establishing false revenue benchmarks, aiming to meet or beat the numbers put... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4158153 |
PSA prepayment model The PSA Prepayment Model is a prepayment scale developed by the Public Securities Association in 1985 for analyzing American mortgage-backed securities. The PSA model assumes increasing prepayment rates for the first 30 months after mortgage origination and a constant prepayment rate thereafter. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4159673 |
BiPu BIPU (Bioremediation Infield Personnel Unit) is a sanitation method suitable for disaster relief and for temporary or isolated locations. It consists of flat-packed plastic panels which fit together to make a box, which is buried in the ground, and a large plastic bag to be placed inside the box. It is quick to se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4168374 |
Cost of funds index A cost of funds index or COFI is a regional average of interest expenses incurred by financial institutions, which in turn is used as a base for calculating variable rate loans. The interest rate on an adjustable rate mortgage, for example, is often linked to a regional COFI specified in the particu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4198742 |
Industrial production index The Industrial Production Index (IPI) is an economic indicator published by the Federal Reserve Board of the United States that measures the real production output of manufacturing, mining, and utilities. Production indexes are computed mainly as fisher indexes with the weights based on annu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4199619 |
Reference date (United States business cycles) The reference dates of the United States' business cycles are determined by the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which looks at various coincident indicators such as real GDP, real personal income, employment, and sales to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4199655 |
The World Economy: Historical Statistics is a landmark book by Angus Maddison. Published in 2004 by the OECD Development Centre, it studies the growth of populations and economies across the centuries: not just the world economy as it is now, but how it was in the past. Among other things, it showed that Europe's gross... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4206155 |
Iqtisaduna Our Economy (Arabic: اقتصادنا"Iqtisaduna") is a major work on Islamic economics by prominent Shia cleric Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. Muhammad Baqir Al-Sadr was born on Kadhimiyeh, Baghdad in 1935. The book written between 1960 and 1961, and published in 1982, it is al-Sadr's main work on economics and one of his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4212276 |
Iqtisaduna Islamic economic included 'every basic rule of economic life connected with its ideology of social justice'. This doctrine based on Islamic beliefs, laws, sentiments, concepts and definitions drives from the sources of Islam. The first parts of is dedicated to the discussion of historical materialism such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4212276 |
Iqtisaduna is the greatest illustration of Sadr’s aggiornamento – bringing up to date – of classical Islamic law..." Ermin Sinanović, the Director of Research and Academic Programs at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), said: It is interesting to note that in Al-Sadr’s was more dominant in the Arab a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4212276 |
Tax-deductible loss According to the United States Internal Revenue Code certain losses are deductible for tax purposes. To qualify, the loss must not be compensated by insurance and it must be sustained during the taxable year. If the loss is a casualty or theft of the personal, family, or living property of the taxpa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4213637 |
International comparisons of trade unions Unions have been compared across countries by growth and decline patterns, by violence levels, and by kinds of political activity. In the mid-1950s, 36% of the United States labor force was unionized. At America's union peak in the 1950s, union membership was lower in the Unite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4215460 |
International comparisons of trade unions In other countries drops included: The General Confederation of Labour ("CGT") is a national trade union center, the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions. Until the 1990s it was closely linked to the French Communist Party (PCF). It is the largest in te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4215460 |
International comparisons of trade unions Labour unions emerged in Japan in the second half of the Meiji period, after 1890, as the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization. Until 1945, however, the labour movement remained weak, impeded by lack of legal rights, anti-union legislation, management-organized... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4215460 |
International comparisons of trade unions fell by 97% from 381 in 1970 to 187 in 1980 to only 11 in 2010. Companies countered the threat of a strike by threatening to close or move a plant. Labor unions first developed in Costa Rica in the late 1880s. The first unions were organized with the help of the Catholic Church... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4215460 |
International comparisons of trade unions Major concerns include salaries increased to reflect inflation, regulation of public commodities, and a stronger Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social (Costa Rican Social Security Department). Many labor unions are also asking for increased environmental regulation, and increase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4215460 |
International comparisons of trade unions One worker was killed and 1,009 were injured for every 100,000 strikers. Between 1877 and 1968, American state and federal troops intervened in labor disputes more than 160 times, almost invariably on behalf of employers. Business was disrupted, usually by strikes, on 22,793 oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4215460 |
Crossing network A crossing network is an alternative trading system (ATS) that matches buy and sell orders electronically for execution without first routing the order to an exchange or other displayed market, such as an electronic communication network (ECN), which displays a public quote. These broker-dealers employ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4219543 |
Great Contract The was a plan submitted to James I and Parliament in 1610 by Robert Cecil. It was an attempt to increase Crown income and ultimately rid it of debt. Cecil suggested that, in return for an annual grant of £200,000, the Crown should give up its feudal rights of Wardship and Purveyance, as well as the powe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4220599 |
