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LOAN LOSS RESERVES: A special account set aside by banks acting as a buffer between deposits and net worth that's used in case a loan is not repaid. Without this reserve, an unpaid loan on the asset side of a bank's balance sheet would require an adjustment of deposits or net worth on the liability side. The loan loss reserve is used for this adjustment.

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Lesson 20: Federal Reserve System | Unit 1: The Fed Page: 2 of 20

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The Federal Reserve System helps banks through a combination of regulation and emergency reserves.

First: It is central bank, a government established and/or sanctioned bank with assorted financial tasks, that regulates the banking system and controls the money supply. It is a decentralized central system with several banks spread around the country.

Second: It was established in 1913, in response to the Bank Panic of 1907, to prevent failed banks from shrinking the money supply and causing business cycle contractions.

Third: While it's original purpose was to provide banks with reserves, it more recently uses the money supply to conduct monetary policy and stabilize the business cycle.


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AVERAGE REVENUE PRODUCT CURVE

A curve that graphically illustrates the relation between average revenue product and the quantity of the variable input, holding all other inputs fixed. This curve indicates the per unit revenue at each level of the variable input. The average revenue product curve is one of two related curves often used in the analysis of factor demand. The other, and more important, is marginal revenue product curve.

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The first U.S. fire insurance company was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 in Philadelphia.
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