Chapter 16: Q.2 Critical Thinking Questions (page 365)
What do you think might be lost-and by whom - if the Fed were to follow an easily understood rule as a guide for conducting monetary policy? Explain.
Short Answer
It would be everyone's loss.
Chapter 16: Q.2 Critical Thinking Questions (page 365)
What do you think might be lost-and by whom - if the Fed were to follow an easily understood rule as a guide for conducting monetary policy? Explain.
It would be everyone's loss.
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Suppose that each percentage point increase in the equilibrium interest rate induces a billion decrease in real planned investment spending by businesses. In addition, the investment multiplier is equal to , and the money multiplier is equal to . Furthermore, every billion decrease in money supply brings about -percentage-point increase in the equilibrium interest rate. Use this information to answer the following questions under the assumption that all other things are equal.
a. How much must real planned investment decrease if the Federal Reserve desires to bring about an billion decrease in equilibrium real GDP ?
b. How much must the money supply change for the Fed to induce the change in real planned investment calculated in part (a)?
c. What dollar amount of open market operations must the Fed undertake to bring about the money supply change calculated in part (b) ?
Assume that the following conditions exist :
a. All banks are fully loaned up - there are no excess reserves, and desired excess reserves are always zero.
b. The money multiplier is .
c. The planned investment schedule is such that at a percent rate of interest, the investment is billion; at 5 percent, investment is billion
d. The investment multiplier is .
e. The initial equilibrium level of real GDP is trillion.
f. The equilibrium rate of interest is percent.
Now the Fed engages in expansionary monetary policy. It buys billion worth of bonds, which increases the money supply, which in turn lowers the market rate of interest by percentage point. Determine how much money supply must have increased, and then trace out the numerical consequences of the associated reduction in interest rates on all the other variables mentioned.
Suppose that the economy currently is in long-run equilibrium. Explain the short- and long-run adjustments that will take place in an aggregate demand-aggregate supply diagram if the Fed expands the quantity of money in circulation.
Why do you think that many people pay so much attention to likely future movements in the federal funds rate?
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