ECON 1125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Reserve Requirement, Quantitative Easing, Federal Funds Rate

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4 Apr 2016

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Northeastern University

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Economics

Course

ECON 1125

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Xiaolin Shi

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A change in the money supply changes the federal. To determine the target ffr* the fed changes the ms to bring about ffr* all other rates follow the ffr* so there is a change in spending which shifts bringing the ad curve y1 to yfe toward yfe. *the important thing to remember: it"s the supply of and demand for money that determines interest rates, and the fed has control of only the supply of money, M2, and that interest rates affect spending and therefore, rgdp! A lot, but there are only a few that we should know. The most important for us is the federal funds rate: the interbank, overnight lending rate of at least 1 million dollars. This is the one that the fed watches the most closely. The second is the prime rate: the rate that banks charge their most preferred customers like neu!

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According to the interest-rate-based monetary policy transmission mechanism, an increase in the money supply generates:

a. lower interest rates, which causes an increase in planned real investment spending and an increase in aggregate demand.

b. spending on consumer goods and services directly, which causes an increase in aggregate demand.

c. an increase in nominal GDP and a change in the price level, but no change in real GDP.

d. an increase in aggregate supply since the supply of money is part of aggregate supply.

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5. Fiscal policy is enacted through changes in

A. interest rates and the price level.

B. the supply of money and foreign exchange.

C. unemployment and inflation

D. taxation and government spending.

6. In an economy, the government wants to decrease aggregate demand by $48 billion at each price level to decrease real GDP and control demand-pull inflation. If the MPS is 0.25, then it could

A. increase taxes by $16 billion.

B. increase taxes by $24 billion.

C. decrease government spending by $10 billion.

D. decrease government spending by $16 billion.

7. If there is a constitutional requirement to maintain a balanced budget, then during a recession when tax revenues are shrinking, the government will have to implement

A. contractionary fiscal policy.

B. no change in fiscal policy.

C. expansionary fiscal policy.

D. countercyclical fiscal policy.

8. Most economists believe that fiscal policy is:

A. better than the monetary policy for "fine-tuning" the economy.

B. better than the monetary policy for month-to-month stabilization.

C. not as good as the monetary policy for month-to-month stabilization.

D. not very good at pushing the economy in a particular direction.

9. An increase in the legal reserve ratio

A. increases the money supply by increasing excess reserves

B. decreases the money supply by decreasing excess reserves

C. increases the money supply by decreasing excess reserves

D. decreases the money supply by increasing excess reserves

10. The discount rate is the rate of interest at which

A. Federal Reserve Banks lend to commercial banks

B. savings and loan associations lend to some builders

C. Federal Reserve Banks lend to large corporations.

D. commercial banks lend to large corporations

11. Which of the following actions by the Fed most likely increase commercial bank lending?

A. raising the reserve ratio

B. increasing the federal funds rate target

C. reducing the interest paid on excess reserves held at the Fed

D. selling bonds to commercial banks and the public

12. Assume the economy is operating at less than full employment. An expansionary monetary policy will cause interest rates to ______, which will ______ investment spending.

A. decrease; decrease

B. decrease; increase

C. increase; increase

D. increase; decrease

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In an effort to move the economy out of a recession, the federal government would engage in expansionary economic policies. Respond to the following points in your paper on the actions the government would take to address expansionary fiscal and monetary policies:

Expansionary Fiscal Policy:

Explain the actions the federal government would take while engaging in expansionary fiscal policy in terms of the following:

The necessary change in taxes and government spending,

The effect on aggregate demand, GDP, and employment.

Expansionary Monetary Policy:

The three tools the Federal Reserve Bank (The Fed) uses when conducting monetary policy are the required reserve ratio, the discount rate, and open market operations.

Explain the actions of the Fed in regard to the three tools.

When the required reserve ratio is increased or decreased

When the discount rate is increased or decreased

Buying or selling government securities when conducting expansionary monetary policy

Explain how these actions would affect the money supply, interest rates, spending, aggregate demand, GDP, and employment.

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ECON 1125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Reserve Requirement, Quantitative Easing, Federal Funds Rate

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