Assume that Jones deposits $500 in currency into her checkable deposit account (Trxn AC) in First National Bank. A half-hour later Smith obtains a loan for $750 at this bank. By how much and in what direction has the money supply changed? Explain.

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 $100. Determine the money multiplier and the money supply for each reserve requirement listed in the following table. Reserve Requirement Simple Money Multiplier Money Supply (Percent) (Dollars) 25           10             A lower reserve requirement is associated with a    money supply.   Suppose the Federal Reserve wants to increase the money supply by $100. Again, you can assume that banks do not hold excess reserves and that households do not hold currency. If the reserve requirement is 10%, the Fed will use open-market operations to       worth of U.S. government bonds.   Now, suppose that, rather than immediately lending out all excess reserves, banks begin holding some excess reserves due to uncertain economic conditions.…

The following table gives the quantity of money demanded at various price levels (P), the money demand schedule. In the following table, fill in the column labeled Value of Money. Price Level (P) Value of Money (1/P) 0.80 1.00 1.33 2.00 Quantity of Money Demanded (Billions of dollars) 2.0 2.5 4.0 8.0 Now consider the relationship between the quantity of money that people demand and the price level. The lower the price level, the required to complete transactions, and the money people will want to hold in the form of currency or demand deposits. Assume that the Federal Reserve initially fixes the quantity of money supplied at $2.5 billion. money Use the orange line (square symbol) to plot the initial money supply (MS₁) set by the Fed. Then, referring to the previous table, use the blue connected points (circle symbol) to graph the money demand curve.

Changes in the money supply The following graph represents the money market for some hypothetical economy. This economy is similar to the United States in the sense that it ha a central bank called the Fed, but a major difference is that this economy is closed (and therefore does not have any interaction with other world economies). The money market is currently in equilibrium at an interest rate of 4% and a quantity of money equal to $0.4 trillion, designated on the graph by the grey star symbol. INTEREST RATE (Percent) 6.0 5.5 5.0 45 4.0 35 3.0 25 20 0 Money Demand 0.1 Money Supply 0.2 03 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 MONEY (Trillions of dollars) 08 4 New MS Curve New Equilibrium Ⓒ image 1 Suppose the Fed announces that it is lowering its target interest rate by 75 basis points, or 0.75 percentage points. To do this, the Fed will use open- market operations to the money by the public. Use the green line (triangle symbol) on the previous graph to illustrate the effects of this policy by placing the…