Assume that the government increases spending and finances the expenditures by borrowing in the domestic capital markets. If the nation has highly mobile international capital markets and a flexible exchange rate system, what happens to the quantity of real loanable funds per time period and reserve-related (central bank) transactions in the context of the Three-Sector-Model?

a. The quantity of real loanable funds per time period falls, and reserve-related (central bank) transactions remain the same.
b. The quantity of real loanable funds per time period rises, and reserve-related (central bank) transactions become more positive (or less negative).
c. The quantity of real loanable funds per time period falls, and reserve-related (central bank) transactions become more negative (or less positive).
d. The quantity of real loanable funds per time period rises, and reserve-related (central bank) transactions remain the same.
e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.

.D

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