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Top 1,171 Economics Keywords
Monthly search volume, CPC, competition and a 12-month trend for 1,171 economics keywords, updated October 2026.
Economics keywords are study terms first (inflation, GDP, supply and demand, the names of theories and economists) and news terms second (recession, interest rates, markets). Volume is high and steady through the academic year; CPCs are low except around courses and tutoring.
The list holds 1,171 keywords with a combined 61,461,900 searches a month. The most searched are income tax (7,480,000), social security (5,000,000), nasdaq (3,350,000), clean development mechanism (2,740,000), stock market (2,240,000), capital (1,830,000), monopoly (1,500,000), stocks (1,500,000), purchasing power parity (1,220,000) and unemployment (1,220,000).
Advertisers pay most for income inequality ($94.42 a click), debt relief ($19.83 a click), competition policy ($19.76 a click), participatory budgeting ($16.42 a click) and shareholder activism ($8.63 a click). 19% of the keywords in the list cost $1 or more a click, which marks the commercial end of the niche.
Demand is steady through the year: across the list, the busiest and quietest months are within 1.3x of each other. The trend column shows each keyword's own twelve months.
Volumes are global monthly averages from Google; CPC is the top-of-page bid in US dollars; competition runs from 0 (few advertisers) to 1 (many). Last refreshed October 2026. For any other keyword, the free search volume checker gives the same numbers, and the Keywords Everywhere extension shows them inside Google as you search.
Showing 300 of 1,171
| No | Keyword | Search volume | CPC | Competition | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | income tax | 7,480,000 | $0.52 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | social security | 5,000,000 | $0.12 | 0.09 | |
| 3 | nasdaq | 3,350,000 | $0.60 | 0.02 | |
| 4 | clean development mechanism | 2,740,000 | $0.18 | 0.00 | |
| 5 | stock market | 2,240,000 | $0.27 | 0.11 | |
| 6 | capital | 1,830,000 | $0.20 | 0.02 | |
| 7 | monopoly | 1,500,000 | $0.02 | 0.73 | |
| 8 | stocks | 1,500,000 | $1.11 | 0.11 | |
| 9 | purchasing power parity | 1,220,000 | $0.23 | 0.01 | |
| 10 | unemployment | 1,220,000 | $0.04 | 0.01 | |
| 11 | futures | 1,000,000 | $1.06 | 0.02 | |
| 12 | rent | 1,000,000 | $0.18 | 0.21 | |
| 13 | swaps | 1,000,000 | $1.83 | 0.01 | |
| 14 | depression | 823,000 | $0.31 | 0.08 | |
| 15 | minimum wage | 823,000 | $0.62 | 0.02 | |
| 16 | bonds | 673,000 | $0.73 | 0.66 | |
| 17 | credit scoring | 673,000 | $0.14 | 0.30 | |
| 18 | boom | 550,000 | $0.40 | 0.05 | |
| 19 | options | 550,000 | $0.29 | 0.04 | |
| 20 | auctions | 450,000 | $0.22 | 0.21 | |
| 21 | dumping | 450,000 | $1.05 | 0.02 | |
| 22 | mercosur | 450,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 23 | property tax | 450,000 | $0.97 | 0.01 | |
| 24 | vector autoregression | 450,000 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 25 | volatility | 450,000 | $0.32 | 0.00 | |
| 26 | adam smith | 368,000 | $0.01 | 0.01 | |
| 27 | capitalism | 368,000 | $0.22 | 0.01 | |
| 28 | default | 368,000 | $0.11 | 0.00 | |
| 29 | dividends | 368,000 | $0.62 | 0.05 | |
| 30 | leverage | 368,000 | $0.85 | 0.02 | |
| 31 | supply | 368,000 | $0.30 | 0.07 | |
| 32 | value added tax | 368,000 | $0.44 | 0.04 | |
| 33 | bankruptcy | 301,000 | $5.57 | 0.26 | |
| 34 | central bank | 301,000 | $0.08 | 0.04 | |
| 35 | human development index | 301,000 | $0.09 | 0.08 | |
| 36 | mutual funds | 301,000 | $0.24 | 0.25 | |
| 37 | rationing | 301,000 | $0.34 | 0.01 | |
| 38 | elasticity | 246,000 | $2.25 | 0.21 | |
| 39 | gray markets | 246,000 | $0.92 | 0.00 | |
| 40 | poverty | 246,000 | $0.16 | 0.01 | |
| 41 | recession | 246,000 | $0.27 | 0.01 | |
| 42 | scarcity | 246,000 | $0.38 | 0.00 | |
