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PROBLEMS

1. Identify which of money’s three traits each of the following

assets shares, and which trait each does not share:

(a) A house

(b) A day pass for an amusement park

(c) Russian rubles held by a resident of Dallas, Texas

(d) A painting

(e) Gold

2. Why will only the price level and money wages be

affected by a change in the money supply in the fullemployment

economy? How is the rate of inflation

related to the rate of growth of the money supply?

3. Down Home Savings has the following assets and liabilities:

$6 million in government bonds and reserves;

$40 million in deposits; $36 million in outstanding

loans. Draw up a balance sheet for the bank. What is

its net worth?

4. While gardening in his backyard, Bob finds a mason jar

containing $100,000 in currency. After he deposits the

money in his bank, where the reserve requirement is

5 percent, by how much will the money supply eventually

increase? Suppose Bob decides to keep $5,000 of his

find as cash and deposits only $95,000 in his bank. By

how much will the money supply increase?

5. Why is it that the money supply changes when the Fed

sells government bonds to a bank but the money supply

does not change if a large corporation sells government

bonds to a bank?

6. In 1999, there was broad concern about the Y2K

computer problem. Banks and the Fed predicted that

many people would want to hold additional cash in case

there were financial problems on January 1, 2000. Use

the money multiplier analysis to predict what would

happen to deposits and the money supply if people

increased their holding of cash and the Fed kept total

reserves fixed.

634 ∂ CHAPTER 28 MONEY, THE PRICE LEVEL, AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE

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