The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets

Frederic S. Mishkin

Chapter 1

Why Study Money, Banking, and Financial Markets? - all with Video Answers

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Chapter Questions

Problem 1

What is the typical relationship between interest rates on three-month Treasury bills, long-term Treasury bonds, and Baa corporate bonds?

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Problem 2

What effect might a fall in stock prices have on business investment?

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Problem 3

What effect might a rise in stock prices have on consumers" decisions to spend?

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Problem 4

Why are financial markets important to the health of the economy?

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Problem 5

What was the main cause of the recession that began in $2007 ?$

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Problem 6

What is the basic activity of banks?

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Problem 7

What are the other important financial intermediaries in the economy besides banks?

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Problem 8

Can you think of any financial innovation in the past ten years that has affected you personally? Has it made you better off or worse off? Why?

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Problem 9

Has the inflation rate in the United States increased or decreased in the past few years? What about interest rates?

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Problem 10

If history repeats itself and we see a decline in the rate of money growth, what might you expect to happen to
a. real output?
b. the inflation rate?
c. interest rates?

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Problem 11

When interest rates decrease, how might businesses and consumers change their economic behavior?

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Problem 12

Is everybody worse off when interest rates rise?

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Problem 13

Why do managers of financial institutions care so much about the activities of the Federal Reserve System?

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Problem 14

How does the current size of the U.S. budget deficit compare to the time period since $1950 ?$

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Problem 15

How does a fall in the value of the pound sterling affect British consumers?

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Problem 16

How does an increase in the value of the pound sterling affect American businesses?

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Problem 17

How can changes in foreign exchange rates affect the profitability of financial institutions?

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Problem 18

According to Figure $8,$ in which years would you have chosen to visit the Grand Canyon in Arizona rather than the Tower of London?

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Problem 19

When the dollar is worth more in relation to currencies of other countries, are you more likely to buy American-made or foreign-made jeans? Are U.S. companies that manufacture jeans happier when the dollar is strong or when it is weak? What about an American company that is in the business of importing jeans into the United States?

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Problem 20

Much of the U.S. government debt is held as treasury bonds and bills by foreign investors. How do fluctuations in the dollar exchange rate affect the value of that debt held by foreigners?

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Problem 21

The following table lists foreign exchange rates between U.S. dollars and British pounds (GBP) during April.
$$\begin{array}{ll}
\text { Date } & \text { U.S. Dollars per GBP } \\
\hline 4 / 1 & 1.9564 \\
4 / 4 & 1.9293 \\
4 / 5 & 1.914 \\
4 / 6 & 1.9374 \\
4 / 7 & 1.961 \\
4 / 8 & 1.8925 \\
4 / 11 & 1.8822 \\
4 / 12 & 1.8558 \\
4 / 13 & 1.796 \\
4 / 14 & 1.7902 \\
4 / 15 & 1.7785 \\
4 / 18 & 1.7504 \\
4 / 19 & 1.7255 \\
4 / 20 & 1.6914 \\
4 / 21 & 1.672 \\
4 / 22 & 1.6684 \\
4 / 25 & 1.6674 \\
4 / 26 & 1.6857 \\
4 / 27 & 1.6925 \\
4 / 28 & 1.7201 \\
4 / 29 & 1.7512 \\
\hline
\end{array}$$
Which day would have been the best to convert $\$ 200$ into British pounds? Which day would have been the worst? What would be the difference in pounds?

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