A. Buys govt. securities in stock market
B. Sells govt. securities
C. Lowers discount rate
D. B and C of above
Related Mcqs:
- Suppose the State Bank purchases a Rs 1,000 government bond from you. If you deposit the entire Rs 1,000 in you bank what is the total potential change in the money supply as a result of the State Bank’s action if the your bank’s reserve ratio is 20 percent ?
A. Rs 4,000
B. Rs 5,000
C. Rs 1,000
D. Rs 0 - 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 - Suppose Imtiaz moves his Rs1,000 demand deposit from Bank A to Bank B. If both banks operate with a reserve ratio of 10 percent What is the potential change in money supply as a result of Gerard’s action ?
A. Rs 10,00
B. Rs 1,000
C. Rs 9,000
D. Rs 0 - 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 - Bance Solida has, in the past, always operated with a reserve ratio of 25 percent. It has now been taken over by Gung-Ho Bank Which operates with a reserve ration of 12½ percent, Assuming that Banca Solida adopts the business practices of its new owner, What will be the effect on money supply in the country in which Banca Solida operates ?
A. Money supply will increase because Banca Solida will increase its loans
B. The effect on money supply cannot be determined from the information given
C. Money supply will decrease because the loans will have to be repaid
D. Money supply will be unchanged because the central bank has made no policy changes - Suppose that the supply curve of tin is highly inelastic. If the demand curve of tin decrease and increase cyclically along the supply curve of tin, then in this market the size of the quantity fluctuation will bathe size of the price fluctuations ?
A. relatively greater than
B. relatively less than
C. the same as
D. Any of the above - Bank issued a document that authorizes the bearer to receive money from one of its foreign branches or from another bank abroad. What such document is called ?
A. letter of Credit
B. Letter of expression
C. Demand draft
D. Letter of intent - 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
