Financial Markets, Banking, and Monetary Policy

Index

• ABCP. See Asset-backed commercial paper
• ABSs. See Asset-backed securities
• Accrual loss
• ACH. See Automated clearinghouse
• Actual cash flows, from mortgages
• Actual output
• Adjustable pegs
• Adjustable-rate mortgages
• Advances, Reserve Banks and
• Adverse feedback loop
• Adverse selection problem
  • annuities and
  • securitization and
• Age, earnings, and spending profile
• Aggregate consumption
• Aggregate demand
  • categories of
  • inflation and
  • interest rates and
  • monetary policy and
  • mortgage market and transmission of monetary policy to
  • shocks to
  • shortfall in output and
  • wealth loss and downward shift in
• Aggregate P-E ratio
• Aggregate supply
  • inflation and
  • shocks to
  • shortfall in output and
• AIG
• Alt-A mortgages
• Alternative investments
• Amazon
• Amgen
• Amortization:
  • commercial mortgages
  • home mortgages
• Amortized cost basis for pricing money market mutual fund shares
• Amortized loans
• Anchor currency
• Angel investors
• “Animal spirits”
• Annual percentage rate
• Annuities
• Apple
• Appreciation, of currency
• APR. See Annual percentage rate
• Arbitrage
• ARMs. See Adjustable-rate mortgages
• Asked price
• Asset-backed commercial paper
• Asset-backed securities:
  • auto lenders and
  • business credit and
  • common features of
  • credit cards and
  • financial crisis of 2008 and
  • structured securities and
• Asset bubbles
• Asset prices, portfolio risk and
• Assets. See also Portfolio selection
  • commercial bank balance sheet
  • current price of
  • providing uneven cash flows, calculating with financial calculator
• Asset values, financial crises ...