The Spanish Peseta and German Deutsche Mark as Pre-Euro Units of Account

A new online marketplace is launching that will allow users to trade a wide variety of items, from handmade crafts to used electronics. The platform's designers must decide on a pricing system. Which of the following decisions best demonstrates the application of the national currency as the primary unit of account?

Evaluating a Proposed Community Pricing System

Analyzing an Alternative Economic System

In a modern economy where the dollar is the national currency, a $100 balance in a bank account is considered a separate unit of account from a $100 physical banknote because the former is a digital liability of the bank while the latter is a physical asset.

Valuation of Bank Deposits

In a hypothetical economy, physical gold coins are the established national currency. A new digital banking system is introduced, allowing citizens to deposit their gold coins and make electronic payments. To ensure the national currency maintains its role as a single, consistent unit of account for the entire economy, how should the value of these new electronic bank deposits be measured?

Match each scenario with the economic principle it best illustrates regarding the role of a national currency.

Crisis of Confidence and the Unit of Account

In a modern economy, the value of a bank deposit is expressed in the same monetary units as physical currency because the deposit represents a claim to an equivalent amount of ________.

A country is transitioning from a barter system to a modern monetary economy. Arrange the following events in the logical order that establishes the new national currency as the single, consistent unit of account for both physical transactions and the banking system.