Thursday 917
Mostly summarized from Gregory Mankiw’s Principles of Economics, 5th Ed. PART 10 Money and Prices in the Long Run Chapter 29 of 36 The Monetary System Section 17 of 20 … The Fed has three tools for changing the money supply -1- open-market operations -2- reserve requirements -3 - the discount rate … -2- Reserve Requirements The Fed can increase and decrease the money supply by changing bank reserve requirements. These are regulations on the minimum reserves amount banks must hold as a percentage of deposits. Reserve requirements influence how much money banks can create with each dollar of reserves. … For example · if the Fed reserve requirement is 10% · if people have deposited a total of $100 in a bank · the bank must keep $10 in reserves · and can loan out $90 · thereby increasing the money supply by $90 … An increase in reserve requirements means · banks must hold more reserves · banks can loan out less of each dollar deposited at them As a result, it · lowers the money multi...