What is the function of money in the economy? How is it that
banks create money? What is the primary method used by the Federal
Reserve to increase/decrease the money supply? How does this method
work? How does it relate to the Federal Funds Rate?
How do banks create money? Explain with an example
How does a $1,000 withdrawn from Pat’s account affect the
monetary base? Explain
The Fed buys $300 million of bonds from the public. How will
this affect the Fed’s balance sheet? Explain
How do banks create money and how does that compares to the
Federal Reserves Quantitative Easing experiment that saved the U.S.
and European economies from a deeper recession and/or depression at
the end of the great recession of 2008 - 2009.
1. i) Using the money multiplier theory, explain how money lent
by banks is related to the money supply of an economy. How can the
central bank of a given economy control the money supply?
ii) “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”.
Using economic knowledge, explain the statement. Explain whether
this is this true for only the short run or the long run or
both.
iii) Suppose that the central bank announces a new quantitative
easing programme for...