Principles of Economics

18 important questions on Principles of Economics

Why does money have value?

- past gold
- acceptibility
- legal tender
- relative scarcity

M 0
M 1
M 2

M 0 = Currency (coins + paper)
M 1 = Currency + checkable deposits
M 2 = M1 + near money (savings department)

Fractional reserve banking system

One in which banks and thrifst are required to hold less than 100 percent of their checkable deposit liabilities as cash reserve
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The EMU has a fractional reserve banking system

- only a portion of the total money supply is held as reserve as currency
- Banks create money through lending

Reserve Ratio formula

Commecial Banks required reserves /

Checkable deposit liabilites

Formula excess reserves

Actual bank or thrift minus legally reserved ratio

Difference individual and commercial bank lending capacity

An individual bank can only lend an amount equal to its excess reserves, but the commercial bankin system can lend by a multiple excess reserves

Money multiplier formula

M = 1/R

Maximum checkable deposit creation  D, is equal to

The total excess of reserves x monetary multiplier
D = E x M

Demand for money reasons

1. To make purchases (medium of exchange)
2. To hold it as an asset (store of value)

What is the sum of total money demanded

Asset demand + transaction demand

Main determinant of the amount of money demanded for transactions is the level of ...

Nominal GDP ---> The transaction demand for money is vertical

If the ECB raises the reserve ration then

  • Amount of required reserves will go up
  • banks will loss excess reserves
  • dimish their ability to create money by lending or reduce checkable deposits and therefore the money supply, due to deficient reserves

Increasing the discount rate discourages commercial banks from obtaining additional reserves through borrowing from the central banks

When the ECB raises the discounts rate it wants to restrict the money supply

Expansionary monetary policy and GDP --> Problem = unemployment and recession

1. ECB buys bonds, lowers reserve ratio, lowers the discount rate or increases reserve auctions,
2. Excess reserves increase
3. Money supply increases
4. Interest rate falls
5. Investment goes up
6. AD increases
7. Real GDP increases`

Restrictive monetary policy and GDP ---> problem = inflation

1. ECB sells bonds, increases reserve ration, increases the discount rate pr decreases reserve auction
2. Excess reserve decrease
3. Money supply falls
4. Interest rate increases
5. Investment spending decreases
6. AD decreases
7. Inflation declines

Advantages of monetary policy

- speed & flexibility
- Isolation from political pressures
--> monetary policy can be quickly altered and is subtler and more politcally neutral

Shortcoming of monetary ppolicy

1. Monetary policy faces recognition and operational lag
---> ECB must recoginze and respond quickly to changes in economic activity
2.  it takes time for monetary policy to work its way through to AD
3. Monetary policy suffers from cyclical assymmetry

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