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Question #1

A) List the tools used by the Federal Reserve to expand and contract the money supply and clearly explain how they work.

B) Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of each tool and explain which are used the most often and why.

Question #2

Suppose that the Federal Reserve was dissolved and replaced with a system of private banks that compete with each other. If you were overseeing this new industry, what would you do with the goal of making it work successfully?

Question #3

A) What are the short and long run effects of the Federal Reserve steadily increasing the money supply? How do we know when it is time to stop increasing the money supply and switch to another alternative?

B) What are the short and long run effects of the Federal Reserve steadily decreasing the money supply? How do we know when it is time to stop decreasing the money supply and switch to another alternative?

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Running head: Microeconomics

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Microeconomics
Question #1
A) List the tools used by the Federal Reserve to expand and contract the money supply
and clearly explain how they work.
The tools used by Federal Reserve to expand and contract money supply include; openmarket operations, discount rates and reserve requirements.
Open market operation involves buying and selling federal government securities.
The reserve requirement. A change in reserve ratio is of great impact in regulation of
money in federal government. Lowering the ratios increases the banks’ lending rate and
consequently raising the money supply and also the reverse is true.
On the discount rate, serve...


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