Uncertainty may cause banks to hold larger excess reserves. Other things being constant, this will:
a. have no effect on the volume of loans or the money supply
b. tend to reduce both the volume of loans and the money supply.
c. tend to increase both the volume of loans and the money supply.
d. tend to increase the volume of loans but reduce the money supply.
b
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Decreasing marginal returns occur in the short run as more labor is hired to work in a fixed sized plant because
A) less efficient and less productive workers are hired. B) adding more workers exhausts the possible gains from specialization. C) the entrepreneur does not know how to manage more workers. D) each worker will produce more than the worker previously hired. E) the plant becomes less specialized.
Assume that the central bank sells government securities in the open market. If the nation has highly mobile international capital markets and a fixed exchange rate system, what happens to the real GDP and reserve-related (central bank) transactions in the context of the Three-Sector-Model? State your answer after the macroeconomic system returns to complete equilibrium
a. Real GDP remains the same and reserve-related (central bank) transactions becomes more negative (or less positive). b. Real GDP falls and reserve-related (central bank) transactions remains the same. c. Real GDP and reserve-related (central bank) transactions remain the same. d. Real GDP rises and reserve-related (central bank) transactions remains the same. e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.