A. a nominal money stock target
B. a balanced budget
C. an inflation target
D. The pursuit of a target real interest rate
Related Mcqs:
- Suppose both buyers and sellers of wheat expect the price of wheat to rise in the near future. What would we expect to happen to the equilibrium price and quantity in the market for wheat today ?
A. The impact on both price and quantity is ambiguous
B. Price will decrease, quantity is ambiguous.
C. price will increase, quantity will decrease
D. price will increase, quantity is ambiguous.
E. Price will increase, quantity will increase - If a country’s policy makers were to continuously use expansionary monetary policy in an attempt to hold unemployment below the natural rate the long-run result would be ?
A. an increase in the level of output
B. a decrease in the unemployment rate
C. an increase in the rate of inflation
D. All of these answers - In the early eighties, the Federal Reserve pursed a tight monetary policy. All else being equal. the impact of that policy was to interest rates in the United States relative to those in Europe and cause the dollar to _______ against European currencies?
A. decrease; depreciate
B. decrease; appreciate
C. increase; depreciate
D. increase; appreciate - Which of the following is not an instrument of monetary policy ?
A. Taxation
B. Bank rate
C. Open-market operations
D. Credit rationing - Which of the following is a problem for monetary policy in a currency union ?
A. Money supply is more difficult to control in a currency union.
B. The inflation-unemployment trade-off is more unstable in a currency union
C. All of these answers describe problems for monetary policy in a currency union
D. The interest rate may be higher than is appropriate for economic conditions in some countries while it’s lower than is appropriate in some others monetary policy must be one size fits all - Monetary policy is regulated by ?
A. Money lenders
B. Central Bank
C. Private entrepreneurs
D. Government policy - One of the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy is through consumer demand when interest rates ________ household wealth ________ and consumption _________?
A. rise; increase, increase
B. rise, falls, increase
C. rise, increase, falls
D. rise, falls, falls - Monetary policy effects the _________ and __________?
A. reserve, unemployment
B. money supply, interest rate
C. taxes, exchange rate
D. stock price, minimum wage - Expansionary monetary policy ?
A. tends to lead to an appreciation of a nation’s currency
B. tends to lead to a depreciation of a nation’s currency
C. usually has no effect on a currency’s exchange value
D. tends to lead to a depreciation of the currencies of other nations - If the state Bank of Pakistan wished to pursue an expansionary monetary policy it would ?
A. increase the minimum reserve asset ratio.
B. buy government securities on the open market
C. raise interest rates
D. sell government securities on the open market
