A. Increasing the refinancing rate
B. All of these will increase the money supply
C. Buying government bonds in open market operations
D. Increasing reserve requirements
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 - For the Central bank to keep the interest rat unchanged as the government increase spending, the Central Bank must continue to ?
A. decrease the money supply
B. increase the money supply
C. increase the demand for money
D. decrease the demand for money - 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 - 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 - If the central bank increases the money supply at the same time as the government increasing spending, it is suggested that investment will ?
A. Suffer even more
B. not be reduced as much as it would have been
C. be replaced by foreign investment
D. be replaced by consumer spending - 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 - With fixed exchange rates and no private currency flows, when the central bank buys domestic currency the domestic money supply is ?
A. increased
B. unaffected
C. reduced
D. None of these - 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 - 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
