Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Loanable Funds Market- 04/4/17

Loanable Funds Market- 04/4/17

Loanable Funds Market:
- Private sector supply and demand for loans
- Brings together savers and borrowers

- Shoes effect on Real interest Rate

Demand:
-inverse relationship between real interest rate and quantity of loans demanded
Supply:
-Direct relationship between real interest rate and quantity of loans supplied
-NOT SAME AS MONEY MARKET




The Tools of Monetary Policy and Shifters of MS- 04/03/17

The Tools of Monetary Policy and Shifters of MS- 04/03/17

Tools of Monetary Policy:
1) Reserve Requirements
2) Open Market Operation
3) Discount Rate

Reserve Requirement:
-amount that must be kept in vaults
-FED sets the percent banks must hold

1) If there is a recession, what should FED do to the RRR?
Decrease the reserve ratio
-Banks hold less money and have more excess reserves
-Banks create more money by loaning out excess reserves
-MS increases, i decreases, AD increases

2) If there is an inflation, what should the FED do to the RRR?
Increase the reserve ratio
-Banks hold more money and have less ER
-Banks create less money
-MS decreases, i increases, AD decreases

Open Market Operation:
-FED buys/sells bonds
-most important and widely used monetary tool
-If fed buys bonds, MS increases
-If FED sells bonds, MS decreases


Discount Rates
-interest rate that FED charges Commercial banks for short term loans

Federal Fund Rate:
-interest rate that banks charge one another of overnight loans

Prime Rate:
-interest rate banks charge their most credit worthy customers



Money Creation- 03/27/17

Money Creation- 03/27/17

- A single bank can create $ by the amount of its excess reserves
- The banking system as a whole can create money by a multiple of the excess reserves
- MM * ER = expansion of money
- MM = 1/RRR

New vs. Existing Money
- If the initial deposit in a bank comes from the FED or bank purchase of a bond or other money of the initial deposit in a bank comes from the FED or bank purchase of a bond or other money out of circulation ( buried treasure) the deposit immediately increases the money supply
-The deposit then leads to further expansion of the money supply through the money creation process
-The total change in MS if initial deposit is new money = Deposit + money created by banking system.
-If a deposit in a bank is existing money (already counted in M1, currency or checks) depositing the amount does NOT change the MS immediately because it is already counted in it
-Existing currecy deposited into a checking account changed only the composition of the money supply from coins/paper money to checking account deposits

-       Total change in MS in deposit is existing money = banking system created money only


Money Market- 03/23/17

Money Market- 03/23/17

-Demand for money has an inverse relationship between nominal interest rates and the quality of money demanded

1) What happens to the quantity demanded of the money when interest rates increase?
-Quantity demanded falls because individuals would prefer to have interest earning assets instead of borrowed liabilities
2) What happens to the quantity demanded when interest rates decrease?
-Quantity demanded increase
-There is no incentive to convert cash into interest earning assets.

The Determinants for Money
1) Changes in price level
2) Changes in income
3) Changes in taxation that affects investment

Increasing the money supply
- increase money supply
à Decreases interest rates à Increases investment à Increases AD

How Banks Create Money?
Fractional Reserve System
- Demand deposits are created
- The process in which banks hold a small portion of their deposits in reserves and they loan out the excess
- Banks keep cash on hand (RR) to meet depositors needs
- Banks must keep reserve deposits in their vaults or at their district FED
- Total Reserves ( total funds held by the bank) equals to Required Reserves + Excess Reserves
- Banks can only lend out their excess reserves 




Bonds vs. Stocks- 03/22/17

Bonds vs. Stocks- 03/22/17


Bonds:
-Loans or IOU’s that represent debt that the government or a corporation must repay to an investor
-The Bond holder has NO OWNERSHIP of the company

How are the values of bond determined?
-First, if a corporation issues then sells a bond, it’s liability for the corporation and asset for the buyer
-If nominal interest rate increases, bonds decrease

Stocks:
-Stock owners can profit in two ways
    1) Dividends: portions of a corporation’s profits are paid out to stockholders
        -As the profit increases, the dividend increases
    2) Capital gain: earned when a stockholder sells stock for more than what he/she paid for it
        -Capital loss: when a stockholder sells stock at a lower price than the purchase price