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1. If reserves decrease by $4 million and the required reserve ratio is 6%, what is the change in the money supply?
2. According to Simple Quantity Theory of Money, what is the change in price level if money supply increases by 20% from $500 and both velocity and quantity are constant, at 2 and 100 respectively?
1.
The change in reserve changes the deposit by the same amount initially. the money supply changes by the multiplier time of changes in initial deposit. A multiplier measures the change in a variable due to one unit initial change in the independent variable. In this case, the multiplier measures the change in the money supply due to one unit change in a deposit. The money multiplier is reciprocal of the required reserve ratio mathematically. Therefore,




Assuming
and rr=0.06

Therefore, as a result of a decrease in reserve by $4 million, the money supply decreases by $66.67 million.
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2.
The simple quantity theory of money is given as

By the growth equation, the QTM can be written as

The vector sign on top of the
variables (
)
denotes the rate of change of the variable. Now V and Q remain
constant. Therefore,


Then if money supply changes by 20% keeping V and Q constant, then the price level will also increase by 20%. This is also known as the neutrality of money. The change in money supply changes price level by the same proportion keeping real values of the variables unchanged.