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- Baby bottleBottle containing liquid (usually milk or formula) to nourish infant
- Bachelor of EconomicsUndergraduate academic degree
- Backward bending supply curve of labourEconomic graphical device
- Backward disadvantageConcept in economics
- BackwardationSituation when futures prices are below the spot price
- Bad bankA bad bank is a corporate structure which isolates illiquid and high risk assets (typicall
- Bad controlIn statistics, bad controls are variables that introduce an unintended discrepancy between
- Balanced budgetFinancial plan where revenues equal expenses
- Balanced budget amendmentConstitutional provision
- Balassa–Samuelson effectTendency for consumer prices to be systematically higher in more developed countries
- Bali Package2013 World Trade Organization agreement
- Banana republicTerm for a politically unstable country
- Bank Al-MaghribCentral Bank of Morocco
- Bank JunctionRoad junction in the City of London
- Bank of CanadaCentral bank of Canada
- Bank of EnglandCentral bank of the United Kingdom
- Bank of England note issuesBanknotes issued by the Bank of England
- Bank of ItalyCentral bank of Italy
- Bank of JapanMonetary authority of Japan
- Bank of Mum and DadInformal term for parents providing financial support to their children
- Bank of PennsylvaniaThe Bank of Pennsylvania or the Pennsylvania Bank can refer to two institutions: one that
- Bank rateCentral bank's rate of interest
- Bank regulation and supervisionPolicy framework for credit institutions
- Bank reservesCommercial banks' holdings deposited in central banks
- Bankers' bonusesBankers' bonuses are traditionally paid or awarded to some workers in the finance industry
- Banking in ancient RomeIn ancient Rome there were a variety of officials tasked with banking. These were the arge
- Banking in ChinaGovernment managed banking system
- Banking in SerbiaBanking in Serbia is regulated by the central bank in Serbia, the National Bank of Serbia.
- Banking in SwitzerlandBanking in Switzerland dates to the early 18th century through Switzerland's merchant trad
- Banking in the United StatesIn the United States, banking had begun by the 1780s, along with the country's founding. I
- Banking licenseLegal prerequisite for a financial institution that wants to carry on a banking business
- Banknotes of the pound sterlingThe pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO 4217 currency code: GBP) is the official currency of th
- Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers2008 bankruptcy of American investment bank
- Bargaining powerRelative ability of two parties in disagreement to influence each other
- Barriers to entryEconomic theory
- Barriers to exitIn economics, barriers to exit are obstacles in the path of a firm that wants to leave a g
- Barry ChiswickAmerican economist
- Barry EichengreenBarry Julian Eichengreen (born 1952) is an American economist and economic historian who i
- Base erosion and profit shiftingMultinational tax avoidance tools
- Basel AccordsThe Basel Accords refer to the banking supervision accords (recommendations on banking reg
- Basel Committee on Banking SupervisionInternational financial regulatory body
- Basic needsAspect of poverty measurement
- Basis pointOne hundredth of one percentage point
- Bayes correlated equilibriumSolution concept in Game Theory
- Becker Friedman Institute for Research in EconomicsThe Gary Becker Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics is a collaborative, cr
- Behavioral game theoryMethod of examining human decision-making
- Behavioral strategyBehavioral strategy is an interdisciplinary field within strategic management that integra
- Behavioural financeHow psychological biases shape investor behaviour and financial markets
- Beige BookReport published by the United States Federal Reserve Board
- Beijing ConsensusEconomic policies of post-Maoist China
- Belarus and the International Monetary FundBelarus and the International Monetary Fund cover the relations between the country of Bel
- Ben BernankeAmerican economist (born 1953)
- Ben BroadbentBenjamin Robert Hamond Broadbent (born 1 February 1965) is a British economist and has bee
- Benefit financing modelThe Benefit Financing Model (BFM), also known as Unemployment Insurance Benefit Financing
- Benjamin M. FriedmanAmerican economist (born 1944)
- Benjamin PowellBenjamin W. "Ben" Powell (born 1978) is the director of the Free Market Institute at Texas
- Berle–Dodd debateThe Berle–Dodd debate is the name for a series of exchanges over the purposes of the corpo
- Bhutanese refugeesLhotshampas, a group of Nepali language speaking Bhutanese people
- Bid riggingForm of procurement fraud
- Bid shadingIn an auction, bid shading is the practice of a bidder placing a bid that is below what th