| 43 | subsidies | 246,000 | $0.56 | 0.00 | |
| 44 | world bank | 246,000 | $0.07 | 0.01 | |
| 45 | capital gains tax | 201,000 | $0.04 | 0.05 | |
| 46 | demand | 201,000 | $0.05 | 0.02 | |
| 47 | discounted cash flow | 201,000 | $0.39 | 0.01 | |
| 48 | federal reserve | 201,000 | $0.96 | 0.00 | |
| 49 | marginal propensity to consume | 201,000 | $0.07 | 0.24 | |
| 50 | quotas | 201,000 | $0.13 | 0.00 | |
| 51 | regulation | 201,000 | $0.51 | 0.01 | |
| 52 | remittances | 201,000 | $0.96 | 0.05 | |
| 53 | unemployment benefits | 201,000 | $0.07 | 0.01 | |
| 54 | arbitrage | 165,000 | $0.11 | 0.01 | |
| 55 | consumption | 165,000 | $0.30 | 0.00 | |
| 56 | financial stability board | 165,000 | $0.54 | 0.02 | |
| 57 | futures markets | 165,000 | $1.45 | 0.06 | |
| 58 | great depression | 165,000 | $0.44 | 0.00 | |
| 59 | inequality | 165,000 | $0.28 | 0.00 | |
| 60 | quantitative easing | 165,000 | $0.29 | 0.02 | |
| 61 | savings | 165,000 | $0.17 | 0.10 | |
| 62 | speculation | 165,000 | $0.36 | 0.00 | |
| 63 | sunk cost fallacy | 165,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 64 | actuarial science | 135,000 | $0.50 | 0.06 | |
| 65 | income statement | 135,000 | $1.14 | 0.02 | |
| 66 | mercantilism | 135,000 | $0.05 | 0.00 | |
| 67 | opportunity cost | 135,000 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 68 | price elasticity | 135,000 | $0.05 | 0.01 | |
| 69 | price elasticity of demand | 135,000 | $0.05 | 0.01 | |
| 70 | reciprocity | 135,000 | $0.12 | 0.00 | |
| 71 | supply and demand | 135,000 | $0.11 | 0.41 | |
| 72 | affordable care act | 110,000 | $2.65 | 0.25 | |
| 73 | collateralized debt obligations | 110,000 | $0.17 | 0.06 | |
| 74 | commodity markets | 110,000 | $0.33 | 0.02 | |
| 75 | commodity prices | 110,000 | $0.84 | 0.03 | |
| 76 | economies of scale | 110,000 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 77 | gdp per capita | 110,000 | $1.22 | 0.00 | |
| 78 | housing markets | 110,000 | $0.66 | 0.10 | |
| 79 | insolvency | 110,000 | $4.22 | 0.06 | |
| 80 | milton friedman | 110,000 | $0.08 | 0.01 | |
| 81 | nuclear energy | 110,000 | $0.92 | 0.03 | |
| 82 | ordinary least squares | 110,000 | $0.86 | 0.00 | |
| 83 | affirmative action | 90,500 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 84 | consumer price index | 90,500 | $0.38 | 0.00 | |
| 85 | factoring | 90,500 | $1.31 | 0.23 | |
| 86 | gini coefficient | 90,500 | $1.02 | 0.00 | |
| 87 | moores law | 90,500 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 88 | oligopoly | 90,500 | $0.06 | 0.00 | |
| 89 | rule of law | 90,500 | $0.46 | 0.00 | |
| 90 | social determinants of health | 90,500 | $1.00 | 0.03 | |
| 91 | stagflation | 90,500 | $0.01 | 0.01 | |
| 92 | thomas malthus | 90,500 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 93 | unemployment rate | 90,500 | $1.58 | 0.01 | |
| 94 | voluntary export restraints | 90,500 | $0.33 | 0.01 | |
| 95 | chaos theory | 74,000 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 96 | current account | 74,000 | $0.41 | 0.14 | |
| 97 | deflation | 74,000 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 98 | financial account | 74,000 | $0.47 | 0.07 | |
| 99 | gold standard | 74,000 | $0.13 | 0.57 | |
| 100 | human capital | 74,000 | $0.30 | 0.02 | |
| 101 | leveraged buyouts | 74,000 | $0.02 | 0.27 | |
| 102 | liquidity | 74,000 | $0.18 | 0.01 | |
| 103 | macroeconomics | 74,000 | $0.05 | 0.02 | |
| 104 | microeconomics | 74,000 | $0.24 | 0.04 | |
| 105 | money market | 74,000 | $0.67 | 0.25 | |
| 106 | nonrenewable resources | 74,000 | $2.61 | 0.00 | |
| 107 | paris agreement | 74,000 | $0.82 | 0.02 | |
| 108 | phillips curve | 74,000 | $0.25 | 0.03 | |
| 109 | production possibility frontier | 74,000 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 110 | sharpe ratio | 74,000 | $0.01 | 0.02 | |
| 111 | capital markets | 60,500 | $0.95 | 0.04 | |
