Describe how financial innovation has affected the demand for money
What will be an ideal response?
Financial innovation is the development by depository institutions of new financial products and changing technology within the banking industry. Examples include daily interest checking deposits, automatic transfers of money between deposits, ATM's and credit cards. In general these innovations have allowed the public to be more flexible in their choices between cash and less liquid assets as banks have delivered greater liquidity without forgoing interest earned. The result has been a large decrease in the demand for M1 and a smaller decrease in the demand for M2.
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An expansionary monetary policy results in lower interest rates, which in turn
A) reduces the international price of the dollar and increases net exports. B) increases the foreign demand for U.S. financial instruments, lowering the international price of the dollar and decreasing net exports. C) reduces the foreign demand for U.S. financial instruments and reduce net exports. D) increases foreign demand for U.S. financial instruments, raising the international price of the dollar and reducing net exports.
The production possibilities frontier illustrates the
A) maximum combinations of goods and services that can be produced. B) resources the economy possess, but not its level of technology. C) goods and services that people want. D) limits to people's wants. E) amount of each good that people want to buy.