Great Contract It is also important to consider how, at the point of Elizabeth's death, the Crown was £400,000 in debt, considering that Elizabeth ran a rather frugal court and was careful with money, and thus the financial problems of James' reign were not all of his own making. Furthermore, it must also be said that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4220599 |
Liquidity premium In economics, a liquidity premium is the explanation for a difference between two types of financial securities (e.g. stocks), that have all the same qualities except liquidity. It is a segment of a three-part theory that works to explain the behavior of yield curves for interest rates. The upwards-cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4242623 |
Liquidity premium Thus, the upper bound for the liquidity premium is priced as the difference between this maximum price during the restricted trading period and the security price at the end of this period. Abudy and Raviv (2016) extend this framework for the special case of corporate bonds by using a structural appro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4242623 |
Swan diagram In economics, a Swan Diagram, also known as the Australian model (because it was originally published by Australian economist Trevor Swan in 1956 to model the Australian economy during the Great Depression), represents the situation of a country with a currency peg. Two lines represent a country's respecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4243212 |
Swan diagram In order to cure the Current account deficit in the economy, we need to increase the exports by a devaluation, that would, in turn, help in increasing the employment by creating more jobs. For Current account surplus, we would overvalue the currency so that the exports are diminished. The zone above the eq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4243212 |
PATCOB (Professional, Administrative, Technical, Clerical, Other white collar, and Blue collar) are occupational categories established by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). They are used for statistical reporting on data collected by the United States Census Bureau, employer reports or federal agencies. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4251983 |
Sandy Cairncross Alexander "Sandy" Messent Cairncross OBE (born 8 March 1948) is an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He has an interest in environmental interventions for disease control, including both technical issues and policy. He is a member of the notable Cairncross fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4258384 |
Sandy Cairncross Cairncross has a PhD in soil mechanics from the University of Cambridge and has been at LSHTM on and off since 1977. Cairncross was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to environmental health overseas. In January 2014, Cairncross was awar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4258384 |
Dissaving is negative saving. If spending is greater than disposable income, dissaving is taking place. This spending is financed by already accumulated savings, such as money in a savings account, or it can be borrowed. was reported as a typical response to deficits, for households with normal income and expenditure p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4267820 |
Law of supply The law of supply is a fundamental principle of economic theory which states that, keeping other factors constant, an increase in price results in an increase in quantity supplied. In other words, there is a direct relationship between price and quantity: quantities respond in the same direction as price ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4270521 |
Stark and Fulton was an engineering company in Glasgow, Scotland. Little is known about the company except that it built some of the first steam locomotives for the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway and the Midland Counties Railway around 1840. For about four months, D B Stark was a loco superintendent of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4277474 |
Net premium valuation A net premium valuation is an actuarial calculation, used to place a value on the liabilities of a life insurer. It involves calculating a present value for the contractual liabilities of a contract, and deducting the value of future premiums. Both contractual liabilities, and future premiums in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4279574 |
Semiprofession A semiprofession is an occupation that requires advanced knowledge and skills but is not widely regarded as a true profession. Traditional examples of semiprofessions include social work, journalism, librarianship, teaching and nursing. Such fields often have less clear-cut barriers to entry than traditi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4291419 |
Semiprofession One group especially tied to this term, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), published a list of twelve checkpoints they believe help define a semiprofession. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4291419 |
Forced saving In economics, forced saving occurs when the spending of a person is less than their earnings, due to the consumer goods shortages which can cause hyperinflation. can also happen when available goods are too expensive, therefore a person who has no access to credit has to accumulate the money for their pur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4310360 |
Forced saving Two main problems can be distributional effects, and also recessions. • Distributional Effects Forced savings encounters problems with distribution effects as it can result in uncertainty in who receives the money that is entering the economy, and also unease about who will receive more purchasing power a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4310360 |
Gross dealer concession Gross Dealer Concession or GDC is the revenue to a brokerage firm when commissioned securities and insurance salespeople sell a product, whether it is an investment like stocks, bonds, or mutual funds, or insurance like life insurance or long term care insurance. The commission that the agent re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4322194 |
Bachelor of Economics The (BEc or BEcon) is a four-year academic degree in the social sciences field of commerce and includes the study of microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, economic statistics, history of economic thought and political economy. Some universities offer undergraduate degree students the oppor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4337860 |
