In the market for reserves, if the federal funds rate is between the discount rate and the interest rate paid on excess reserves, a decline in the reserve requirement ________ the ________ curve of reserves and causes the federal funds interest rate

to fall, everything else held constant. A) decreases; demand
B) increases; demand
C) increases; supply
D) decreases; supply

A

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