Information sheets: economic terms and concepts

Each information sheet is available as a pdf file.

  1. What is the economy / economics ?
  2. What is monetary policy ?
  3. Fiscal policy
  4. Inflation
  5. Growth
  6. Gross domestic product
  7. Activity rate, employment rate, unemployment rate, etc.
  8. The business cycle
  9. National accounts
  10. The Lisbon Strategy
  11. Who creates money ?
  12. Seigniorage
  13. The foreign exchange reserves
  14. The key ECB interest rates
  15. Intraday credit
  16. Lender of last resort
  17. The financial markets
  18. The balance of payments
  19. The Bretton Woods institutions
  20. Multilateral groups
  21. The Belgian IMF constituency
  22. The Stability and Growth Pact
  23. The Basel II Accords
  24. The pension systems
  25. The World Economic Forum
  26. The Central Council for the Economy