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