financial economics

noun [U] ECONOMICS, FINANCE

Definition

› the part of economics that deals with financial markets, shares, etc., rather than trade in goods and services: According to the principles of financial economics, in the long term and in general, the markets are always right.

(Definition of financial economics noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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