| 112 | decentralization | 60,500 | $0.55 | 0.01 | |
| 113 | developed countries | 60,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 114 | developing countries | 60,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 115 | diminishing returns | 60,500 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 116 | excise tax | 60,500 | $0.91 | 0.02 | |
| 117 | law of diminishing returns | 60,500 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 118 | maximum likelihood estimation | 60,500 | $0.43 | 0.28 | |
| 119 | open banking | 60,500 | $1.70 | 0.25 | |
| 120 | pension reform | 60,500 | $1.30 | 0.04 | |
| 121 | price gouging | 60,500 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 122 | protectionism | 60,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 123 | social welfare | 60,500 | $0.65 | 0.00 | |
| 124 | tragedy of the commons | 60,500 | $0.39 | 0.01 | |
| 125 | business cycles | 49,500 | $1.70 | 0.00 | |
| 126 | corporate tax | 49,500 | $1.43 | 0.10 | |
| 127 | demand curve | 49,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 128 | econometrics | 49,500 | $0.41 | 0.02 | |
| 129 | economic growth | 49,500 | $0.98 | 0.01 | |
| 130 | flat tax | 49,500 | $0.01 | 0.02 | |
| 131 | generic drugs | 49,500 | $0.04 | 0.20 | |
| 132 | gross domestic product | 49,500 | $1.89 | 0.01 | |
| 133 | keynesian economics | 49,500 | $0.09 | 0.00 | |
| 134 | labor unions | 49,500 | $1.16 | 0.01 | |
| 135 | laffer curve | 49,500 | $0.34 | 0.01 | |
| 136 | law of demand | 49,500 | $1.81 | 0.00 | |
| 137 | lorenz curve | 49,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 138 | marginal cost | 49,500 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 139 | market economy | 49,500 | $0.47 | 0.00 | |
| 140 | monopolistic competition | 49,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 141 | nash equilibrium | 49,500 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 142 | national debt | 49,500 | $0.30 | 0.05 | |
| 143 | sales tax | 49,500 | $2.56 | 0.02 | |
| 144 | universal basic income | 49,500 | $0.30 | 0.02 | |
| 145 | barter systems | 49,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 146 | bond markets | 40,500 | $1.11 | 0.12 | |
| 147 | command economy | 40,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 148 | common markets | 40,500 | $0.20 | 0.03 | |
| 149 | comparative advantage | 40,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 150 | corporate finance | 40,500 | $1.28 | 0.10 | |
| 151 | european central bank | 40,500 | $0.24 | 0.02 | |
| 152 | financial crisis | 40,500 | $4.15 | 0.02 | |
| 153 | financial markets | 40,500 | $0.23 | 0.12 | |
| 154 | fiscal deficit | 40,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 155 | free trade | 40,500 | $0.71 | 0.26 | |
| 156 | indifference curve | 40,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 157 | indifference curves | 40,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 158 | mixed economy | 40,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 159 | petrodollars | 40,500 | $0.20 | 0.01 | |
| 160 | risk aversion | 40,500 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 161 | securities | 40,500 | $0.73 | 0.06 | |
| 162 | shell companies | 40,500 | $2.09 | 0.02 | |
| 163 | social capital | 40,500 | $3.18 | 0.01 | |
| 164 | sunk cost | 40,500 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 165 | sunk costs | 40,500 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 166 | trade war | 40,500 | $0.70 | 0.15 | |
| 167 | trade wars | 40,500 | $0.70 | 0.15 | |
| 168 | urban sprawl | 40,500 | $2.00 | 0.00 | |
| 169 | blackscholes model | 40,500 | $0.17 | 0.01 | |
| 170 | exchangetraded funds | 40,500 | $0.92 | 0.15 | |
| 171 | agribusiness | 33,100 | $0.58 | 0.03 | |
| 172 | autocorrelation | 33,100 | $0.12 | 0.05 | |
| 173 | bailouts | 33,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 174 | corporate ethics | 33,100 | $0.11 | 0.02 | |
