EC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Demand For Money, Aggregate Supply, Aggregate Demand
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Interest rate: opportunity cost of holding money, when interest rates increase, people want to hold less money. If real gdp increases, the number of financial transactions increases. If the price level increases, more money is needed to keep real value of transactions. Graphed in terms of interest rates (price) and the quantity of money. Changes in supply/demand for money affect the interest rate. Change in interest rate affects consumption and investment. Change in aggregate expenditure affects ad curve. Change in ad curve affects real gdp. Doubling bank deposits, the value of cash, and prices would have no effect: monetary reform has tested this. Key to effective monetary policy is slow adjustment of prices. Changing the money supply causes: a change in interest rates, which causes: A change in aggregate expenditure and aggregate demand which causes: An increase in real gdp, and an inflationary gap, which causes: an increase in wages and input prices, which causes:
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