Barter Trade Quiz

Barter involves the exchange of goods or services without using money as a medium of exchange.

Barter transactions often involve delayed reciprocal exchange rather than immediate exchange.

Barter usually takes place on a unilateral basis.

Barter is commonly used as a replacement for money in developed countries.

No ethnographic studies have shown that any society has used barter without any other medium of exchange.

Money is a verifiable record generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts.

Nearly all contemporary money systems are based on unbacked fiat money with use value.

The money supply of a country comprises all currency in circulation and one type of bank money.

Bank money forms the largest part of broad money in developed countries.

The word money derives from the Latin word moneta with the meaning 'coin' via French monnaie.