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What Do Banks Do? Practice Questions

In this video, we focus on two big functions that banks perform:

  • i. They evaluate business ideas to see to whom it’s worth lending.
  • ii. They spread an investment’s risk among many different projects.

None of these functions are unique to banks. In the following 4 anecdotes, which function is the person performing?

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Principles of Economics Macroeconomics

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GDP
What Is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
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Nominal vs. Real GDP
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Real GDP Per Capita and the Standard of Living
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Splitting GDP
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The Wealth of Nations and Economic Growth
Basic Facts of Wealth
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Growth Rates Are Crucial
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What Caused the Industrial Revolution?
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Growth Miracles and Growth Disasters
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The Importance of Institutions
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Geography and Economic Growth
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The Puzzle of Growth
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Growth, Capital Accumulation, and the Economics of Ideas
Introduction to the Solow Model
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Physical Capital and Diminishing Returns
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The Solow Model and the Steady State
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Office Hours: The Solow Model
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Human Capital and Conditional Convergence
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The Solow Model and Ideas
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Office Hours: The Solow Model: Investments vs. Ideas
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The Economics of Ideas
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Patents, Prizes, and Subsidies
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TED Talk: How Ideas Trump Crises
The Idea Equation
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Savings, Investment, and the Financial System
Saving and Borrowing
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What Do Banks Do?
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Intro to Stock Markets
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Intro to the Bond Market
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Office Hours: The Bond Market
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Four Reasons Financial Intermediaries Fail
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The Great Recession
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Personal Finance
How Expert Are Expert Stock Pickers?
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Can You Beat the Market?
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Investing: Why You Should Diversify
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Who Is More Rational? You or the Market?
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Econ Duel: Rent or Buy?

Unemployment and Labor Force Participation
The Economics of Choosing the Right Career
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Defining the Unemployment Rate
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Is Unemployment Undercounted?
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Frictional Unemployment
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Structural Unemployment
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Cyclical Unemployment
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Labor Force Participation
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Taxing Work
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Women Working: What’s the Pill Got to Do With It?
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Inflation and Quantity Theory of Money
Zimbabwe and Hyperinflation: Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?
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Measuring Inflation
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Quantity Theory of Money
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Causes of Inflation
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Costs of Inflation: Price Confusion and Money Illusion
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Costs of Inflation: Financial Intermediation Failure
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Inflation Throughout the Ages: What Would You Do?
Office Hours: Costs of Inflation
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Why Governments Create Inflation
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Business Fluctuations
Intro to Business Fluctuations
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The Aggregate Demand Curve
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The Long-Run Aggregate Supply Curve
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Sticky Wages
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The Short-Run Aggregate Supply Curve
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Changes in Velocity
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Understanding the Great Depression
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Office Hours: Using the AD-AS Model
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Office Hours: Multiple Shocks with the AD-AS Model
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Business Cycle Theories
Game of Theories: The Keynesians
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Game of Theories: The Monetarists
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Game of Theories: Real Business Cycle
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Game of Theories: The Austrians
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Game of Theories: The Great Recession
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Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve
Monetary Policy and the Fed
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The U.S. Money Supplies
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The Money Multiplier
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How the Fed Worked: Before the Great Recession
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How the Fed Works: After the Great Recession
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The Federal Reserve as Lender of Last Resort
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Monetary Policy: The Best Case Scenario
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Monetary Policy: The Negative Real Shock Dilemma
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When the Fed Does Too Much

Fiscal Policy
Introduction to Fiscal Policy
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Fiscal Policy: The Best Case Scenario
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The Limits of Fiscal Policy
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The Dangers of Fiscal Policy
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Fiscal Policy and Crowding Out
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Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics