financial crisis

English

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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
• Georgian: ფინანსური კრიზისი (pinansuri ḳrizisi)
• 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