financial crisis

financial crisis

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Noun

financial crisis (plural financial crises)

1. An episode of sharp instability in the global or a local financial system in which financial assets lose a significant proportion of their value, often caused by the bursting of an economic bubble.

Translations

episode of instability in financial systems

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 金融危機／金融危机 (zh) (jīnróng wēijī) Czech: finanční krize f Danish: finanskrise c Finnish: rahoituskriisi French: crise financière (fr) f German: Finanzkrise (de) f Hungarian: pénzügyi válság (hu) Italian: crisi finanziaria (it) f Japanese: 金融危機 (kin'yū kiki) Kazakh: қаржы дағдарысы (qarjy dağdarysy) Korean: 금융위기 (geumyung'wigi) Mongolian: санхүүгийн хямрал (sanxüügiin xjamral) Norwegian: Bokmål: finanskrise (no) m or f Nynorsk: finanskrise f or m Persian: please add this translation if you can Russian: фина́нсовый кри́зис m (finánsovyj krízis) Swedish: finanskris c Vietnamese: khủng hoảng tài chính

See also

• bank run
• bubble
• economic crisis
• recession

References

• Guttmann, Robert (2015), “Financial crisis”, in Louis-Philippe Rochon; Sergio Rossi, editors, The Encyclopedia of Central Banking, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, pages 185–87