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Assume that the economy falls into recession. (i.e., output falls below full employment output) and the Fed describes by buying bonds.
Briefly describe the process by which the money supply is affected?
What does this do to the Interest rate?
Briefly explain the chain of causality of how monetary policy might help affect help move the economy back toward full employment output (That is, how can monetary policy affect AD in the short-run?)
Discuss the factors or circumstances that may make this policy less effective or even ineffective. Think broadly about this question.
Buying bonds by FED is an expansionary monetary policy. FED buys bonds and supply money in the economy. So money supply will be increased.
LM curve represents money market. So LM curve shifts to the right. As a result interest rate will fall.
At this low-interest rate, people tend to consume more instead of savings. So aggregate demand will be increased. In other words interest rate is the opportunity cost of investment. At the low-interest rate, investment becomes cheaper so people invest more, as a result, aggregate demand will be increased.
In IS-LM diagram IS curve represents goods market and LM curve represents money market. If IS cure is vertical that is perfect inelastic then the expansionary monetary policy will be ineffective. This policy just lowers the interest rate but fail to increase the aggregate demand. It fails to increase the employment level.