A. New York Interbank Offered Rates (NIBOR)
B. international Interbank Offered Rates (IOBOR)
C. London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)
D. USA Interbank Offered Rate (UIBOR)
Related Mcqs:
- Reserve requirements that may be imposed on an economy’s banks by its central bank specify that banks by its central bank specify that banks reserve must be a minimum percentage of them ?
A. assets
B. deposits
C. loans
D. government bonds - For the United States suppose the annual interest rate on government securities equals 8 percent while the annual inflation rate equals 4 percent, For Switzerland the annual interest rate on government securities equal 10 percent while the annual inflation rate equals 7 percent the above variables would cause investment funds to flow from ?
A. the United States to Switzerland causing the dollar to depreciate
B. the United States to Switzerland causing the dollar to appreciate
C. Switzerland to the United States causing the franc to depreciate
D. Switzerland to the United States causing the franc to appreciate - For the United States suppose the annual interest rate on government securities equals 12 percent while the annual inflation rate equals 8 percent For Japan the annual interest rate on government securities equals 10 percent while the annual inflation rate equals 5 percent the above variables would cause investment funds to flow from ?
A. The United States to Japan causing the dollar to depreciate
B. The United States to Japan causing the dollar to appreciate
C. The Japan to United States, causing the dollar to depreciate
D. The Japan to United States, causing the dollar to appreciate - If the nominal interest rate is 7 percent and the inflation rate is 3 percent, then the real interest rate is ?
A. 4 percent
B. 10 percent
C. -4 percent
D. 3 percent
E. 21 percent - Which function is performed by both commercial banks and central banks ?
A. Acting as bankers to the government
B. Advising the government on monetary policy
C. Dealing in foreign exchange
D. Fixing the main interest rate - Keynes liquidity preference theory of the interest rate suggests that the interest rate is determined by ?
A. aggregate supply and aggregate demand
B. the supply and demand for loanable funds
C. the supply and demand for money
D. the supply and demand for labor - When money demand is 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 interest rate ?
A. None of these answers
B. decrease the quantity demanded of money
C. increase the quantity demanded of money
D. decreases the demand for money
E. increases the demand for money - If inflation is 8 percent and the real interest rate is 3 percent, then the nominal interest rate must be ?
A. 3/8 percent
B. 5 percent
C. 11 percent
D. 24 percent - Central bank’s rate of lending to commercial banks is called ?
A. Interest rate
B. Discount rate
C. Money rate
D. Control rate - In the absence of international capital controls, central banks set ________ to provide the correct incentive for speculators?
A. money supply targets
B. income policy
C. interest rates
D. inflation targets
