Expected value of a product of n random variables

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I am currently dealing with an expression of the form

$\operatorname E[\Pi_{i=1}^n X_i]$,

where $\operatorname E$ represents the expectation value and $X_i$ is an arbitrary random variable. However, for $n>2$, I can not find any information about this specific expression anywhere.

So my question is: Does the general expectation value of a product of $n$ random variables have a specific name? And where can I find something about it in the literature? I emphasize that I am not particularly interested in the explicit calculation, which seems clear to me in principle, but would rather like to have some kind of reference.

Remark: I have found this webpage, where a "three-way covariance" is introduced. A comment on this page refered to coskewness as an implementation. However, I can not really establish a connection.