1. If banks perform a switch from deposits to currency, what happens to the federal funds...
AFederal Funds Rate Use the figure and supply and demand analysis of the market for reserves to answer the following question. What would happen to the federal funds rate if it were initially at i and there was a switch from deposits into currency (holding everything else constant)? O A. The federal funds rate would stay at it. ** OB. The federal funds rate would increase to i OC. The federal funds rate would fall to 1 OD. The federal...
8. The reserve requirement, open market operations, and the moneysupply Assume that banks do not hold excess reserves and that households do not hold currency, so the only form of money is demand deposits. To simplify the analysis, suppose the banking system has total reserves of $400. Determine the money multiplier and the money supply for each reserve requirement listed in the following table. A higher reserve requirement is associated with a _______ money supply. Suppose the Federal Reserve wants to increase the...
The Federal Reserve pays interest on the reserve deposits banks hold with the Fed. Explain if and how the banks could earn any profit without cost in the following situations by taking advantage of differences in the Discount rate, Federal funds rate and interest paid on reserves. Banks would just borrow/lend each other or from the Fed or hold reserves in their account. -The discount rate is 2.5%, the effective federal funds rate is 2% and the interest paid on...
The figure is drawn such that the discount rate, is above the federal funds rate What would happen to the federal funds rate if there was a switch from deposits into currency (holding everything else constant) and the federal funds rate was initially at the discount rate (# = (d)? O A. The federal funds rate would rise. OB. The federal funds rate would stay at it. O C. The federal funds rate would fall. OD. The outcome cannot be...
When the Federal Reserve Banks decide to buy government bonds from banks and the public, the supply of reserves in the federal funds market _____. Multiple Choice increases and the federal funds rate decreases increases and the federal funds rate increases decreases and the federal funds rate increases decreases and the federal funds rate decreases
1. Suppose that currency in circulation is $600 billion, the amount of checkable deposits is $900 billion, required reserve on checkable deposits is 10% and excess reserves are $15 billion. a. Calculate the money supply, the currency deposit ratio, the excess reserve ratio, and the money multiplier. Suppose the central bank conducts an unusually large open market purchase of bonds held by banks of $1400 billion due to a sharp contraction in the economy. Assuming the ratios, you calculated in...
Assume that banks do not hold excess reserves and that households do not hold currency, so the only form of money is demand deposits. To simplify the analysis, suppose the banking system has total reserves of $400. Determine the money multiplier and the money supply for each reserve requirement listed in the following table. A higher reserve requirement is associated with a _______ money supply. Suppose the Federal Reserve wants to increase the money supply by $200. Again, you can assume that...
9. The discount rate and the federal funds rate The discount rate is the interest rate on loans that the Federal Reserve makes to banks. Banks occasionally borrow from the Federal Reserve when they find themselves short on reserves. A lower spread between the discount rate and the federal funds rate decreases banks' incentives to borrow reserves from the Federal Reserve, thereby the quantity of reserves in the banking system and causing the money supply to The federal funds rate...
Let’s say the Federal Reserve buys $20 Billion in bonds from private banks: *Total reserve requirement = 0.10 x $1Trillion = $100 Billion What is the total amount (in $) of reserves that banks can lend? Using the simple deposit multiplier, how much additional money (M1) is created by this process? What will happen to the Federal Funds Rate, the prime rate, and other nominal interest rates in the economy? (Go up, down, stay the same?) Why? If the price...
8. Federal funds rate targeting Aa Aa In conducting monetary policy, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) targets a Federal funds rate and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York uses open-market operations to achieve and maintain the target rate. Suppose that the following graph shows the demand for Federal funds. Use the orange line (square symbols) to plot the supply of Federal funds (also called "the supply of excess reserves") when the FOMC targets a Federal funds rate of...