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1. Anything that serves the three basic purposes of money: medium of exchange; store of value; unit of account. 2. In modern economies, a currency issued by an agency of government. 3. As an adjective, "money" refers to the value of something denominated in the prevailing currency and not corrected for inflation; contrasts with real.
Industry:Economy
A money supply that is larger than people want to hold at prevailing prices, perhaps because of shortages or rationing of goods in the past. This was said to be a major cause of inflation in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, which left an excess of money in circulation.
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A market structure in which there are many sellers each producing a differentiated product. Each can set its own price and quantity, but is too small for that to matter for prices and quantities of other producers in the industry.
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A market structure in which there is a single buyer. Term introduced in Robinson (1932).
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A loan the collateral for which is a house or other real estate. I would not have thought this term needed to appear in a glossary of international economics, until 2008 when we learned that mortgage-backed securities had been traded internationally and were contributing to the global financial crisis when borrowers defaulted.
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A financial instrument that packages the ownership of shares in a large number of mortgages.
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A free-trade equilibrium in the Heckscher-Ohlin Model in which prices are such that all goods cannot be produced within a single country, and instead there are multiple diversification cones. This, or a two cone equilibrium, will arise if countries' factor endowments are sufficiently dissimilar compared to factor intensities of industries. Contrasts with one cone equilibrium.
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A model with more than two factors. In the context of trade theory this is likely to mean a Heckscher-Ohlin Model with more than two factors.
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An agreement (OMA) among developed country importers and developing country exporters of textiles and apparel to regulate and restrict the quantities traded. It was negotiated in 1973 under GATT auspices as a temporary exception to the rules that would otherwise apply, and was superseded in 1995 by the ATC.
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