fiat currency
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffiatandcurrency
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fiat
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈfiː.æt/us/ˈfiː.æt/
an order given by a person ...
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currency
noun
uk/ˈkʌr.ən.si/us/ˈkɝː.ən.si/
the money that is used in a particular country at a ...
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(Definition offiatandcurrencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Section 2 describes the basic model of bank liquidity provision withfiatcurrencyand aggregate uncertainty.
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However,fiatcurrencycan be universally verified and hence lenders demand currency in the event of relocation.
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The potential assets of the banks are consumption loans, stored goods, government bonds, andfiatcurrency.
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Such a bank pools the goods deposited by all the young agents and uses them to acquire a portfolio of stored goods andfiatcurrency.
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The banks hold portfolios offiatcurrencyand physical assets, which consist of stored goods.
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First, she can save on her own, storing some goods and/or acquiring somefiatcurrency.
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Since all period-t resources have been consumed, these agents receive claims to future consumption in the form offiatcurrency.
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Here t is the minimum fraction of the bank's total deposits that must be held in the form offiatcurrency.
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First, because the central bank can costlessly print and lendfiatcurrency, this rate equates the private cost of liquidity to the social cost of creating it.
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Champ et al. (1996) recently constructed a general equilibrium model of bank liquidity provision in whichfiatcurrencyand the provision of liquidity by banks are closely related.
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Gold standards have been the most common basis for monetary policies throughout human history, being widely supplanted byfiatcurrencystarting in the 1930s.
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The adoption offiatcurrencyby many countries, from the 18th century onwards, made much larger variations in the supply of money possible.
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It is often contrasted withfiatcurrencyissued by governments or central banks.
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In these ways it is intentionally designed to differ from the traditionalfiatcurrencyused in most countries.
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It is opposed tofiatcurrency, personal income taxation, central banking, property taxes and most state regulation of business.
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Under afiatcurrencystandard, the addition of new purchasing media brings down interest rates over sustained periods of time, marginalising existing manufacturers.
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The price of a commodity is set by the market as long asfiatcurrency(paper) in not used.
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Though, the right opposite tofiatcurrencyis not private but asset backed currency.
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