Absolute (Money) Price

Directly Related Two variables are directly
related if they change in the same way.
Discount Loan A loan the Fed makes to a
commercial bank.
Discount Rate The interest rate the Fed
charges depository institutions that borrow
reserves from it; the interest rate charged on
a discount loan.
Discretionary Fiscal Policy Deliberate
changes of government expenditures and/or
taxes to achieve economic goals.
Diseconomies of Scale The condition
when inputs are increased by some
percentage and output increases by a smaller
percentage, causing unit costs to rise.
Disequilibrium A state of either surplus or
shortage in a market.
Disequilibrium Price A price other
than equilibrium price. A price at which
the quantity demanded does not equal the
quantity supplied.
Disposable Income The portion
of personal income that can be used for
consumption or saving; equal to personal
income minus personal taxes (especially
income taxes).
Disutility The dissatisfaction one receives
from a bad.
Dividend A share of the profits of a corporation distributed to stockholders.
Double Coincidence of Wants In a
barter economy, a requirement, which
must be met before a trade can be made.
It specifies that a trader must find another
trader who at the same time is willing to
trade what the first trader wants and wants
what the first trader has.