Master of Economics The is a postgraduate master's degree in economics (M.Econ., M.Ec.; also MS in Economics, MA in Economics, MCom in Economics) comprising training in economic theory, econometrics and / or applied economics. The degree may be offered as a terminal degree or as additional preparation for doctoral stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4337868 |
Master of Economics Some (doctoral) programs include core work in economic history. The optional or additional coursework will depend on the program's emphasis. In theory-focused degrees, and those preparing students for doctoral work, this coursework is often in these same core topics, but in greater depth. In termina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4337868 |
Scitovsky paradox The is a paradox in welfare economics which is resolved by stating that there is no increase in social welfare by a return to the original part of the losers. It is named after the Hungarian born American economist, Tibor Scitovsky. According to Scitovsky, Kaldor-Hicks criterion involves contradictory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4345588 |
Journal of Economic Literature The is a peer-reviewed academic journal, published by the American Economic Association, that surveys the academic literature in economics. It was established in 1963 as the "Journal of Economic Abstracts", and is currently one of the highest ranked journals in economics. As a review jour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4345796 |
Econometric Theory is an economics journal specialising in econometrics, published by Cambridge Journals. Its current editor is Peter Phillips. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4346343 |
Northern California War Tax Resistance (NCWTR) is an activist group in the San Francisco bay area that promotes tax resistance as a way to protest against and/or disassociate from war and militarism. Despite the "Northern California" in the name, the group has a smaller, bay-area-specific focus, and there are other gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4348289 |
Signature line of credit A signature line of credit is a revolving line of credit that is not backed by collateral; i.e., the sole criterion for the decision to grant the loan and establish the terms thereof is an assessment of the customer's credit rating. Also known as an unsecured line of credit. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4351049 |
Government financial statements are annual financial statements or reports for the year. The financial statements, in contrast to budget, present the revenue collected and amounts spent. The government financial statements usually include a statement of activities (similar to an income statement in the private sector),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4360932 |
Government financial statements At the state and local level of the United States, the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) make the accounting and financial rules. A major change came in June 1999 when GASB introduced accrual and consolidated rules with fund accounting taking a secondary role. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4360932 |
Mortgage cashback Some mortgage lenders, particularly in the United Kingdom, give a one-off lump sum payment to new borrowers at the beginning of a mortgage. Called cashback, this lump sum is often marketed as free cash, but it is in fact funded by the mortgage interest paid by the borrower. The size of the lump sum is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4368060 |
Ilm Al-Iqtisad ("The Subject of Economics") was a book written by Muhammad Iqbal, the great poet-philosopher of the Indian subcontinent. It was published in 1903. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4371604 |
Vytautas Andrius Graičiūnas (August 17, 1898 in Chicago – January 9, 1952 in Olzheras, Siberia) was a Lithuanian management theorist, management consultant, and engineer and was a known expert in his field. Born to Lithuanian immigrants, he studied at the University of Chicago. During World War I served in France. Afte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4379466 |
Vytautas Andrius Graičiūnas He also lectured at the Vytautas Magnus University and was awarded Commander's Cross of Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. During World War II Graičiūnas decided to remain in Lithuania despite clear threats of the occupation by the Soviet Union. In 1951 while visiting Moscow with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4379466 |
Process Specification Language The (PSL) is a set of logic terms used to describe processes. The logic terms are specified in an ontology that provides a formal description of the components and their relationships that make up a process. The ontology was developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4402909 |
National Occupational Classification The NOC is used by students, workers, employers, career and vocational counsellors, educational and training organizations. The first Edition of the NOC was published in 1992, and a Second Revised Edition was offered in 2001. Further minor revisions were made in 2006. The 2011 revis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4413234 |
Dynamic factor In econometrics, a dynamic factor (also known as a diffusion index) is a series which measures the co-movement of many time series. It is used in certain macroeconomic models. A diffusion index is intended to indicate Formally where formula_2 is the vector of lagged factors of the variables in the formul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4414213 |
Dynamic factor Some researchers have reported that a diffusion index of monthly manufacturing-sector employment is a leading indicator of turning points in the business cycle. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4414213 |
The Japanese Economic Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics published since 1959 by the Japanese Economic Association. It was formerly called "The Economic Studies Quarterly". According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.351, ranking it 275th out of 333 journa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4414584 |
Wold's theorem In statistics, Wold's decomposition or the Wold representation theorem (not to be confused with the Wold theorem that is the discrete-time analog of the Wiener–Khinchin theorem), named after Herman Wold, says that every covariance-stationary time series formula_1 can be written as the sum of two time ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4415141 |
Wold's theorem However, when formula_15 is merely an uncorrelated but not independent sequence, then the linear model exists but it is not the only representation of the dynamic dependence of the series. In this latter case, it is possible that the linear model may not be very useful, and there would be a nonlinear mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4415141 |
