The Financial Secto | Financial Assets | Shifters of Money supply | Money | Random |
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A claim in a tangible object
Physical asset
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Lending agreement between a lender and a borrower
Loan
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If there is a recession, the FED should do this to reserve requirement
Decrease the reserve requirement
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Something that performs the functions of money and has intrinsic value
Commodity Money
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Why would the FED want to slow down the economy
To fight inflation
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Expenses of actually putting together and executing a deal
Transaction cost
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Failure to make payments as specified by the loan or bond contract
default
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What happens to AD when the reserve ratio is increased
Decreases
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Who is on the $2 bill?
Jefferson
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The percent of deposits that banks must hold in reserve
Reserve Requirement
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What is a liquid asset?
If it can be easily accessed or converted to cash
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Difference between a stock and bond
A stock is ownership of a company while a bond is an IOU issued by the borrower
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What should the FED do to the discount rate to decrease the money supply?
Increase
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Inflation does what to purchasing power?
Decreases
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Equation for nominal interest rates
Real interest rate + expected inflation
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What are the 3 tasks of the financial system?
Reduce risks, reduce transaction costs, provide liquidity
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A type of financial intermediary
Mutual funds, pension funds, life insurance companies, banks
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Name the 3 shifters of money supply
setting reserve requirements, lending money to banks and thrifts, open market operations
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Two things that make money effective
Generally accepted, scarce, portable and divisible
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Two supply shifters for Loanable Funds Market
Changes in private savings behavior, changes in public savings, changes in foreign investment, changes in expected profitability
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Name the 4 types of financial assets
Stocks, bonds, loans, bank deposits
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Type of financial intermediary that helps to resolve issue of liquidity
Banks
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Formula for the money multiplier
1 over reserve ratio
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What is it called when before trade can occur, each trader has to have something the other wanted
Double Coincidence of Wants
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Relationship between interest rates and bond prices
Inverse
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