- BiddingOffer to set a price tag
- Bidding fee auctionType of all-pay auction
- BiflationEconomic process
- Big ChocolateTerm for multi-national chocolate food producers
- Big Four (Western Europe)Refers to France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom
- Big Four accounting firmsLargest global accounting networks
- Big Mac IndexEconomic index published by The Economist
- Big Three (credit rating agencies)The Big Three credit rating agencies are S&P Global Ratings (S&P), Moody's, and Fitch Grou
- Bill 28 (British Columbia)Bill 28, the Miscellaneous Statutes (Housing Priority Initiatives) Amendment Act, 2016, is
- BimetallismMonetary standard in which the value of currency is based on quantities of two metals
- BIMSTECInternational cooperation organisation
- Binary economicsTheory of economics
- BioeconomyEconomic activity focused on biotechnology
- Bitcoin protocolRules governing the functioning of cryptocurrency
- Black Codes (United States)Segregationist and discriminatory state and local laws passed after the Civil War
- Black Friday (1869)American gold panic
- Black market in wartime FranceAfter the defeat of France in 1940, a large black market developed in both German-occupied
- Black's approximationIn finance, Black's approximation is an approximate method for computing the value of an A
- Bloomberg Billionaires IndexRanking of the world's 500 richest people
- Boat buildingDesign and construction of floating vessels
- Bob Satterfield (cartoonist)Robert William Satterfield (October 18, 1875 in Sharon, Pennsylvania– February 17, 1958 in
- Bolivia and the International Monetary FundBolivia joined the IMF on December 27, 1945. Since 1945, Bolivia has cooperated with the I
- Bolton Hall (activist)American lawyer, author, and Georgist
- Bond credit ratingCreditworthiness of corporate or government bonds
- Bond vigilanteA bond vigilante is a bond market investor who protests against monetary or fiscal policie
- Bonded warehouseBuilding or other secured area in which dutiable goods may be stored
- BoondoggleProject that continues despite its wastefulness
- Boosting (behavioral science)Behavioral science technique
- Border tradePurchasing goods across country's borders
- Bosnian diasporaThe Bosnian diaspora consists of Bosnian emigrants of all ethnicities and their descendant
- Boston BrahminUpper class Bostonians
- Bounded rationalityMaking of satisfactory, not optimal, decisions
- Bourse at BrugesBourse
- Bracket creepIncreasing tax brackets pushed by inflation
- Brazilian auctionA Brazilian auction is a certain set of rules for a reverse auction. The buyer communicate
- Break-evenPoint of balance at which neither a profit nor a loss is made
- Break-even pointEquality of costs and revenues
- Bretton Woods ConferenceInternational conference in New Hampshire, US in 1944
- Bretton Woods, New HampshireBretton Woods is an area within the town of Carroll, New Hampshire, United States, whose p
- Broad measures of economic progressAlthough for many decades, it was customary to focus on GDP and other measures of national
- Broad moneyMeasure of the money supply in a national economy
- BroniBroni is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy,
- Brookings InstitutionAmerican think tank
- BrownismPolitical ideology of Gordon Brown
- Bruce L. BensonBruce L. Benson (born March 18, 1949) is an American academic economist who is recognized
- Bruno FreySwiss economist
- Bruss–Duerinckx theoremThe theorem of the envelopment of societies for resource-dependent populations, also calle
- Brussels and the European UnionStatus of the city as de facto capital of the EU
- Brussels effectMarket mechanisms by which the European Union regulation is adopted globally
- Budget constraintCombinations of goods and services affordable given income and prices
- Budget of the United KingdomBalance sheet of the British government
- Budget processA budget process refers to the process by which governments create and approve a budget, w
- Budget sequestrationBudget sequestration is a provision of United States law that causes an across-the-board r
- Buffett indicatorAggregate stock market valuation metric
- Build to orderProduction approach
- Building societyMember-owned financial institution focused on savings and mortgages
- Bulge bracketWorld's largest investment banks
- Bulk purchasingPurchasing large quantities for a low unit price
- Bureau de changeBusiness where a currency can be exchanged for another
- Bureau of Economic AnalysisUS federal government agency
- Bus manufacturingManufacture of buses and coaches
- Business analysisIdentifying and addressing business needs
- Business economicsAcademic discipline
- Business sectorPart of the economy made up by companies
- Byzantine economyThe Byzantine economy was among the most robust economies in the Mediterranean and the wor