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Monday, July 23, 2012

Simple Descriptions of Some Terms in Finance

Orcun Kahyaoglu


Direct Finance

Direct finance is the financial transaction between the lender and the borrower without using financial intermediation. The cost of underwriting is removed by selling the securities directly.

Financial Intermediation

Financial intermediation is a term that defines the process of what the financial intermediaries do. Financial intermediaries are the financial institutions that link surplus and deficit. In other words, they are the serving between lenders and borrowers for raising funds.

Capital Markets

It is the market where companies and governments raise funds that have periods longer than one year.

Secondary Markets

It is the market where the securities are sold and bought after the first issuers’ place. For example, U.S. Treasury issues bonds and these bonds are sold and bought at stock markets, which is a secondary market.  

Moral Hazard

Moral hazard is a term that is the encouragement to take risky or reckless action that arises when your losses are insured by someone else.

Systematic Risk

It is the intrinsic risk of the entire financial market.

Adverse Selection

It is the term originates when the buyers and sellers have different information. The results occurred are dreadful when the two sides have asymmetric information.

Gresham’s Law

Assume that there are two types of coins; one carries 1 gram gold let say it A and the other carries 1 gram silver let say it be B. Both A and B has a $100 face value; i.e., both of them have the same value. But people tend to spend B and save A because A has gold in it, which makes it more valuable in people’s mind. So the bad money drives out the good money.

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