1  BIS Review 103/2000  Economic growth involves the allocation of production factors to productive use and this allocation of resources takes place in markets. In a modern economic system, markets for goods and services, and for production factors, function more efficiently because of the existence of money as a medium of exchange.
OeNB Financial Stability Report 27. July 2014. https://www.oenb.at/Publikationen/Finanzmarkt/Finanzmarktstabilitaetsbericht.html Seite 4 von 5   The decrease in total assets was driven by reductions in interbank assets and external assets, while funding for governments and for the real economy have increased since the outbreak of the crisis.