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Why is it important that the country or region with the lower opportunity cost produce the good?
Discuss what are the three basic economic questions? How are decisions made differently in a market economy than in command economies?
Recently, the American Film Institute selected Citizen Kane. Do you think Hollywood will make more movies like Titanic or more like Citizen Kane? Why?
Why do people who live in countries experiencing rapid inflation often prefer to hold American dollars rather than their own country's currency? Explain.
Why would the increasing liquidity of savings accounts make some monetary economists track the size of M1 plus savings account balances (called MZM) over time?
If the required reserve ratio is 10 percent, calculate the potential change in demand deposits under the given circumstances.
Calculate the magnitude of the money multiplier if banks were to hold 100 percent of deposits in reserve. Would banks be able to create money in such a case?
How is central bank independence related to average inflation rates across countries? How is the Fed insulated from executive branch pressures?
Why does the fact that the Fed finances its operations out of interest earned on its portfolio, with the excess returned to the U.S. Treasury.
How does an open market purchase by the Fed increase bank reserves? How does it increase the money supply?
Why would the Fed seldom do an open market purchase of government securities at the same time that it raises the discount rate or the required reserve ratio?
Why is a reduction in the required reserve ratio such a powerful monetary policy tool? Why is it so seldom used?
Why would a reduction in the required reserve ratio not be a powerful tool when banks choose to hold substantial quantities of excess reserves?
Why would the transactions motive and the precautionary motive for holding money both tend to vary directly with the price level?
In the move from an above equilibrium interest rate to the equilibrium interest rate, what happens in the bond market and the loan market?
How does a higher price level affect the money market? How does it affect aggregate demand?
What is the equation of exchange? In the equation of exchange, if V doubled, what would happen to nominal GDP as a result?
Why would banks prefer to hold deposits as savings accounts rather than checking accounts, other things equal?
Indicate what would happen if an expansionary government policy occurred, but its inflationary effects were smaller than they were expected to be.
What happens if people begin to anticipate future monetary policy correctly based upon past experience?
Predict whether unemployment will increase or decrease as a result of each of the following monetary policies. If it is unanticipated? What if it is anticipated
What is happening to real wages? What would happen to unemployment as a result? What would happen to SRAS as a result?
Is there any way that, starting from a long-run stable price equilibrium, an increase in aggregate demand could result in an increase in unemployment and a decr
Why does a movement up and to the left along a Phillips curve correspond to a movement up and to the right along a short-run aggregate supply curve?
Why do economists who believe people form rational expectations have little faith that announced changes in monetary policy will have substantial effects on rea