Tag: utility
Watered Stock
DefinitionWatered stock is an asset with an artificially-inflated value. The term is most commonly used to refer to a form of securities fraud common...
Target Return
What is a 'Target Return' A target return is a pricing model that prices a business based on what an investor would...
Tangible Personal Property
What is 'Tangible Personal Property' Tangible personal property is a tax term describing personal property that can be physically relocated, such as...
Portfolio
The grouping together of financial assets like cash equivalents, bonds, stocks and their counterparts whether they are closed fund or exchange related is known...
Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
DefinitionIn economics, diminishing returns is the decrease in the marginal output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production...
Law Of Diminishing Marginal Utility
What is the law of diminishing marginal utility
The law of diminishing marginal utility is the principle that as a person consumes more of a...
Lambda
What is 'Lambda'
The ratio of the percentage change in an option contract's price to the percentage change in the option's underlying price. Lambda is...
Easement In Gross
What does 'Easement In Gross' mean
An easement in gross is an easement that attaches a particular right to an individual or entity rather than...
Economic Derivative
What is an 'Economic Derivative' An economic derivative is a relatively new form of derivative contract (the first ones were traded in...
X-Efficiency
What is 'X-Efficiency' X-efficiency is the degree of efficiency maintained by individuals and firms under conditions of imperfect competition. According to the...