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Market structureThe way that suppliers and demanders in an industry interact to determine price and quantity. There are four main idealized market structures that have been used in trade theory: perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition.Similar MatchesStructured noteStructured noteA derivative investment that will change in value with movements of an underlying index; or a note whose issuer makes swap arrangements to alter its required cash flows. Pie model of capital structurePie model of capital structureA model of the debt-equity ratio of the firms, graphically depicted in slices of a pie that represent the value of the firm in the capital markets. Pecking order view (of capital structure)Pecking order view (of capital structure)The argument that external financing transactions costs, especially those associated with the problem of adverse selection, create a dynamic environment in which firms have a preference, or pecking-order of preferred sources of financing, when all else is equal. Internally generated funds are the most preferred, followed by new debt, and debt-equity hybrids. Finally, new equity is at the least preferred source. Restructured loanRestructured loanA mortgage in which new terms are negotiated. Structured arbitrage transactionStructured arbitrage transactionA self-funding, self-hedged series of transactions that usually use mortgage-backed securities (MBS) as the primary assets. Further SuggestionsNeighborhood production structureStructured portfolio strategy Term structure of interest rates capital structure Structured settlement Personal tax view (of capital structure) Structured debt Infrastructure Market microstructure |
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