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DSST Money Banking And Central Banking
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Answer 32 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The amount of money in circulation
Federal Open Market Committee
M2
Reserves
Money Supply
2. Financial institutions that receive most of their funds from the savings of the public. They include savings banks - savings and loan associations - and credit unions.
Money Supply
Asymmetric Information
Thrift Institutions
Potential Money Multiplier
3. Includes everything in M1 and Savings Deposits - small-denomination time deposits - and money market mutual funds.
M2
Federal Open Market Committee
Liquidity Approach
Central Bank
4. A number that when multiplied by a change in the reserves in the banking system - yields a resulting change in the money supply.
Medium of Exchange
Reserves
Money Multiplier
Barter
5. In the U.S Federal Reserve System - deposits held by Federal reserve District banks for depository institutions - plus depository instituitions' vault cash.
Money Supply
Liabilities
Depository Institutions
Reserves
6. The process by which financial institutions accept savings from businesses - households - and governments and lend the savings to other businesses - households - and governments.
Financial Intermediation
M2
Liabilities
Board of Governors
7. Small-Denomination time-deposits - saving deposits and money market funds.
Liquidity Approach
Money Multiplier
What are the three items the belong exclusively to M2?
M1
8. The degree to which an asset can be acquired or disposed of without much danger of any intervening loss in nominal value and with small transaction costs. Money is the most liquid asset.
M1
Potential Money Multiplier
Liquidity
Transactions Approach
9. A system in which money is issued by the government and its value is based uniquely on the public's faith that the currency represents command over goods and services.
Barter
Fiduciary Monetary System
Transactions Deposits
What are the three items the belong exclusively to M2?
10. 1/reserve ratio
Liabilities
Moral Hazard
Potential Money Multiplier
Asymmetric Information
11. 7 appointed members that set reserve requirements - approve discount rates - supervises and regulates member banks - and oversee Federal Reserve Banks
Money Multiplier
Fractional Reserve Banking
Board of Governors
Money
12. A method of measuring the money supply by looking at money as a medium of exchange.
Transactions Approach
Unit of Accounting
Transactions Deposits
Standard of Deferred Payment
13. Financial institutions that accept deposits from savers and lend funds from those deposits out at interest.
Standard of Deferred Payment
What are the three items the belong exclusively to M2?
Depository Institutions
What is more liquid: Old Master Paintings or Transaction Deposits?
14. Checkable and debitable account balances in commercial banks and other types of financial institutions - such as credit unions and savings banks. Any accounts in financial institutions from which you can easily transmit debit-card and check payments
Reserves
Transactions Deposits
Financial Intermediation
Money Multiplier
15. Information possessed by one party in financial transaction but not by the other party.
Financial Intermediation
Asymmetric Information
Fiduciary Monetary System
M1
16. A board of governors and 5 reserve bank presidents that direct open market operations-buying and selling existing U.S Government securities.
Federal Open Market Committee
M2
Money Multiplier
Money Supply
17. Institutions that transfer funds between ultimate lenders (savers) and ultimate borrowers.
Thrift Institutions
Financial Intermediaries
Liquidity Approach
Barter
18. The ability to hold value over time; a necessary property of money.
What are the three items the belong exclusively to M2?
Financial Intermediation
Thrift Institutions
Store of Value
19. Transaction Deposits
What is more liquid: Old Master Paintings or Transaction Deposits?
Fiduciary Monetary System
Unit of Accounting
Liabilities
20. A banker's bank - usually an official institution that also serves as a bank for a nation's government treasury - Central Banks normally regulate commercial banks.
Depository Institutions
Store of Value
Central Bank
Asymmetric Information
21. Any medium that is universally accepted in an economy both by sellers of goods and services as payment for those goods and services and by creditors as payment for debts.
Thrift Institutions
Financial Intermediaries
Assets
Money
22. Propose discount rates - hold reserves and lend them through the discount window - furnish currency - collect and clear checks for banks and handle the U.S government debt and cash balances.
Medium of Exchange
M2
Store of Value
Federal Reserve Banks
23. A method of measuring the money supply by looking at money as a temporary store of value.
Depository Institutions
Liquidity Approach
Asymmetric Information
Money Supply
24. Any item the sellers will accept as payment.
Liquidity Approach
What is more liquid: Old Master Paintings or Transaction Deposits?
Medium of Exchange
Barter
25. A property of an item that makes it desirable for use as a means of settling debts maturing in the future; an essential property of money.
Money
Transactions Deposits
Standard of Deferred Payment
Liabilities
26. A measure by which prices are expressed;the common denominator of the price system; a central property of money.
Federal Reserve Banks
Unit of Accounting
Liabilities
Medium of Exchange
27. The direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services other goods and services without the use of money.
Barter
Federal Open Market Committee
Unit of Accounting
Fiduciary Monetary System
28. Amount owed; all items to which a business or household hold legal claim.
Assets
M1
Medium of Exchange
Store of Value
29. A system in which depository institutions hold reserves that are less that the amount of total deposits.
Federal Open Market Committee
What is more liquid: Old Master Paintings or Transaction Deposits?
Medium of Exchange
Fractional Reserve Banking
30. The possibilty that a borrower might engage in riskier behavior after a loan has been obtained.
Reserves
Moral Hazard
Depository Institutions
Barter
31. Amounts owed; the legal claims against a business or household by nonowners.
Financial Intermediaries
Liabilities
Potential Money Multiplier
Liquidity Approach
32. The money supply - measured as the total value of currency + transactions deposits +traveler's checks not issued by banks.
M1
Liquidity Approach
What are the three items the belong exclusively to M2?
Fiduciary Monetary System