Money and Banking
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1. The spread between the interest rates on bonds with default risk and default-free bonds is called the

2. A credit market instrument that provides borrowers with an amount of funds that must be repaid as the maturity date along with an interest payment is known as:

3. The monetary base consists of:

4. The nine directors of the federal reserve banks are split into three categories:_____ are professional bankers, ____ are leaders from industry, and ___ are to represent the public interest and are not allowed to be officers, employees, or stockholders of banks.

5. The Fed prefers that ______ so that ______

6. To make velocity faster:

7. Open market purchases ____ reserves and the monetary base thereby _____ the money supply.

8. According to the expectations theory of the term structure:

9. Saving money

10. Effective lag

11. Which of the following can be described as involving direct finance?

12. The segmented markets theory can explain

13. Recognition lag:

14. The president from which Federal Reserve Bank always has a vote in the Federal Open Market Committee?

15. Everything else held constant, when stock prices become ____ volatile, the demand curve for bonds shifts to the _____ and the interest rate ____.

16. The mandate for the monetary policy goals that has been given to the Federal Reserve System is an example of a _____ mandate.

17. Suppose that from a new checkable deposit, FIrst National Bank holds two million dollars in vault cash, eight million dollars on deposit with the Federal Reserve, and one million dollars in required reserves. Given this information, we can say First National Bank faces a required reserve ratio of ___ percent.

18. The time and money spend in carrying out financial transactions are called:

19. The Federal Reserve banks of ____plays a special role in the Federal Reserve System because it houses the open market desk:

20. What makes aggregate demand go up?

21. The yield to maturity for a discount bond is ______ related to the current bond price.

22. Aggregate demand goes up

23. High interest rates might _____ purchasing a house or car but the same time high interest rates might ______ saving.

24. Patrick places his pocket change into his savings bank on his desk each evening. By his actions, Patrick indicates that he believes that money is a:

25. According to the expectations theory of the term structure