ECON 201 Lecture Notes - Nominal Interest Rate, Money Multiplier, Real Interest Rate

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17 Mar 2014

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Economics

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ECON 201

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Naveen Sarna

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Money multiplier- amount of money the banking system generates w/ each dollar of reserves. While cleaning apartment, find and deposit bill to checking account. What"s max amount that money supply could increase. Bank hold no excess reserves money multiplier 1/r= 1/. 2= 5. Max possible inc in deposits is 5x50= 250 but money supply also includes currency which falls by. What"s min amount that money supply could increase. =sh if bank make no loans from deposits, currency falls by and deposits inc by , money supply remains unchanged. Bank not lending out money so money multiplier won"t work. The fed"s 3 tools of monetary control: open market operations (omos)- the purchase and sale of us gov bonds by the fed. To inc money supply- feds buy govt bonds, paying w/ new dollars: which are deposited in banks, inc reserves, which banks use to make loans causing money supply to expand.

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Assume that banks do not hold excess reserves and that households do not hold currency, so the only form of money is demand deposits. To simplify the analysis, suppose the banking system has total reserves of $400. Determine the money multiplier and the money supply for each reserve requirement listed in the following table.

Reserve Requirement	Simple Money Multiplier	Money Supply
(Percent)	Simple Money Multiplier	(Dollars)
20
10

A higher reserve requirement is associated with a money supply.

Suppose the Federal Reserve wants to increase the money supply by $200. Again, you can assume that banks do not hold excess reserves and that households do not hold currency. If the reserve requirement is 10%, the Fed will use open-market operations to worth of U.S. government bonds.

Now, suppose that, rather than immediately lending out all excess reserves, banks begin holding some excess reserves due to uncertain economic conditions. Specifically, banks increase the percentage of deposits held as reserves from 10% to 25%. This increase in the reserve ratio causes the money multiplier to to . Under these conditions, the Fed would need to worth of U.S. government bonds in order to increase the money supply by $200.

Which of the following statements help to explain why, in the real world, the Fed cannot precisely control the money supply? Check all that apply.

The Fed cannot control the amount of money that households choose to hold as currency.
The Fed cannot prevent banks from lending out required reserves.
The Fed cannot control whether and to what extent banks hold excess reserves.

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The money supply consists of Currency + Checkable Deposits (NOT including currency in bank's vaults and NOT including banks' deposits at the Fed). Before the First National Bank made the $90 loan, no one outside the bank held any currency, and Checkable Deposits were equal to 100, so the money supply was equal to 0 + 100 = 100.

When the First National Bank made the loan, the borrower received $90 in cash, but checkable deposits did not fall. Thus, the money supply was equal to $ (..........)of currency in the hands of the non-bank public plus $(........) of Deposits, for a total of $(............).

While cleaning your apartment, you find a $50 bill under the sofa cushion. You deposit the $50 into your checking account. If the reserve requirement is 20%, what is the maximum amount that the money supply could ultimately increase? (Remember that the money supply is Currency + Deposits - and that the amount of Currency fell by $50 when you put the cash in the bank).

The change in currency would be (...............) and the maximum ultimate change in deposits would be at most(..............) , so the money supply would rise by at most(..........) .

Suppose you deposit the $50, but the bank chooses not to lend any of its excess reserves. By how much would the money supply ultimately increase in this case?

The change in currency would be (................) and the ultimate change in deposits would be(............) , so the money supply would rise by(...........) .

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QUESTION 46

When the Fed buys a U.S. bond in the open market

		its action has no effect on the total reserves or the money supply because the check it writes increases reserves at one bank but they fall at another.
		its action expands total reserves and the money supply.
		its action contracts total reserves and the money supply.
		total reserves increase by the amount of the purchase but the money supply stays the same.

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QUESTION 47

When the Fed sells government securities,

		reserves increase, leading to a decrease in the money supply by an amount more than the sale of the government securities.
		reserves decrease, leading to a decrease in the money supply by an amount more than the sale of the government securities.
		reserves increase, leading to a increase in the money supply by an amount more than the sale of the government securities.
		reserves decrease, leading to a increase in the money supply by an amount more than the sale of the government securities.

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QUESTION 48

The maximum potential money multiplier is equal to

		the reserve ratio.
		one minus the reserve ratio
		the inverse of the required reserve ratio.
		the number of dollars on reserve.

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QUESTION 49

The potential money multiplier gives us

		the growth in the money supply when income increases.
		the growth in real national income when the money supply increases.
		the maximum potential change in the money supply due to a change in income.
		the maximum potential change in the money supply due to a change in reserves.

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QUESTION 50

An increase in the reserve ratio

		increases the money multiplier.
		will cause banks to make more loans.
		has an expansionary effect on the money supply.
		has a contractionary effect on the money supply.

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QUESTION 51

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insures

		banks against lawsuits.
		the deposits held in member banks.
		the deposits held in the Fed.
		the federal funds market.

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QUESTION 52

Bank runs are a possibility because

		in difficult times people want currency instead of demand deposits.
		the FDIC is inefficient.
		banks do not keep enough reserves to cover all their depository liabilities.
		bankers are often poor businesspeople.

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QUESTION 53

The manner in which FDIC deposit insurance is set up in the United States encourages banks to

		make riskier loans than they otherwise would.
		reject some loans that probably would be profitable.
		maintain excess reserves that are too great.
		be too conservative in their lending practices.

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QUESTION 54

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

		discourages banks from engaging in excessive risk taking.
		was established after the Panic of 1907.
		only insures deposits in money-center banks.
		increases the stability of the banking system by reducing the likelihood of bank runs.

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QUESTION 55

What are the two features of money that distinguish it from all other goods in the economy?

		Money is government issued and it is redeemable for gold or silver.
		Money is part of every barter transaction and it is divisible.
		Money is accepted as a medium of exchange and it is the common unit of account used to express prices.
		Money is a common unit of account and it is also can be traded for other currencies at a guaranteed exchange rate.

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QUESTION 56

Holding money to meet unplanned expenditures and emergencies is known as

		asset demand.
		precautionary demand.
		aggregate demand.
		transactions demand.

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QUESTION 57

When people want to hold money to make regular planned expenditures, this is

		the transaction demand for money.
		the spending demand for money.
		the asset demand for money.
		the precautionary demand for money.

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QUESTION 58

When interest rates rise, the transactions demand for money usually

		decreases.
		increases.
		decreases initially and then increases to the original position.
		does not change.

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QUESTION 59

As nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rises, the transactions demand for money

		increases, and the money demand curve shifts to the right.
		remains constant, and the money demand curve remains the same.
		decreases, and the money demand curve shifts to the left.
		increases, and the money demand curve shifts to the left.

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QUESTION 60

One of the economic costs of holding currency is that

		it fulfills no precautionary role.
		it fulfills no transactions role.
		it earns no interest income.
		its real value always increases.

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