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Chapter 9
The Financial System, Money, and Prices
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Learning Objectives
1. Discuss the three functions of money and how money is measured
2. Analyze how the lending behavior of commercial banks affects the money supply
3. Understand the central bank control of the money supply and its relation to inflation in the long run
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Money Money is any asset that can be used in making
purchases Examples include coins and currency, checking
account balances, and traveler's checks Shares of stock are not money
Money has three principal uses1. Medium of exchange2. Unit of account3. Store of value
Money makes barter unnecessary Barter is trading goods directly
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Measuring Money Definitions of money range from narrow to broad
M1 ($B) $1,364.7Currency $758.1
Demand deposits 292.5
Other checkable deposits 307.9
Traveler's checks 6.2
M2 ($B) $7,498.7M1 $1,364.7
Savings deposits 3,903.4
Small-denomination time notes 1,224.4
Money market mutual funds 1,006.1
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Commercial Banks Create Money Republic of Gorgonzola begins with no banking system Government issues 1 million guilders Banks are created to store cash
Payments are made by withdrawing cash or writing checks
Without interest, banks earn profits by charging depositors fees
Citizens prefer bank deposits to cash for making transactions
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Consolidated Bank Balance Sheet – Part 1 All guilders (g) are deposited
Bank reserves are cash or similar assets held by banks Used to meet depositors' withdrawals and payments Gorgonzola's banks have 100% reserves
100% reserve banking is when banks' reserves equal 100% of their deposits
Assets LiabilitiesCurrency 1,000,000 g Deposits 1,000,000 g
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Bank Reserves Cash in a bank's vault is not part of the money supply Unavailable for payments Bank deposits available for use in transactions are
part of the money supply Depositing a $100 bill in your checking account
does not change the money supply Bankers realize that inflows and outflows from vaults
leave some guilders unused Only 10% of deposits are needed for transactions 90% can be lent to borrowers for a fee -- interest
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Consolidated Bank Balance Sheet – Part 2 Currency held in the vault is the bank reserves
The reserve – deposit ratio is bank reserves divided by total deposits
Fractional reserve banking system holds less bank reserves than deposits The reserve – deposit ratio is less than 100%
Assets LiabilitiesCurrency 100,000 g Deposits 1,000,000 gLoans 900,000 g
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Consolidated Bank Balance Sheet – Part 3 Farmers borrow 900,000 guilders to buy supplies Farmers spend the 900,000 guilders which are then
deposited in the banks
Bank deposits are the entire money supply Loan of 900,000 guilders increased the money
supply by 900,000 guilders Banks are again holding excess reserves on deposits
of 1,900,000 guilders
Assets LiabilitiesCurrency 1,000,000 g Deposits 1,900,000 gLoans 900,000 g
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Consolidated Bank Balance Sheet – Part 4 With deposits of 1,900,000 guilders and a reserve –
deposit ratio of 10%, banks want only 190,000 guilders in reserves Currently holding 1,000,000 guilders Loan 810,000 guilders
Loan are spent and re-deposited Excess reserves are created and re-loaned
Assets LiabilitiesCurrency 1,000,000 g Deposits 2,710,000 gLoans 1,710,000 g
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Consolidated Bank Balance Sheet – The End Expansion of loans and deposits stops when reserves
are 10% of deposits 1,000,000 guilders available as reserves Deposits stabilize at 10,000,000 guilders
Beginning with 1,000,000 guilders in cash, the money supply is now 10,000,000 guilders
Assets LiabilitiesCurrency 1,000,000 g Deposits 10,000,000 gLoans 9,000,000 g
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Money Creation With 10% reserves, each guilder supports 10 guilders
in deposits The general case of money creation with fractional
reserve banking is
Solving for bank deposits we get
Bank reservesBank deposits = Desired reserve-deposit ratio
Bank reservesDesired reserve-deposit ratioBank deposits =
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Money Supply with Currency and Deposits Gorgonzola residents hold 500,000 guilders as
currency Deposit 500,000 guilders in the banks Reserve-deposit ratio = 10% Bank deposits = 500,000 / 0.10 = 5,000,000 guilders Money supply = 500,000 cash + 5,000,000 deposits
= 5,500,000 guilders
