K E Y T E R M S
You will find the answers to the questions marked with
an asterisk in the Textbook Resources section of your
MyEconLab.
*1. Unemployment is a bad thing, and the government
should make every effort to eliminate it. Do you
agree or disagree? Explain your answer.
2. Classify each of the following as either a policy
instrument or an intermediate target, and explain
why.
a. The three-month treasury bill rate
b. The monetary base
c. M2
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*3. If the demand for reserves did not fluctuate, the
Bank of Canada could pursue both a money supply
target and an interest-rate target at the same time.
Is this statement true, false, or uncertain? Explain
your answer.
4. If the Bank of Canada has an interest-rate target,
why will an increase in the demand for reserves
lead to a rise in the money supply?
*5. What procedures can the Bank of Canada use to
control the overnight funds rate? Why does control
of this interest rate imply that the Bank will lose
control of nonborrowed reserves?
6. Compare the monetary base to M2
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on the grounds
of controllability and measurability. Which do you
prefer as an intermediate target? Why?
*7. Interest rates can be measured more accurately and
more quickly than reserve aggregates. Hence an
interest rate is preferred over the reserve aggregates
as a policy instrument. Do you agree or disagree?
Explain your answer.
8. What are the benefits of using a nominal anchor for
the conduct of monetary policy?
9. Give an example of the time-inconsistency problem
that you experience in your everyday life.
10. What incentives arise for a central bank to fall into
the time-inconsistency trap of pursuing overly
expansionary monetary policy?
*11. What are the advantages of monetary targeting as a
strategy for the conduct of monetary policy?
12. What is the big
if
necessary for the success of mon-
etary targeting? Does the experience with monetary
targeting suggest that the big
if
is a problem?
*13. What methods have inflation-targeting central
banks used to increase communication with the
public and increase the transparency of monetary
policymaking?
14. Why might inflation targeting increase support for
the independence of the central bank to conduct
monetary policy?
*15. Because the public can see whether a central
bank hits its monetary targets almost immediately,
whereas it takes time before the public can see
whether an inflation target is achieved, monetary
targeting makes central banks more accountable
than inflation targeting does. Is this statement true,
false, or uncertain? Explain your answer.
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