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Pertaining to the system or range of economic activity in a country, region, or community.
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capital markets
Economy; Economics
Markets in securities such as bonds and shares. Governments and companies use them to raise longer-term capital from investors, although few of the millions of capital-market ...
capital intensive
Economy; Economics
A production process that involves comparatively large amounts of capital; the opposite of labor intensive.
capital gains
Economy; Economics
The profit from the sale of a capital asset, such as a share or a property. Capital gains are subject to taxation in most countries. Some economists argue that capital gains ...
capital flight
Economy; Economics
When capital flows rapidly out of a country, usually because something happens which causes investors suddenly to lose confidence in its economy. (Strictly speaking, the problem ...
capital controls
Economy; Economics
Government-imposed restrictions on the ability of capital to move in or out of a country. Examples include limits on foreign investment in a country’s financial markets, on direct ...
capital asset pricing model (CAMP)
Economy; Economics
A method of valuing assets and calculating the cost of capital (for an alternative, see arbitrage pricing theory). The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) has come to dominate ...
capital adequacy ratio
Economy; Economics
The ratio of a bank’s capital to its total assets, required by regulators to be above a minimum (“adequate”) level so that there is little risk of the bank going bust. How high ...
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