Money and Money Functions

• Types of Money

  • Commodity Money
  • Fiat Money

• Functions of Money, Levich, p.32

  • 1. Medium of Exchange [goods, services, debt]
  • 2. Store of Value
  • 3. Unit of Account

• Sterilization & Sterilized Intervention

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Sterilized Intervention -- leaves domestic monetary base unaffected