Monetary Policy - the demand for money - shifts of the money demand curve

9 important questions on Monetary Policy - the demand for money - shifts of the money demand curve

What happens when there is an decrease in the demand for money on the graph? What happens to quantity of money demanded?

  • when there is an decrease in the demand for money it corresponds to a leftward shift of the demand curve
  • this reduces the quantity of money demanded at any given interest rate

What are the most important factors that cause the money demand curve to shift?

Changes in the aggregate price level
changes in real GDP 
changes in credit markets and banking technology
changes in institutions

Why do people keep a lot more of money in their wallets

because they have to, if they want to be able to buy anything, due to rising prices
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Other things equal, the higher the prices, what will happen on the graph? Why?

  • A higher price
  • will increase the demand for money
  • shifting the MD curve to the right
  • the price of everything rises, it takes more to buy the same basket of goods and services so there will increase the demand for money

What is the relation ship between the quantity  of goods and services firms buy and the quantity of money they will want to hold?

The larger the quantity  of goods and services firms buy the larger the quantity of money they will want to hold at any given interest.

Before people would pay using cash or check. What is the relationship between the invention of credit card and the demand for money

  • The invention of the credit card allowed people to hold less money
  • decrease the demand for money
  • money demand shifts left

What is the relationship between the banking technology that helps with converting from interest bearing to cash and the demand  money?

  • improvements in the banking technology
  • easy to buy without having to convert  interest bearing assets interest bearing to cash (leave the money in my account)
  • decreasing the demand for money
  • shift demand curve to the right

How does the increase in banking competition in the banking sector  combined with increased use of new information technologies affect the money demand

  • because it is easy to change from the nonchequable to the chequable
    the
  • the OPC of holding money is LOW because there are no cost of converting between accounts so i can easily have my money whenever i want
  • This increases the money demand

How do non chequable high interest saving accounts that combine conversion features of a chequing account affect the demand for money? What are their advantages to banks and customer?

  • They reduce the opportunity cost of holding money becasue there is no costs related to cinverting the money
  • leading to a rise in the demand for money
  • the banks like them because they involve paperwork, depositors like them because via internet they can quickly transfer their funds from a high interest to a low interest savings account to a chequable account

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