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Monetary Policy Problem Set[1]
- Suppose the Fed decreases the discount rate.
As a result of this policy, what will happen to the money supply (select one)?- Money Supply increases.
- Money Supply decreases.
- Money Supply stays the same.
- Consider the following balance sheet for Bank of America.
Assets | Liabilities | ||
Reserves | 882 | Deposits | 2100 |
Loans | 1218 |
Suppose that someone deposited $100 at Bank of America.
Given this data, what is the minimum amount by which the money supply will increase?
Use the following information to answer questions 3 and 4:
Suppose that the Fed conducts a $110 million open market purchase of government bonds.
In addition, suppose that the required reserve ratio (R) is 42 percent and that banks do not hold any excess reserves.
- What is the money multiplier?
- What is the effect on the money supply? More precisely, by how much will the money supply increase?
Use the following information to answer questions 5 through 8:
Assume that the banking system has total reserves of $882 billion.
Assume also that required reserves are 42 percent and that banks do not hold any excess reserves and households hold no currency.
- What is the money multiplier?
- What is the level of deposits?
- Now suppose that the Fed decreased the required reserves to 33.6. What is the new multiplier?
- If the Fed decreases the required reserves to 33.6, what is the level of excess reserves? Make sure to include a negative sign if necessary.
- If the Fed wishes to conduct expansionary monetary policy, it should (select one)
- Increase required reserve ratio
- Decrease required reserve ratio
- Sell T-Bills.
- Decrease taxes.
- If the Fed wishes to conduct contractionary monetary policy, it should (select one)
- Decrease required reserve ratio.
- Buy T-bills.
- Sell T-Bills.
- Increase taxes.
- Suppose the Fed decreases the discount rate.
As a result of this policy, what will happen to the interest rates (select one)?- Interest rates will decrease.
- Interest rates will increase.
- Interest rates will stay the same.
- Suppose the Fed decreases the discount rate.
As a result of this policy, what will happen to the Aggregate Demand (AD) (select one)?- AD will shift to the right.
- AD will shift to the left.
- AD will stay the same.
- Suppose interest rates increase.
As a result of this, what will happen to consumption (C) and investment (I) (select one)?- C will increase and I will decrease.
- Both C and I will increase.
- C and I will not change.
- Both C and I will decrease.
- C will decrease and I will increase.
- Suppose the Fed decreases the discount rate.
As a result of this policy, what will happen to price level and GDP in the short-run (select one)?- Price level will increase while GDP will decrease.
- Price level will decrease while GDP will increase.
- Neither price level nor GDP will change.
- Both price level and GDP will decrease.
- Both price level and GDP will increase.
- Price level will increase while GDP will remain the same.
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