Economics #5

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Across
  1. 6. - An investment vehicle that is made up of a pool of funds collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities such as stocks, bonds, money market instruments and similar assets.
  2. 7. - value is the anticipated pleasure involved in the performance of a particular behavior, such as eating a particular food or drinking a particular beverage
  3. 8. - a bank that offers services to the general public and to companies.
  4. 9. - measures or disincentives are mechanisms designed to discourage activities that are harmful for biodiversity.
  5. 10. - A status when a country or nation attains more exported goods than it has of imported goods.
  6. 13. - An economic occurrence where a country imports more than their total exports per capita. Also called trade deficit.
  7. 17. - the value of one currency for the purpose of conversion to another.
  8. 18. - the practice of protecting domestic industries from foreign competition by imposing import duties or quotas.
  9. 19. - NAFTA
  10. 21. - A country's exchange rate regime where its currency is set by the foreign-exchange market through supply and demand for that particular currency relative to other currencies.
  11. 22. - a type of exchange rate regime where a currency's value is fixed against either the value of another single currency, to a basket of other currencies, or to another measure of value, such as gold.
  12. 24. - is a multi-step process for making choices between alternatives.
Down
  1. 1. - group of European countries that participates in the world economy as one economic unit and operates under one official currency, euro.
  2. 2. - The average amount of interest earned on an insurer's investments after investment expense and before income taxes.
  3. 3. - simply the difference between the value of exports and value of imports.
  4. 4. - A contractual agreement in which a borrower receives something of value now and agrees to repay the lender at some date in the future, generally with interest
  5. 5. ASEAN
  6. 11. - A financial institution that resembles a bank but that historically did not offer services such as personal checking accounts and that invested capital mainly in home mortgages.
  7. 12. - The gain or loss of a security in a particular period. Consists of the income and the capital gains relative on an investment. It is usually quoted as a percentage.
  8. 14. - a nonprofit-making money cooperative whose members can borrow from pooled deposits at low interest rates.
  9. 15. - The unobstructed trade of goods and services between two countries with no restrictions on imports and exports
  10. 16. - An amount of money borrowed by one party from another
  11. 18. - The value of a currency expressed in terms of the amount of goods or services that one unit of money can buy.
  12. 20. - the potential of losing something of value
  13. 23. - The period of a person's life during which he/she is no longer working, or the commencement of that period