A variable in economics which is measured in physical units of some sort: for example, the level of employment, or the volume of oil extracted in a year. Real variables are contrasted with the other two types of variable common in economics: monetary variables, such as the price level or the annual profits of a firm; and pure numbers or ratios, such as elasticities or the percentage of the labour force unemployed.

• financial security
• Financial Services Act
• Financial Times Actuaries All-Share Index
• Financial Times Actuaries Share Indexes
• Financial Times Industrial Ordinary Share Index
• Financial Times Share Indexes
• Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
• financial year
• financing, official
• fine tuning
• firm
• firm-specific human capital
• first-best
• first-degree price discrimination
• first derivative
• first-in, first-out
• first-mover advantage
• first-order conditions
• FIS
• fiscal drag
• fiscal neutrality
• fiscal policy
• fiscal stance
• fiscal system, federal
• fiscal year