Sunday, March 23, 2014

Video Notes

Video 1: Types and Functions of Money
3 types of money
  • ·         Commodity – goods that act as money
  • ·         Representative – coins and dollars
  • ·         Flat money – government’s word

3 main functions
  • ·         Medium of exchange
  • ·         Storage of value
  • ·         Unit of account


Video 2: Money Market Graphs
Money supply
  • ·         Constant, controlled by the interest rates and government.
  • ·         Vertical, not based off of interest rates
  • ·         Increase demand = increase interest rates

The law of demand – if the price is high quantity demanded is low, if price is low quantity demanded is high

Video 3: The Fed’s tools of monetary policy
The gov’t uses two options regarding changes in the money supply
  • ·         Contractionary (tight money)
  • ·         Expansionary (easy money)

Contractionary fiscal policy
  • ·         Reserve rate will ↑
  • ·         Discount rate will ↑
  • ·         Gov’t will sell bonds and securities

Expansionary fiscal policy
  • ·         Reserve rate will ↓
  • ·         Discount rate will ↓
  • ·         Gov’t will buy bonds and securities




Video 4: The Loanable funds Market
Loadable funds graph
  • ·         Supply curve is completely dependent on saving
  • ·         If more people save, then more loans are available
  • ·         If gov’t is in a deficit then demand for loans will increase, which leads to a decrease in supply of loans
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Video 5: Money creation and multiple deposit expansion
Money is created when banks make loans
To find how much money a loan creates you must:
  • ·         Find the multiplier – (1/RR)
  • ·         Multiply by the loan amount = multiple deposit expansion

Example
·         RR = 20%
·         (1/.2)=5
·         5(500) = 2500


Video 6: Relating Money market, loanable funds market, AD/AS model

Exchange – MV = PQ
·         Increase in demand for money increases price level

·         Increase in demand for money increases interest rate, which causes the demand curve to increase resulting in the price levels to increase as well as GDPin AD/AS graphs 

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