2010]Reading 28: An Overview of Central Banks LOSB习题精选 single, 2010, decrease, achieve, central

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LOS b: Discuss monetary policy and the tools utilized by central banks to carry out monetary policy.

A country is experiencing a core inflation rate of 7% during a recessionary period of real GDP growth. If the central bank has a single mandate to achieve price stability and uses inflation targeting with an acceptable range of zero to 4%, its monetary policy response is most likely to decrease:

A) GDP growth in the short run.

B) short-term interest rates.

C) the foreign exchange value of the country’s currency.

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If the central bank has a price stability mandate, it will most likely respond to the above-target inflation rate by decreasing the money supply, even though GDP growth is in a recessionary phase. Decreasing the money supply will result in higher short-term interest rates and appreciation of the currency, but will likely cause GDP growth to decrease further in the short run.

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If a bank needs to borrow funds from the Federal Reserve to fund a temporary shortage in reserves, it would borrow funds at the:

A) federal funds rate.

B) prime rate.

C) discount rate.

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Banks are able to borrow from the Fed at the discount rate. The federal funds rate is the interest rate banks charge other banks to borrow reserves from other banks. The prime rate is the rate that commercial banks charge their best customers.

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If a country’s economy is growing at an unsustainably rapid rate and the central bank decreases its target overnight interest rate, the country’s:

A) long-term rate of economic growth will increase.

B) expected rate of inflation is likely to decline.

C) inflation rate is likely to increase.

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The central bank should increase target interest rates when the economy is growing at an unsustainable (above-full-employment) level. Decreasing the target overnight rate is likely to further increase aggregate demand and cause inflation to accelerate, which will be detrimental to the long-term growth rate of the economy.

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c

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c

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