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Chapter 16
1. What distinguishes money from other assets in the economy?
2. What is commodity money? What is fiat money? Which kind do we use?
3. What are demand deposits and why should they be included in the stock of money?
4. Who is responsible for setting monetary policy in the United States? How is this group
chosen?
5. If the Fed wants to increase the money supply with open-market operations, what does it
do?
6. Why don't banks hold 100-percent reserves? How is the amount of reserves banks hold
related to the amount of money the banking system creates?
7. Bank A has a leverage ratio of 10, while Bank B has a leverage ratio of 20. Similar losses on
bank loans at the two banks causes the value of their assets to fall by 7 percent. Which bank
shows a larger change in bank capital? Does either bank remain solvent? Explain.
8. What is the discount rate? What happens to the money supply when the Fed raises the
discount rate?
9. What are reserve requirements? What happens to the money supply when the Fed raises
reserve requirements?
10. Why can't the Fed control the money supply perfectly?
Chapter 17
1. Explain how an increase in the price level affects the real value of money.
2. According to the quantity theory of money, what is the effect of an increase in the quantity
of money?
3. Explain the difference between nominal variables and real variables and give two examples
of each. According to the principle of monetary neutrality, which variables are affected by
changes in the quantity of money?
4. In what sense is inflation like a tax? How does thinking about inflation as a tax help explain
hyperinflation?
5. According to the Fisher effect, how does an increase in the inflation rate affect the real
interest rate and the nominal interest rate?
6. What are the costs of inflation? Which of these costs do you think are most important for
the U.S. economy?
7. If inflation is less than expected, who benefits—debtors or creditors? Explain