ECON 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gdp Deflator, Online Banking, Money Supply

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3 Nov 2016

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Simon Fraser University

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Economics

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ECON 105

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Junjie Liu

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When th overall price level rises, the value of money falls. The supply of money is perfectly inelastic (the central bank has xed the quantity of money available in the economy) Re ects how much wealth people want to hold in liquid form. The quantity depends on four main factors: 1. Higher prices require more money per transaction - people will choose to hold more money in their wallets and checking accounts: 2. The opportunity cost of holding money - as interest rate rises, people will hold less money, because they can earn higher return by buying assets: 3. As total income or output increase, more money is needed for transactions. Technological changes and the arrival of new nancial products in uence the quantity of money held - the quantity of money that people hold decreases as a result of nancial innovations e. g. internet banking, abm, credit cards.

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Choose the correct answer from the brackets:

A)The demand for money is mainly influenced by three variables: r (the short-term interest rate), Y (real GDP), and P (the aggregate Price level). Suppose r rises, but Y and P are unchanged. What happens to the quantity of money demanded?

r is both the opportunity cost of holding money and the reward for holding bonds. Thus, an increase in r causes people to want to hold (more/less ) of their wealth in the form of money and ( more/less) in the form of bonds to take advantage of the higher interest rate.

Suppose real income (Y) rises while the quantity of money in the economy stays the same. What happens to money demand?

The supply of money does not automatically rise when the production of real goods and services (Y) rises. However, the collective demand for money by firms and households does rise. To get this money firms and households attempt to (buy more/ sell some of their /more /less bonds).

Thus, an increase in Y causes people to want to hold (buy more /sell some of their / more /less) of their wealth in the form of money and (buy more / sell some of their / more / less ) in the form of bonds.

C)Suppose the price level (P) rises, but Y and r are unchanged. What happens to money demand?

If Y is unchanged, people will want to buy the same amount of goods and services as before. However, since P is higher, they will need (more / less) money to do so.

Hence, an increase in P causes people to want to hold (more / less) of their wealth in the form of money and (more / less) in the form of bonds.

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a) Assuming that money market equilibrium always exists, if the national price level P increases by 5%, and real money demand L increases by 2%, then the nominal money supply M needs to increase by:

a. decrease by 7%.

b. decrease by 3%.

c. increase by 7%.

d. increase by 3%.

b) A real depreciation of the dollar against the euro occurs when:

a. there is a nominal depreciation of the US dollar against the euro which is at a higher rate than the US inflation rate, regardless of the European rate of inflation.

b. there is a nominal depreciation of the US dollar against the euro which is at a higher rate than the sum of the US inflation rate and the European inflation rate.

c. the cost of the US basket in terms of the European basket (European basket per US basket) rises, where "basket" refers to the basket of goods and services used in a country's price index.

d. there is a nominal depreciation of the US dollar against the euro which is at a higher rate than the European inflation rate, regardless of the US rate of inflation.

e. the cost of the European basket in terms of the US basket (US basket per European basket) rises, where "basket" refers to the basket of goods and services used in a country's price index.