| 175 | creative destruction | 33,100 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 176 | credit default swaps | 33,100 | $0.30 | 0.05 | |
| 177 | efficient market hypothesis | 33,100 | $0.58 | 0.01 | |
| 178 | financial stability | 33,100 | $0.82 | 0.04 | |
| 179 | giffen goods | 33,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 180 | heteroskedasticity | 33,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 181 | hyperinflation | 33,100 | $2.00 | 0.00 | |
| 182 | law of supply | 33,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 183 | monopsony | 33,100 | $0.67 | 0.00 | |
| 184 | overconsumption | 33,100 | $0.99 | 0.00 | |
| 185 | overfishing | 33,100 | $2.78 | 0.02 | |
| 186 | privatization | 33,100 | $5.28 | 0.00 | |
| 187 | social norms | 33,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 188 | sustainable finance | 33,100 | $0.82 | 0.04 | |
| 189 | unemployment insurance | 33,100 | $2.88 | 0.04 | |
| 190 | world trade organization | 33,100 | $0.25 | 0.01 | |
| 191 | yield curves | 33,100 | $0.39 | 0.01 | |
| 192 | peertopeer lending | 33,100 | $0.63 | 0.42 | |
| 193 | consumer surplus | 27,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 194 | credit ratings | 27,100 | $1.01 | 0.21 | |
| 195 | cross elasticity | 27,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 196 | cyclical unemployment | 27,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 197 | deadweight loss | 27,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 198 | debt relief | 27,100 | $19.83 | 0.67 | |
| 199 | devaluation | 27,100 | $0.03 | 0.00 | |
| 200 | externalities | 27,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 201 | financial engineering | 27,100 | $0.42 | 0.09 | |
| 202 | fixed costs | 27,100 | $0.34 | 0.00 | |
| 203 | foreign exchange reserves | 27,100 | $0.99 | 0.00 | |
| 204 | frictional unemployment | 27,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 205 | great recession | 27,100 | $0.02 | 0.00 | |
| 206 | horizontal integration | 27,100 | $4.84 | 0.00 | |
| 207 | international monetary fund | 27,100 | $0.13 | 0.01 | |
| 208 | law of diminishing marginal utility | 27,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 209 | leverage ratios | 27,100 | $0.17 | 0.00 | |
| 210 | marginal utility | 27,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 211 | market making | 27,100 | $0.26 | 0.28 | |
| 212 | market structures | 27,100 | $0.49 | 0.01 | |
| 213 | millennium development goals | 27,100 | $0.97 | 0.01 | |
| 214 | nominal gdp | 27,100 | $0.01 | 0.00 | |
| 215 | order books | 27,100 | $0.35 | 0.18 | |
| 216 | overconfidence | 27,100 | $0.19 | 0.00 | |
| 217 | overconfidence bias | 27,100 | $0.19 | 0.00 | |
| 218 | pareto efficiency | 27,100 | $0.80 | 0.00 | |
| 219 | pension funds | 27,100 | $0.73 | 0.16 | |
| 220 | perfect competition | 27,100 | $0.33 | 0.01 | |
| 221 | public goods | 27,100 | $0.16 | 0.34 | |
| 222 | securitization | 27,100 | $5.00 | 0.04 | |
| 223 | social mobility | 27,100 | $4.29 | 0.00 | |
| 224 | sovereign wealth funds | 27,100 | $0.44 | 0.02 | |
| 225 | structural unemployment | 27,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 226 | structuralism | 27,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 227 | supply curve | 27,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 228 | total cost | 27,100 | $1.54 | 0.00 | |
| 229 | variable costs | 27,100 | $0.07 | 0.00 | |
| 230 | welfare state | 27,100 | $0.73 | 0.00 | |
| 231 | islm model | 27,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 232 | accounting standards | 22,200 | $0.36 | 0.03 | |
| 233 | aggregate demand | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 234 | average cost | 22,200 | $1.01 | 0.00 | |
| 235 | bank run | 22,200 | $3.50 | 0.00 | |
| 236 | bank runs | 22,200 | $3.50 | 0.00 | |
