Meanings
plural numéraires · alternative numeraire
- economicsA basic standard by which values are measured.
And, of course, the bond market provides the necessary futures market for the numéraire good.
1992, Robert E. Kuenne, General Equilibrium Economics: Space, Time and Money, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 4921 more example
The role of the numeraire currency makes its position asymmetrical with respect to other currencies, because to fix the price of other currencies in terms of the numeraire requires using the numeraire currency as a medium of intervention, vehicle of transactions, and store of value.
1976, Robert J. Carbaugh, Liang-Shing Fan, The International Monetary System: History, Institutions, Analyses, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, page 75
Origin
- Frenchnuméraire
- Englishnuméraire
From French numéraire. Doublet of numerary.
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Finnish numeraire
- numeraireTranslations
French numéraire
- numéraireTranslations
German Standardgut
- StandardgutTranslations
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