MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO CONSUME - MPC
Component of Keynesian theory; proportion of the total raise in pay which is spent on goods and services, instead of being saved. To get MPC, divide the change in the consumption by the incremental change in disposable income that caused the consumption change.
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Direct Repurchase
It is the buying of share in a publicly-traded company by the company itself. It reduces the number of shares outstanding, thereby inflating (posit ...
Adjusted Present Value - APV
A business NPV or Net Present Value in case it is financed exclusively by equity along with any financing advantage (the supplementary effects of d ...
Coskewness
Statistical measure used in computing the symmetry of a variable’s probability distribution relative to another variable. Given that all thin ...
Rule Of 78
A method of allocating the interest charge on a loan across its payment periods. Under the Rule of 78, periods are weighted by comparing their nume ...
Gilts
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