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If the initial cash in the US economy is $1 Trillion,
individuals tend to keep onesixth
of their income as cash and deposit the rest, and banks can lend 90
percent
of the deposit and reserve the remaining, then:
a) What is the total money supply (M1) in this economy? (5
points)
b) If the Federal Reserve wants to expand the money supply by five
percent (because
of the current crisis), what types of policies can she use, and
how? Explain and
support your claim using computation if it is required. (10
points)
c) Let’s say, after implementing these policies, the economy only
increased by two
percent, explain why this happened. (5 points)
d) Now the government wants to stimulate the economy by ten more
percent after
the failure of the previous attempt by the Fed (the size of the
economy is $20
trillion, and it is predicted that it will be contracted by at
least $2 trillion by the
end of this year), what can she do? Explain the possible policies
that the Gov can
implement in detail, and use computation if necessary. (10
points)
a) The Federal Reserve Bank, which is the central bank of the
United States, is a bank regulator and is responsible for monetary
policy and defines money according to its liquidity.
M1 money supply includes those monies that are very liquid such as
cash, checkable (demand) deposits, and traveler’s checks.
M1 money supply includes coins and currency in circulation—the
coins and bills that circulate in an economy that are not held by
the U.S. Treasury, at the Federal Reserve Bank, or in bank vaults.
Closely related to currency are checkable deposits, also known as
demand deposits.
b)
The Federal Reserve, America's central bank, is responsible for conducting monetary policy and controlling the money supply.
The primary tools that the Fed uses are interest rate setting and open market operations (OMO).
The Fed can also change the mandated reserves requirements for commercial banks or rescue failing banks as lender of last resort, among other less common tools.
When the economy is faltering, the Fed can use these tools to enact expansionary monetary policy. If that fails it can use unconventional policy such as quantitative easing.
In the U.S., The Federal Reserve (The Fed) exists to maintain a
stable and growing economy through price stability and full
employment – its two legislated mandates. Historically, the Fed has
done this by manipulating short-term interest rates, engaging in
open market operations (OMO) and adjusting reserve
requirements.
c) The Fed's most commonly used tool is open market
operations.
The Fed simply creates the credit out of thin air. That's what
people mean when they say the Fed is printing money.hey hire more
workers, whose incomes rise, allowing them to shop even more.
That's usually enough to stimulate demand and drive economic growth
to a healthy 2%-3%% rate.
The Federal Open Market Committee may also lower the fed funds
rate. It's the rate banks charge each other for overnight
deposits
The Fed's third tool is the discount rate. It's the interest rate
the Fed charges banks that borrow from its discount window.
The Fed's fourth tool is to lower the reserve requirement. Even
though this immediately increases liquidity, it also requires a lot
of new policies and procedures for member banks.
d)
The United States government is poised to take on a huge amount of
debt to contain the effects , with budget deficits on a scale not
seen since World War II looking likely.
But the only thing worse for the public debt outlook would be if it
didn’t. That’s why a broad range of economic analysts — including
even many fiscal conservatives who generally view high public debt
as a long-term threat — support aggressive action.
Finally, this spending is meant to last only as long as needed to
get the economy on track, it should be a one-time increase to
public debt rather than an increase to permanent deficits.
The arithmetic of the budget deficit is stark. In forecasts
prepared just before the outbreak became severe, the Congressional
Budget Office projected a $1.1 trillion deficit this fiscal year,
or 4.9 percent of G.D.P.
There are a large number of possible actors in policy
implementation. such are as follows:
-on specific legislation, there may be legislative monitoring,
oversight, and intervention to ensure that there is periodic
reporting to the sponsoring committee.
-For grants-in-aid, loans, or direct service provisions, sanctions,
or other coercive strategies there may be a regulatory agency that
is involved in implementation and oversight
-Federal, state, and local agencies may need to cooperate in
program implementation; there must be sufficient incentives and/or
possible sanctions to ensure implementation by other levels
-If several agencies are required to collaborate to implement a
policy, there may be bureaucratic and administrative delays,
resource hoarding, withholding of information, and other
games
-Within a single agency, there may be politics over where to place
a new policy or program that will implement it, and arguments over
whether to assign responsibility to an existing unit or create a
new unit, or even contract out
-If policy is implemented through contracts with private agencies,
the organization must still be involved in implementation
oversight, monitoring, and control
-Professional organizations are often concerned how a new program
will affect their members and want to have a say in its
implementation
-Citizens, interest groups, and other bodies also want input into
the implementation process at various points.
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