Financial Theory Terms

  1. Population

  2. Portable Alpha

  3. Porter Diamond

  4. Porter's 5 Forces

  5. Portfolio Lender

  6. Post-Modern Portfolio Theory - PMPT

  7. Poverty

  8. Power-Distance Index - PDI

  9. Pre-Funded Bond

  10. Predatory Pricing

  11. Preferred Creditor

  12. Prepayment Model

  13. Prepayment Privilege

  14. Present Value - PV

  15. Present Value Interest Factor - PVIF

  16. Price Ceiling

  17. Price Efficiency

  18. Price Level

  19. Price Level Targeting

  20. Price Risk

  21. Price Skimming

  22. Price Stickiness

  23. Price Tension

  24. Price-Taker

  25. Price-To-Research Ratio - PRR

  26. Principal-Agent Problem

  27. Prisoner's Dilemma

  28. Private Equity

  29. Private Good

  30. Pro-Rata Tranche

  31. Probability Distribution

  32. Problem Child

  33. Process Value Analysis - PVA

  34. Product Placement

  35. Production Volume Variance

  36. Productivity

  37. Profit/Loss Ratio

  38. Profitability Index

  39. Project Finance

  40. Proportional Spread

  41. Protest Divestment

  42. Public Good

  43. Pump Priming

  44. Purchase Fund

  45. Purchasing Managers Index - PMI

  46. Purchasing Power Loss/Gain

  47. Purchasing Power Parity - PPP

  48. Pure Risk

  49. Push On A String

  50. Put-Call Parity

  51. Pyramiding

  52. Q Ratio (Tobin's Q Ratio)

  53. Quantity Demanded

  54. Quartile

  55. Radner Equilibrium

  56. Ragnar Frisch

  57. Random Variable

  58. Random Walk Theory

  59. Rate Level Risk

  60. Rate Of Return

  61. Rational Behavior

  62. Rational Pricing

  63. Real Bills Doctrine

  64. Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit - REMIC

  65. Real Option

  66. Recognition Lag

  67. Recoupling

  68. Recursive Competitive Equilibrium - RCE

  69. Refi Bubble

  70. Reflexivity

  71. Regression

  72. Regulatory Risk

  73. Reinvestment Risk

  74. Remittance Float

  75. Renewable Resource

  76. Rescaled Range Analysis

  77. Research Analyst

  78. Reservable Deposit

  79. Residual Dividend

  80. Response Lag

  81. Revealed Preference

  82. Reverse Survivorship Bias

  83. Ricardo-Barro Effect

  84. Ringfencing

  85. Ripple

  86. Risk Analysis

  87. Risk Assessment

  88. Risk Curve

  89. Risk Lover

  90. Risk Management

  91. Risk Neutral

  92. Risk Parity

  93. Risk Premium

  94. Risk Seeking

  95. Risk-Free Asset

  96. Risk-Free Rate Of Return

  97. Risk-On Risk-Off

  98. Risk-Return Tradeoff

  99. RiskGrades - RG

  100. Robert F. Engle III

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