Unit 4: Money and Monetary Policy Video: Episode 30: Creating Money

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4-3 Showing the Effects of Monetary Policy Graphically

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Three Related Graphs:

Money Market Investment Demand AD/AS

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Interest Rate (i) Money Market S M S M1 10% 5% 2% PL PL 1 PL e Interest Rate (i) Investment Demand 10% 5% 2% D M D I 200 250 AD/AS Q e Q 1 Quantity M Quantity of Investment AS AD AD 1 The FED increases the money supply to stimulate the economy … 1. Interest Rate Decreases 2. Investment Increases 3. AD, GDP and PL Increases

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GDP R

Interest Rate (i) S Money Market M1 S M 10% 5% 2% PL PL e PL 1 Interest Rate (i) Investment Demand 10% 5% 175 200 AD/AS D M Quantity M 2% AS Q 1 Q e AD 1 AD GDP R D I Quantity of Investment The FED decreases the money supply to slow down the economy… 1. Interest Rates increase 2. Investment decreases 3. AD, GDP and PL decrease

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The role of the Fed is to “take away the punch bowl just as the party gets going”

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How the Government Stabilizes the Economy 6

How the FED Stabilizes the Economy These are the three Shifters of Money Supply

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Video: Episode 32 Monetary Policy:

The Federal Reserve Impact on the Money Supply

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3 Shifters of Money Supply

The FED adjusting the money supply by changing any one of the following: 1. Setting Reserve Requirements (Ratios) 2. Lending Money to Banks & Thrifts

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Discount Rate 3. Open Market Operations

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Buying and selling Bonds The FED is now chaired by Ben Bernanke .

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#1. The Reserve Requirement

If you have a bank account, where is your money?

Only a small percent of your money is in the safe. The rest of your money has been loaned out .

This is called “ Fractional Reserve Banking ” The FED sets the amount that banks must hold The reserve requirement ( reserve ratio ) is the percent of deposits that banks must hold in reserve (the percent they can NOT loan out)

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When the FED increases the money supply it increases the

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amount of money held in bank deposits. Banks keep some of the money in reserve and loan out their excess reserves

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The loan eventually becomes deposits for another bank that will loan out their excess reserves .

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The Money Multiplier

Example: Assume the reserve ratio in the US is 10% 1. You deposit $1000 in the bank 2. The bank must hold $100 ( required reserves ) 3. The bank lends $900 out to Bob ( excess reserves ) 4. Bob deposits the $900 in his bank 5. Bob’s bank must hold $90. It loans out $810 to Jill 6. Jill deposits $810 in her bank SO FAR, the initial deposit of $1000 caused the CREATION of another $1710 (Bob’s $900 + Jill’s $810) Money Multiplier = 1 Reserve Requirement (ratio) Example:

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If the reserve ratio is .20 and the FED initially increases the money supply by $2 Billion. How much will the money supply increase overall?

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Using Reserve Requirement

1. If there is a recession, what should the FED do to the reserve requirement? (Explain the steps.) Decrease the Reserve Ratio 1.

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Banks hold less money and have more excess reserves Banks create more money by loaning out excess Money supply increases , interest rates fall , AD shifts right 2. If there is inflation, what should the FED do to the reserve requirement? (Explain the steps.) Increase the Reserve Ratio 1.

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Banks hold more money and have less excess reserves Banks create less money Money supply decreases , interest rates increase , AD shifts left

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Video: Beavis and Butthead

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#2. The Discount Rate

The Discount Rate is the interest rate that the FED charges commercial banks.

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If Bank of America needs $10 million, they borrow it from the U.S. Treasury (which the FED controls) but they must pay it back with 3% interest. 1. To increase the Money supply, the FED should _________ the Discount Rate ( Easy Money Policy ).

2. To decrease the Money supply, the FED should the Discount Rate ( Tight Money Policy ).

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#3. Open Market Operations

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Open Market Operations is when the FED buys

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or sells government bonds (securities). This is the most important and widely used monetary policy To increase the Money supply, the FED should To decrease the Money supply, the FED should How are you going to remember?

Buy-BIG Buying bonds increases money supply Sell-SMALL Selling bonds decreases money supply

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Practice

Don’t forget the Monetary Multiplier!!!!

1. If the reserve requirement is .5 and the FED sells $10 billion of bonds, what will happen to the money supply?

2. If the reserve requirement is .1 and the FED buys $10 billion of bonds, what will happen to the money supply? 3. If the FED decreases the reserve requirement from .50 to .20 what will happen to the money multiplier? Increase or decrease?

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Federal Funds Rate

The federal funds rate is the interest rate that banks charge one another for one-day loans of reserves. 1. The FED can’t simply tell banks what interest rate to use. Banks decide on their own.

2. The FED influences rate and using them by setting a open market target operations to hit the target 3. The federal funds rate fluctuates due to market conditions but it is heavily influenced by monetary policy (buying and selling of bonds)

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Federal Funds Rate

Target Federal Funds Rate

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.25%

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2009B Practice FRQ

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