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VAULT CASH: Paper currency and metal coins possessed by a commercial bank, either stored in the actual bank vault or temporarily resting teller drawers. Vault cash is primarily used to facilitate daily bank transactions (that is, cashing checks), and together with Federal Reserve deposits make up legal bank reserves.

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Lesson 7: Market | Unit 4: Adjustment Page: 16 of 22

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  • How competitive markets tend to be self-correcting because nonequilibrium prices create shortages and surpluses that move the price back to the equilibrium level.
  • How shortages, with quantity demanded greater then quantity supplied, are created for prices below the equilibrium level.
  • 3. Why a shortage causes price to increase back to the equilibrium level.
  • How surpluses, with quantity demanded less then quantity supplied, are created for prices above the equilibrium level.
  • Why a surplus causes price to decrease back to the equilibrium level.


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AVERAGE FACTOR COST, PERFECT COMPETITION

Total factor cost per unit of factor input employed by a perfectly competitive firm in the production of output, found by dividing total factor cost by the quantity of factor input. Average factor cost, abbreviated AFC, is generally equal to the factor price. However, using the longer term average factor cost makes it easier to see the connection to related terms, including total factor cost and marginal factor cost.

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