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AP Economics Chapter 27 Flashcards

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9109970289financethe field that studies how people make decisions regarding the allocation of resources over time and the handling of risk.0
9109970290present valuethe amount of money today that would be needed, using prevailing interest rates, to produce a given future amount of money.1
9109970291future valuethe amount of money in the future that an amount of money today will yield, given prevailing interest rates.2
9109970292compoundingthe accumulation of a sum of money in, say, a bank account where the interest earned remains in the account to earn additional interest in the future.3
9109970293risk aversionthe tendency to choose options that entail fewer risks and less uncertainty, the willingness to sacrifice some economic payoff in order to avoid a potential loss4
9109970294diversificationthe reduction of risk achieved by replacing a single risk with a large number of smaller unrelated risks.5
9109970295firm-specific riskrisk that affects only a single economic actor.6
9109970296market riskrisk that affects all economic actors at once.7
9109970297fundamental analysisthe study of a company's accounting statements and future prospects to determine its value.8
9109970298efficient markets hypothesisthe theory according to which asset prices reflect all publicly available information about the value of an asset.9
9109970299informationally efficientreflecting all available information in a rational way.10
9109970300random walkthe path of a variable whose changes are hard to predict.11

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