The role of this glossary is to present brief definitions of most of the key concepts in economics and finance (in total 1064 names-definitions) as well as security markets (financial, capital, money) with aim the reader to be able to understand and become familiar with the terminology in the analyses that will present in the category economics.
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Glossary Economics & Finance
There are currently 9 names in this directory beginning with the letter W.
Wage inflationis named the annual rate of growth of nominal wages.
Wash saleis named the sale and the subsequent purchase of a "substantially identical" security solely for the purpose of generating a tax-deductible capital loss.
Weak form market effciencyis named a version of market efficiency in which all previous security price data is fully and immediately reflected in current security prices.
Wealthis named the sum of inherited assets or debts and the present value of current and future incomes.
Wealth elasticity of demandis named the wealth elasticity of demand which measures how much, given all the rest are constant, demand for an asset changes in percentage terms in response to a percentage change in wealth.
White Knightis named a firm which is positively disposed toward a target firm's current management which during the procedure of a hostile takeover of that corporation he agrees to make a better offer to the corporation's stockholder.
World Bank (The International Bank for Reconstruction and Redevelopment)is named an institution which established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 with aim to assist developing countries with long-term loans at concessionary rates which financed through international bond issues.
Worst Leasing Streakis named an empirical form of risk measure for the long-horizon abnormal market. Risk Metrics define Worst Losing Streak as the total loss (% or unit base) that would arise if the largest drop in asset price, from peak to trough, during the last five years were to repeat. The definition is like that of Worst-Case Performance, except that no predetermined time horizon is required.
Worst-case performanceis named the total loss (% or unit base) that can arise if the worst 3-month, 6-month, 12-months horizon equally during a given historical period were to arise again.
