CB Functions, Central Banking, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Macroeconomics
Can We Still Define Banks Nowadays? According to literature in the field, the following definition is widely accepted: “a bank is a financial intermediary that offers loans and deposits, and payment services” (Casu, 2006) However, nowadays banks have diversified the...
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Macroeconomics
Although GDP is commonly used to measure the size of an economy nowadays, Simon Kuznets, the economist who created this tool has warned against its use as a measure of welfare. Commissioned by the US Congress in 1934 to create a system that would monitor the...
