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Tiger economies
Economy; Economics
The fast-growing developing economies of Asia, at least before their crisis in the late 1990s.
Time series
Economy; Economics
Several measurements of a variable taken at regular intervals, such as daily, monthly, quarterly, and so on. They are often used by economists in search of trends that they hope will let them predict ...
Time value of money
Economy; Economics
The idea that a dollar today is worth more than a dollar in the future, because the dollar in the hand today can earn interest during the time until the future dollar is received.
Total return
Economy; Economics
The sum of all the different benefits from investing in an asset, including income paid to the investor and any change in the market value of the asset. The total return is often expressed as a ...
Trade area
Economy; Economics
In a globalising economy, it is perhaps surprising that countries increasingly trade with their nearest neighbors. One explanation is geography: as countries have lowered their tariff barriers, the ...
Trade deficit/surplus
Economy; Economics
An excess of imports over exports is a trade deficit. An excess of exports over imports is a trade surplus. (See balance of payments. )
Trade-weighted exchange rate
Economy; Economics
A country's exchange rate with the currencies of its trading partners weighted by the amount of trade done by the country in each currency.
