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Money, Financial System, And Monetary Policy. Flashcards

Money Fraction Reserve Banking *financial system *deposit creation Central Banking and Monetary Policy *monetary policy *equilibrium in the money market *transmission mechanism of monetary policy

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Double coincidence of want

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An economic phenomenon where two people have have an item the other party wants

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Intrinsic value

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intrinsic value or fundamental value is the “true, inherent, and essential value” of an asset independent of its market value.

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Flaw of commodity money

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It has intrinsic value, meaning that the commodity has value even if it is not used as money

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Fiat money

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A currency without intrinsic value that has being established as money, often by government regulation

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Monetary aggregate

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A measure of the amount of money in circulation within a country or economic sector.

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Three main functions of money

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  1. A medium of exchange
  2. A unit of account, to value things and compare value
  3. As a store of value
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Two main categories of monetary aggregates

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  1. Narrow money or M1
  2. Broad money or M2
    and sometimes M2 +
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Narrow money or M1

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  1. Paper currency or coins with the public

2. Demand deposit (Checking) accounts.

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Demand deposit

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is an account with a bank or other financial institutions that allows the depositor to withdraw his or her funds from the account without notice

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Broad money or M2

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  1. M1
  2. Savings account
  3. Time deposit accounts
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Time deposit account

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A time deposit or term deposit is an interest-bearing bank deposit with a specified period of maturity.

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Foreign Currency Fixed Deposit (FCFD)

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Is a time deposit issued by banks to investors who would like to keep foreign currency for future use or hedge against foreign currency fluctuation

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Demand for money

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Is the demand for real money balances

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Real money balances

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the real value of the amount of money held by a person, household or firm or the amount in circulation in the economy.

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Sources of demand for money

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  1. Transactions demand for money

2. Assess demand for money

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Transactions demand for money

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This is the need for money to make purchases of goods and services

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Transactions demand for money is affected by

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  1. Interest rate, opportunity cost for holding

2. Prices and income

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Asset Demand (Da)

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Is money kept as a store of value for later use

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Financial system

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  • responsible for linking other markets within the economy (goods markets and factor markets)
  • it also links the economic agents within an economy
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[T /F] Financial systems are made up of financial intermediaries and financial markets

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True

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Financial markets

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Markets that trade financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, currencies. Eg, Bonds market, stock market, and forex markets.

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Financial intermediaries

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They are institutions that provide financial services and products. Banks, mutual funds, mortgage buyers, derivative firms.

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Role of financial systems

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  1. Mobilizing and allocating resources
  2. Managing risks within an economy
  3. Acting as clearing houses
  4. Transfer of resources across space and time
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Asset of commercial banks

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  1. Cash in vault
  2. Loans
  3. Securities
  4. Reserves with central bank
  5. Investment
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Liabilities of commercial bank

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  1. Demand deposit
  2. Savings account
  3. Time deposit
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Money multiplier

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The ratio of the money supply to the monetary base (money in bank vaults and money in circulation); the money multiplier tells us how many additional dollars will be created with each addition to the monetary base.

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RRR.

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Required Reserve Ratio. Fraction of deposits required by banks to keep as reserves

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Monetary Policy

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Changes in money supply that influences the level of economic activity

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Body in charge of monetary policy in Ghana

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Monetary policy committee of the bank of Ghana

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Types of monetary policy

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  1. Expansionary monetary policy

2. Contractionary monetary policy

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Expansionary monetary policy (loosening)

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Refers to increase in money or an expansion in policy interest rate

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Policy interest rate

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Is an interest rate that the monetary authority (central bank) sets in order to influence the evolution of the main monetary variables in the economy (consumer prices, exchange rate or credit expansion)

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[T /F] The policy interest rate determines the rest of the interest rates in the economy

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True

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Contractionary monetary policy (tightening)

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Reduction in money supply or an increase in policy interest rate

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How is money supplied

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Directly by the central bank through monetary policy

Indirectly by commercial banks (and the public) through the deposit creation process.

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Some tools of monetary policy

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  1. Open operation market
  2. Dicount rate policy
  3. Reserve requirement policy
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Open Market Operations (OMO)

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Refers to the sale and purchase of government securities in the open market.

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[T /F] Open market purchases are meant to increase money supply

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True

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[T /F] Open market sales are meant to reduce money supply

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True

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Discount rate

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Interest rate charged when commercial bank borrow from the central banks

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[T /F] central banks raise the discount rate to signal tightening of monetary policy

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True

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[T /F] central banks lower the discount rate to sign loosening of monetary policy

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True

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[T /F] and increase in RRR signals a tightening of monetary policy and vice versa

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True.

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Hedge

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Is an investment to reduce the risk of adverse price movement in an asset.

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Fractional reserves

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The practice of keeping a percentage of deposits on hand but loaning out the rest

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Reserve requirements

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A legal obligation to keep a minimum amount of reserves

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Money supply

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Is all the currency and other liquid instruments in a country’s economy on the date measured.

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