Exam3 17-18, 20-21 Flashcards
Central bank liabilities? (3)
Currency, government accounts, reserves
How does the fed control the quantity of securities they hold?
Through open market operations
Reserves are what for commercial banks and what for central banks?
Assets; liabilities
What do commercial banks reserves consist of?
Cash in the banks own vault and deposits at the fed
What is the monetary base also known as?
High powered money
A withdraw by a person does what to the Feds balance sheet?
No change in total assets or total liabilities,
An increase in the liability of currency and decrease in the liability of reserves by the amount of the withdraw
During early years of the Great Depression a study of the money aggregates reveals that the money multiplier did what?
Decreased
What is the focus of central banks today?
Interest rates
The fed offers discount lending as what?
Lender of last resort
Most central banks provide discount loans at what type of rate?
One above the target interest rate
What is the primary policy instrument of the FOMC?
The target federal funds rate
What would the fed do if the market fed funds rate went above the target?
Purchase US treasury securities
If current market fed funds rate = target rate and the demand for reserves decreases, what is the likely response in the fed funds market?
Market fed funds rate will decrease
Three types of loans the fed makes?
Primary, secondary, seasonal
Primary credit extended by the fed is what? (2)
Short-term & overnight
Are reserve requirements a direct tool of monetary policy today?
No
Can central banks set a quantity and price tool simultaneously?
No
When the fed targeted bank reserves as monetary policy tool from 1979-1982 what happened?
Interest rates rose very high
An increase in reserve demand would do what to the fed funds rate?
Increase it.
Decrease in reserve demand would decrease it
If reserve demand is volatile, in order for the central bank to keep interest rates from being volatile it must do what?
Let quantity of reserves fluctuate
Taylor rule equation?
Target fed funds rate = 2+current inflation + 1/2(inflation gap) + 1/2(output gap)
What does the quantity theory of money state?
Changes in the aggregate price level are caused solely by changes in the quantity of money
In long run, if ignore changes in velocity what will inflation do?
Equal money growth - growth in potential output
What happens during a recessionary gap?
Current output is below potential output
What happens during an expansionary gap?
Current output is above potential output
What would the monetary policy reaction curve do as result of policy makers increasing the inflation target?
MPRC would shift to the right
The relationship between inflation and real output is what?
Inverse
How do central bankers respond to higher rates of inflation?
By increasing the real interest rate