Regulation
A comprehensive overview of regulation in economics, including its purpose, methods, and various frameworks.
Regulatory Agency
A body set up to decide on and enforce regulations, often independent from direct government control.
Regulatory Capital
The minimum capital required for banks and other financial services institutions by a regulator, such as a central bank or an international supervisory body.
Regulatory Capture
The tendency of regulators to identify with the interest of the industry they are supposed to regulate.
Rejection Region
The rejection region is a statistical concept used in hypothesis testing, referring to the range of values that leads to the rejection of the null hypothesis.
Rejection Rule
A decision rule for rejecting the null hypothesis in favour of the alternative based on test statistics or p-values.
Relative Income Hypothesis
The theory that savings behaviour is affected by an individual's relative position in the income distribution.
Relative Price
The concept of relative price, its importance in economic choices, and its measurement.
Relative Standard Error
A unit-free measure of the reliability of a statistic, defined by the absolute value of the ratio of the standard error to the sample estimate of the statistic, expressed as a percentage.
Relief
An economic term that involves various forms of financial assistance or support, often in the context of debt relief or mortgage interest relief.