| 237 | circular flow model | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 238 | defined benefit plans | 22,200 | $0.11 | 0.06 | |
| 239 | deregulation | 22,200 | $4.73 | 0.00 | |
| 240 | division of labor | 22,200 | $4.89 | 0.00 | |
| 241 | excise duties | 22,200 | $1.18 | 0.00 | |
| 242 | foreign exchange markets | 22,200 | $0.27 | 0.12 | |
| 243 | gdp deflator | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 244 | glass ceiling | 22,200 | $0.09 | 0.01 | |
| 245 | glasssteagall act | 22,200 | $1.06 | 0.01 | |
| 246 | human development | 22,200 | $0.82 | 0.01 | |
| 247 | inferior goods | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 248 | interest groups | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 249 | kuznets curve | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 250 | learning by doing | 22,200 | $0.32 | 0.01 | |
| 251 | libor | 22,200 | $0.10 | 0.00 | |
| 252 | long run | 22,200 | $1.48 | 0.01 | |
| 253 | malthusian theory | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 254 | market capitalization | 22,200 | $0.51 | 0.01 | |
| 255 | municipal bonds | 22,200 | $1.82 | 0.32 | |
| 256 | national income | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 257 | portfolio investment | 22,200 | $1.65 | 0.18 | |
| 258 | price ceiling | 22,200 | $0.01 | 0.11 | |
| 259 | price ceilings | 22,200 | $0.01 | 0.11 | |
| 260 | progressive tax | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 261 | progressive taxation | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 262 | rational choice theory | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 263 | short selling | 22,200 | $0.01 | 0.06 | |
| 264 | social enterprises | 22,200 | $0.99 | 0.02 | |
| 265 | solow growth model | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 266 | solvency | 22,200 | $2.12 | 0.00 | |
| 267 | standard of living | 22,200 | $0.47 | 0.03 | |
| 268 | underemployment | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 269 | veblen goods | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 270 | wealth tax | 22,200 | $1.21 | 0.02 | |
| 271 | costpush inflation | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 272 | demandpull inflation | 22,200 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 273 | valueadded tax | 22,200 | $0.17 | 0.03 | |
| 274 | adverse selection | 18,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 275 | aggregate supply | 18,100 | $0.61 | 0.06 | |
| 276 | allocative efficiency | 18,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 277 | blue economy | 18,100 | $2.00 | 0.01 | |
| 278 | bretton woods system | 18,100 | $0.03 | 0.01 | |
| 279 | budget deficit | 18,100 | $0.33 | 0.01 | |
| 280 | cost of capital | 18,100 | $2.63 | 0.01 | |
| 281 | customs duty | 18,100 | $0.41 | 0.01 | |
| 282 | discount rate | 18,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 283 | dutch disease | 18,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 284 | financial leverage | 18,100 | $1.51 | 0.02 | |
| 285 | fractional reserve banking | 18,100 | $0.04 | 0.01 | |
| 286 | income elasticity | 18,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 287 | income elasticity of demand | 18,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 288 | income inequality | 18,100 | $94.42 | 0.01 | |
| 289 | invisible hand | 18,100 | $0.55 | 0.01 | |
| 290 | labor market | 18,100 | $0.19 | 0.02 | |
| 291 | loss aversion | 18,100 | $6.74 | 0.00 | |
| 292 | ludwig von mises | 18,100 | $0.02 | 0.03 | |
| 293 | oil markets | 18,100 | $0.08 | 0.05 | |
| 294 | pigouvian tax | 18,100 | $0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 295 | political economy | 18,100 | $1.41 | 0.01 | |
| 296 | price floor | 18,100 | $1.12 | 0.07 | |
| 297 | price floors | 18,100 | $1.12 | 0.07 | |
| 298 | rural development | 18,100 | $1.49 | 0.02 | |
| 299 | short run | 18,100 | $0.10 | 1.00 | |
| 300 | sin taxes | 18,100 | $0.11 | 0.01 |