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In an economy with money, as opposed to barter, people are more likely to specialize in the production of goods and services.

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To decrease the money supply, the Federal Reserve could

A) lower the discount rate.
B) raise income taxes.
C) raise the required reserve ratio.
D) conduct an open market purchase of Treasury securities.

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Suppose Bill Gates deposits $20 million into his checking account at Wells Fargo Bank. If the required reserve ratio is 10 percent, what is the maximum change in money supply?

If a bank receives a $20 million discount loan from the Federal Reserve, then the bank's reserves will

Suppose a bank has $100 million in checking account deposits with no excess reserves and the required reserve ratio is 10 percent. If the Federal Reserve reduces the required reserve ratio to 4 percent, then the bank can make a maximum loan of

Suppose the Federal Reserve purchases $10,000 of Treasury bonds from you and that you deposit the $10,000 into your checking account deposit at Bank Y. Assume that Bank Y has no excess reserves at the time you make your deposit and that the required reserve ratio is 20 percent. a. Use a T-account to show the initial effect of this transaction on Bank Y's balance sheet. b. Suppose that Bank Y makes the maximum loan they can from the funds you deposited. Use a T-account to show the initial effect on Bank Y's balance sheet from granting the loan. Also include in this T-account the transaction from question (a.). c. Now suppose that whoever took out the loan in question (b) writes a check for this amount and that the person receiving the check deposits it in Bank Z. Show the effect of these transactions on the balance sheet of Bank Y and Bank Z, after the check has been cleared. On the T-account for Bank Y, include the transactions from questions (a) and (b). d. What is the maximum increase in checking account deposits that can result from your $10,000 deposit? What is the maximum increase in the money supply? Explain.

Which of the following tools of monetary policy is used least often?

The Federal Open Market Committee consists of the seven members of the ________, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and ________.

If households and firms decide to hold less of their money in checking account deposits and more in currency, then initially, the money supply

The quantity theory of money implies that the price level will be stable (no inflation or deflation) when the growth rate of the money supply equals

Banks can continue to make loans until their

To increase the money supply, the Federal Reserve could

Of the three primary tools the Federal Reserve uses to conduct monetary policy, the tool used most often is

Consider the following T-account for National City Bank: If the required reserve ratio is lowered to 8 percent, how much can National City loan out?

How will the purchase of $100 million of government securities by the Federal Reserve change bank reserves and total checking account deposits in the banking system as a whole? Assume that banks do not hold any excess reserves, that households and firms do not change the amount of currency they hold, and that the required reserve ratio is 20 percent.

The amount of national income in an economy equals the money supply in an economy.

Why is the real-world deposit multiplier smaller than 1/RR, where RR is the required reserve ratio?

To decrease the money supply, the Federal Reserve could

If you transfer all of your currency to your checking account, then initially, M1 will ________ and M2 will ________.

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