Chapter 26: Q.16 (page 691)
Why might the bank lending channel be less effective today than it once was?
Short Answer
As a result of the worldwide drop in the industry of bank loans, the banking lending mechanism has now become feeble.
Chapter 26: Q.16 (page 691)
Why might the bank lending channel be less effective today than it once was?
As a result of the worldwide drop in the industry of bank loans, the banking lending mechanism has now become feeble.
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Get started for free1. Go to http://www.econlib.org/library/Encl/Recessions . html and review the material on recessions.
a. What is the formal definition of a recession?
b. What are the problems with the definition?
c. What are the three Ds used by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to define a recession?
d. Review Chart 1. What trend is apparent regarding the length of recessions?
Suppose the economy is in recession and the monetary policymakers lower interest rates in an effort to stabilize the economy. Use an aggregate supply and demand diagram to demonstrate the effects of a monetary easing when the transmission mechanisms are functioning normally and when the transmission mechanisms are weak, such as during a deep downturn or when significant financial frictions are present.
From mid- to early , the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined by more than , while real interest rates were low or falling. What does this scenario suggest should have happened to investment?
In the late s, the stock market was rising rapidly, the economy was growing, and the Federal Reserve kept interest rates relatively low. Comment on how this policy stance would affect the economy as it relates to the Tobin transmission mechanisms.
Nobel Prize winner Franco Modigliani found that the most important transmission mechanisms of monetary policy involve consumer expenditure. Describe how at least two of these mechanisms work.
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