Part I: MONEY AND ITS PRICES.
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1. Introduction and Overview.
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2. Money, Money Supply and Interest.
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3. Bonds, Loanable Funds & Interest Rates.
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4. Interest Rates in More Detail.
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Part II: MONEY AND OVERALL ECONOMY.
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5. Financial Markets through Time.
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6. Aggregate Supply & Aggregate Demand.
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7. Banks and Money.
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Part III: CENTRAL BANKS.
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8. Central Banks.
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9. Monetary Policy Tools.
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10. The Money Supply Process.
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11. Monetary Policy & Debates.
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Part IV: THE BANKING SYSTEM.
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12. Bank Management.
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13. Bank Risk Management & Performance.
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14. Banking Regulation.
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Part V: FINANCIAL MARKETS.
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15. Money Markets.
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16. Bond Markets.
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17. Stock Market & Efficiency.
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18. Mortgage Market.
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Part VI: GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS.
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19. FX.
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20. Global Financial Architecture.
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Part VII: FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
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21. Thrifts and Finance Companies.
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22. Insurance and Pensions.
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23. Mutual Funds.
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24. Investment Banks and Private Equity.
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, CHAPTER 2: Money, Money Supply, and Interest RV RV RV RV RV RV
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1. What is the difference between money and currency? When are they the same? Why might they bedifferent?
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ANS: Money is anything generally accepted in exchange for goods & services. Currency is issued by a bank or the govern
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ment, but currency is not necessarily money. They are the same when they are accepted in exchange for goods and servi
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ces. Currencies can stop being money if people don’t acceptthem in exchange for goods and services. If a group of peopl
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2. How many prices must a barter economy have if the economy has four goods? What if it has 400goods? Explain why
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having a money in the second case is beneficial.
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ANS: 4 goods = 6 prices; 400 goods = 79,800 prices. Money allows us to specialize and reduce our searchcost. Money all
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ows us to reduce the number of stated prices we need.
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3. You read a news story about a country that is suffering from rapid, ongoing increases in the cost ofliving. Which char
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1. Bobby is confused. He states: “Since prisoners are not allowed to smoke in prisons any longer,
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Radford’s examples of cigarettes in POW camps no longer applies.” How would you explain to Bobbyhow Radford’s st
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ANS: Any asset that is able to be standardized, divisible, durable and in demand could be currency, as long as it is a mediu
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m of exchange, is a unit of account and has store of value. Cigarettes were money.
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, 2. Proponents of the Gold Standard, or using gold as money, often argue that it will keep inflation undercontrol. How doe
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s the experience of Europe in the sixteenth century raise doubts about that claim?
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ANS: If people start to hoard gold or silver, there may not be enough money, and an economy couldslide into recession.
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3. Ricardo and Friedman agree that if the money supply increases “too quickly” the following happens:
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1. A critic of money economics once stated, “if you cannot measure the money supply accurately, it isnot worth discussi
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ng at all.” How would you refute this statement?
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ANS: Due to changes in financial markets, financial innovation and changes in the way banks operate,led to the decline i
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2. Economists are searching for a “good” measurement of the money supply. What constitutes a goodmeasurement of th RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV R
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ation and the economy. For example, if the money supply (according to a particular measurement) increases faster than th
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e growth rate of the economy, then economic theory suggests that inflation should occur. On the other hand, if the money
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supply (according to a particular measurement) increases too slowly relative to the growth rate of the economy, then econ
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omic theory suggests that this will result in a recession. When the measurement of the money supply coincides withthese e
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conomic predictions, then that particular measurement has the potential to be a “good” measurement of the money supply
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. During certain periods of time, both M1 and M2 have been
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considered to be “good” measurements of the money supply. However, there have also been periods oftime where the cha
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nges in M1 or M2 did not coincide with economic theory.
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3. Which of the following is the broadest or most inclusive measurement of the money supply?
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a. M1
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