Functions and Measures of Money
Financial Intermediation and Fraction Reserve Banking
100

A universally accepted medium used by sellers for the payment of goods and services and by creditors as payment for debts.

What is Money?

100

A national bank that provides financial and banking services to a country's government.

What is Central Bank?

200

Anything that holds economic value and is controlled or owned by a business or household, with the expectation of providing future benefit.

What is Assets?

200

The specific amount of funds that a bank chooses to hold to ensure the bank can meet customer withdrawal demands and manage fluctuations in deposits.

What is Desired Reserves?

300

A method of measuring money by categorizing different forms of money based on how easily they can be converted into cash.

What is the Liquidity Approach?

300

A system where banks are required to keep only a fraction of their deposits as reserves.

What is Fractional Reserve Banking?

400

A currency system where the government issues money as a legal tender, and its value is based on the public's trust in the issuer.

What is the Fiduciary Monetary System?

400

Where institutions accept savings from businesses, households, and governments and lend the savings to other businesses, households, and governments.

What is Financial Intermediation?

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