Money supply = Currency held by public +
Bank reservesDesired reserve-deposit ratio
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Bank Panics, 1930 - 1933 One-third of the banks closed Increased the severity of the Great Depression Difficult for small businesses and consumers to get
credit Money supply decreased
With no federal deposit insurance, people held cash Feared banks would close and they would lose their
deposits Holding cash reduced banks' reserves
Lower reserves decreases the money supply by a multiple of the change in reserves
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Bank Panics, 1930 - 1933 Banks increased their reserve – deposit ratio Further decreased the money supply
DateCurrency Held by
Public ($B)
Reserve – Deposit Ratio
Bank Reserves
($B)
Money Supply
($B)12 / 1929 3.85 0.075 3.15 45.912 / 1930 3.79 0.082 3.31 44.112 / 1931 4.59 0.092 3.11 37.312 / 1932 4.82 0.109 3.18 34.012 / 1933 4.85 0.133 3.45 30.8
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Deposit Insurance Congress created deposit insurance in 1934 Deposits of less than $100,000 will be repaid even if
the bank is bankrupt Decreases incentive to withdraw funds on rumors
No significant bank panics since 1934 With less risk, depositors pay less attention to whether
banks are making prudent investments In the 1980s, many savings and loan associations
went bankrupt Cost the taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars
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The Federal Reserve System The Fed is the central bank of the US Responsible for monetary policy and the oversight
and regulation of financial markets Monetary policy is deciding and managing the size of
the nation's money supply Money supply is controlled indirectly
Open-market purchase of government bonds from the pubic by the Fed increases bank reserves and the money supply
Open-market sale of government bonds by the Fed to the public decreases reserves and money supply
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Open Market Operations When the Fed purchases a bond from the public Fed pays bond holder with new money
Receipts are deposited and this leads to a multiple expansion of the money supply
When the Fed sells a bond to the public Bondholder pays with checking funds
Bank reserves decrease and this leads to a multiple contraction of the money supply
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Increasing the Money Supply An economy has 1,000 shekels in currency and bank
reserves of 200 shekels Reserve-deposit ratio = 0.2 Money supply = 1,000 + (200 / 0.2) = 2,000 shekels
Central bank pays 100 shekels for a bond held by the public Assume that all 100 shekels are deposited Money supply = 1,000 + (300/ 0.2) = 2,500 shekels 100 shekel increase in reserves leads to a 500
shekel increase in the money supply
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Money and Prices In the long run, the amount of money circulating and
the level of prices are closely linked Sustained high inflation rates occur with a
comparably high growth rate of the money supply
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Velocity of Money (V) Velocity is the speed money changes hands in
transaction for final goods and services
Nominal GDP is the price level (P) times real GDP (Y) M is the money supply
Velocity = Nominal GDPMoney supply
V = PY M
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Velocity in the US, 2007 M1 = $1,364.2 billion M2 = $7,447.1 billion Nominal GDP = $13,843.0 billion Using M1, velocity is 10.15
Using M2, velocity is 1.86
Velocity is determined by a number of factors including technology such as ATMs and debit cards
V = $13,843.01,364.2 = 10.15
V = $13,843.07, 447.1 = 1.86
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Money and Inflation in the Long Run Quantity equation states MV = PY Restatement of the velocity definition The quantity equation relates the money supply to price
levels Suppose velocity and real GDP are constant
The quantity equation becomes
An increase in the money supply by a given percentage would increase prices by the same percentage
V and Y, respectively
M V = P Y
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Approximating a Percentage Change
M V = P Y% change in (M V) = % change in (P Y)
The percentage change in a product is the sum of the percentage changes in each variable
Consequently % change in M + % change in V ≈
% change in P + % change in Y If the M grows 4% per year and V grows 1% per year,
nominal GDP (P Y) grows approximately 5% per year If Y grows 3% per year, then the percentage change
in price is approximately 2% per year
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Financial System
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Federal Reserve System
Open Market Operations
Quantity Equation