Consider an open market purchase by the Fed of $5 billion of Treasury bonds. What is the

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Consider an open market purchase by the Fed of $5 billion of Treasury bonds.

What is the impact of the purchase on the bank from which the Fed bought the securities.

Compute the impact on M1 assuming that (1) the required reserve ratio is 10 percent, (2) the bank does not wish to hold extra reserves, and (3) the public does not wish to hold currency.

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Money Banking And Financial Markets

ISBN: 9781260226782

6th Edition

Authors: Stephen Cecchetti, Kermit Schoenholtz

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