A. Reduce interest rates
B. Buy back government bonds
C. Sell government bonds
D. Encourage banks to lend
Related Mcqs:
- If the Bank of England reduces the money supply to reduce inflation a floating exchange rate will aid the Bank of England in fighting inflation because ?
A. as the money supply is decreased the interest rate will increase and the price of UK exports will rise and the Price of UK imports will fall
B. as the money supply is decreased the interest rate will increase, and the price of UK exports will fall and the price of UK imports will rise
C. as the money supply is decreased the interest rate will increase and the price of UK exports and UK imports will fall.
D. as the money supply is decreased the interest rate will increase and the price of both UK exports and UK imports will rise - Suppose two economists are arguing about policies that deal with unemployment. One economist says. The government could lower unemployment by one percentage point if it would just increase government spending by 50 billion dollars the other economist responds Nonsense and poppycock! If the government spent an additional 50 billion dollars it would reduce unemployment by only one tenth of one percent. and that effect would only be temporary! These economists ?
A. None of these answers
B. Disagree because they have different scientific judgments
C. really don’t disagree at all. It just appears that they disagree
D. disagree because they have different values - According to the quantity theory of money an increase in the money supply is most likely to lead to inflation if ?
A. The velocity of circulation decrease
B. The number of transaction decrease
C. There is deflation
D. The velocity of circulation and the number of transactions is constant - The quantity theory of money implies that a given percentage change in the money supply will cause ?
A. an equal percentage change in nominal DGP.
B. an equal percentage change in real GDP
C. a larger percentage change in nominal GDP
D. a smaller percentage change in nominal - When supply and demand for money are expressed in a graph with the interest rate on the vertical axis and the quantity of money on the horizontal axis an increase in the price level ?
A. shifts money demand to the right and increases the interest rate
B. None of these answers
C. shifts money demand to the right and decreases the interest rate
D. shifts money demand to the left and increases the interest rate
E. shifts money demand to the left and decrease the interest rate - Starting from a position where the nation’s money demand equals the money supply and its balance of payments is in equilibrium economic theory suggests that the nation’s balance of payments would move into a surplus position if there occurred in the nation a (an) ?
A. increase in the money demand
B. decrease in the money demand
C. increase in the money demand
D. None of the above - Starting from a position where the nation’s money demand equals the money supply and its balance of payments is in equilibrium its balance of payments would move into a surplus position if there occurred in the nation a (an) ?
A. decrease in the money supply
B. increase in the money supply
C. decrease in the money demand
D. None of the above - According to the model of aggregate supply and aggregate demand in the long run an increase in the money supply should cause ?
A. Prices to rise and output to rise
B. Price to fall and output to remain unchanged
C. Prices to fall and output to fall
D. prices to rise and output to remain unchanged - The government increase government spending to try to reduce unemployment This is an example of ?
A. laissez-faire.
B. monetary policy
C. fine tuning
D. automatic stablisers - Suppose the central bank purchases a government bond from a person who deposits the entire amount received from the sale in her bank the money supply will ?
A. rise by an amount that depends on the bank’s reserve ratio
B. rise by less than the amount of the deposit
C. fall by exactly the amount of the deposit as long as the bank does not change its reserve ratio
D. fall by exactly the amount of the deposit as long as the bank does not change its reserve ratio
E. be unchanged
