Unit 4: Financial Sector
Macro · Unit 4 · Paper 1

Financial Sector unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 36 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 4, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 32 min 29 points0/17 attempted
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Quantity theory of money

2

Liquidity

3

Shifters of loanable funds demand

4

T-account

5

Shifters of loanable funds supply

6

Discount rate

7

Where savings deposits sit — and why sources disagree

8

Bond

9

Why bond prices and interest rates move inversely

10

Excess reserves

11

M2

12

Money supply curve

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Open market operations

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Money market equilibrium

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Required reserves

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Interest on reserve balances

3 pts

Free response

5 pts

SHORT FREE-RESPONSE. Assume the banking system in Kelvia has no excess reserves and the required reserve ratio is 10 percent. The central bank purchases $200 million of government bonds from commercial banks.

Calculate the immediate change in the excess reserves of the commercial banking system and explain your reasoning.

Calculate the maximum possible change in the money supply that could result, showing your work.

Indicate whether the nominal interest rate in the money market rises, falls, or stays the same, and explain why using the money market.

Explain one reason the actual change in the money supply is likely to be smaller than the maximum you calculated in part (b).