Semiparametric model In statistics, a semiparametric model is a statistical model that has parametric and nonparametric components. A statistical model is a parameterized family of distributions: formula_1 indexed by a parameter formula_2. It may appear at first that semiparametric models include nonparametric models, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4415208 |
Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) is the representative body for Scotland's financial services industry. It is a company limited by guarantee based in Edinburgh. Member companies range in size from global organisations headquartered in Scotland to small, locally-based support companies drawn from all areas of financi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4423332 |
Scottish Financial Enterprise They work closely with governments at all levels to exchange information, provide advice and views and promote the work of the industry. SFE also works with their members to formulate responses to government consultations in policy areas which affect the financial services industry. SFE al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4423332 |
MarketWatch is a left leaning website that provides financial information, business news, analysis, and stock market data. Along with "The Wall Street Journal" and "Barron's", it is a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, a property of News Corp. Notable contributors include Mark Hulbert and Francine McKenna. The company ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4429833 |
Party service A party service is an industry that furnishes supplies and personnel to meet the needs of party hosts. A party services business is typically a local company or an agency. A party or event planner is someone who coordinates all aspects of professional meetings and events. Party planners conceive, organize... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4430322 |
Threshold price-point In economics, a threshold price point is the psychological fixing of prices to entice a buyer up to a certain threshold at which the buyer will be lost anyway. The most common example in the United States is the $??.99 phenomenon—e.g. setting the price for a good at $9.99. Though it is effectively... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4431443 |
TIBOR stands for the Tokyo Interbank Offered Rate and is a daily reference rate based on the interest rates at which banks offer to lend "unsecured" funds to other banks in the Japan wholesale money market (or interbank market). is published daily by the Japanese Bankers Association (JBA). is calculated based on the qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4431757 |
Conceptual economy is a term describing the contribution of creativity, innovation, and design skills to economic competitiveness, especially in the global context. Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, recognized the role of conceptual output as early as 1997 in a speech at the University of Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4433535 |
Conceptual economy Other contributors to our understanding of the conceptual economy include Tom Friedman who describes the opportunities of globalization in his book "The World is Flat". He emphasizes the importance of the internet and personal computers for communications and software sharing across the globe. This e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4433535 |
Conceptual economy Here there is an increasing need for artists, designers and creative authors to contribute not only to product design but also to business management and strategic planning. Areas deserving particular attention are related to three key developments: For the past 15 or 20 years, the Western economies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4433535 |
Conceptual economy In industry too, the development of robotics and automated manufacturing facilities means that opportunities for traditional jobs in industries such as automobile manufacturing and food processing are also diminishing. Ever higher levels of qualification are now required to contribute to operations t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4433535 |
Conceptual economy Prosperity and competitiveness in the 21st century will depend on an understanding of diverse national cultures and how to draw on their ideas in order to assist the innovation process. Here too, there will be a need for more extensive teamwork, creativity and leading-edge thinking, all in the contex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4433535 |
Labour Leader's Office Fund The was a blind trust established and run by Lord Levy to finance Tony Blair's work in opposition before the 1997 general election. Contributors to it included the millionaires Sir Trevor Chinn, Sir Emmanuel Kaye, Alex Bernstein and Bob Gavron, the latter two of whom later received peerages. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4433889 |
Cash out refinancing (in the case of real property) occurs when a loan is taken out on property already owned, and the loan amount is above and beyond the cost of transaction, payoff of existing liens, and related expenses. Strictly speaking, all refinancing of debt is "cash-out," when funds retrieved are utilized for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4435550 |
Cash out refinancing Loan-to-value limits, and other factors in loan approval determine how much cash can be taken out from the equity of any one property. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4435550 |
Implementation shortfall In financial markets, implementation shortfall is the difference between the decision price and the final execution price (including commissions, taxes, etc.) for a trade. This is also known as the "slippage". Agency trading is largely concerned with minimizing implementation shortfall and find... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4438311 |
Implementation shortfall There is no common definition of this price, but the broker normally uses the last traded price or the "mid price" - equal to the average of the current bid and ask prices being quoted at the time the order was received. Brokerage firms specialize in developing algorithmic strategies, and provi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4438311 |
Humanistic economics is a distinct pattern of economic thought with old historical roots that have been more recently invigorated by E. F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (1973). Proponents argue for "persons-first" economic theories as opposed to mainstream economic theories which are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4440254 |
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