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DSST Money And Banking
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1. Promotes economic efficiency by minimizing the time spent in exchanging goods and services
Commodity Money
banks and money supply
Medium of Exchange
Forms of Commercial Papers
2. 30 year maturities but not since 2001
Tbonds
Use present value calculations
direct impact
banks and money supply
3. Greater incentive to borrow and less to lend.
Bd > Bs
easily standardized - widely accepted - divisible and not deteriorate quickly
When real rate is low
Evolution of the Payment System
4. Pays owner of bond a fixed payment - until maturity when it pays off face par value
Interest rate
Tbonds
Keynesian Model
Coupon Bond
5. The upward and downward movement of aggregate output produced in the economy.
Interest rate
business cycle
federal funds rate
Long-run Movements
6. A bank loan typically used by a company to finance storage or shipment of goods. This bank draft is like a check - and guarantees future payment. These securities are active in the Secondary Market
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7. Less accurate but is less difficult to calculate. It always understates the yield to maturity and becomes more severe the longer the maturity.
Term structure theory
Long-Term Maturities (Bond Market)
Yield on a Discount Basis
Corporate Bond Default risk
8. Expectations theory forms the foundation of the slope of the curve. Liquidity Premium Theory makes Long Term permanent modifications that suggests an up ward slopping curve. Over short periods - relatives supplies of securities have an impact on yiel
Real world obervations
Term structure theory
Together
financial markets/institutions
9. Producing an efficient allocation of capital - which increases production
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
central bank
Yield Curve
Real world obervations
10. Crucial role in creation of money
banks and money supply
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
Unit of Account
recession
11. Does not deal directly with the public and responsible for executing of the national monetary policy; implements policy by altering money supply and influencing bank behavior.
central bank
easily standardized - widely accepted - divisible and not deteriorate quickly
Price vs Yields to Maturity
Yield Curve
12. (Nominal) Interest Rate that is adjusted for expected changes in the price level. The more accurately reflects true cost of borrowing.
unemployment rate
Discount (zero coupon) Bond
recession
Real Interest Rate
13. Relationship among yields of different maturities of hte same type of security.
Upward Slops
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
Interest rate
Term Structure
14. Used to measure value in the economy
Unit of Account
The Expectation Approach
bond market (money markets)
Income
15. Real interest rate: the real interest rate actually realized.
When real rate is high
Long-run Movements
unemployment rate
Ex Post
16. The total collection of pieces of property that serve to store value
The Preferred Habitat Approach
Wealth
Present Discount Value
T-Notes
17. Restrictions on Entry - Restrictions on Assets and Activities - Disclosure - Deposit Insurance - Limits on competition - and restriction on interest rates.
Commodity Money
financial markets
How do regulations ensure the soundness of Financial Intermediaries?
Income
18. Reduces adverse selection - moral hazard - and insider trading.
foreign exchange market
role of money
Regulations increase information available to investors which does what?
Evolution of the Payment System
19. Lower excess demand and lower price will rise and interest rates will fall
Evolution of the Payment System
Term structure theory
Bd > Bs
function of financial markets
20. Prices of Long-Term securities are more volatile possibly suffer Capital Loss if owner needs to sell security prior to maturity. Prefer to hold Short-term securities for liquidity. Suggests Long term rates will always be higher than short term.
increases in money supply causes
Term structure theory
The Liquidity Premium Modification
financial markets/institutions
21. Long-Term debt instruments of Corporations which are held 2-30 years. These securities have excellent credit ratings and pay interest two times a year and pay at maturity. These can be redeemed for shares of stock.
Discount (zero coupon) Bond
Downward Slopes
Corporate Bonds
Flat yield curves
22. The over the counter market. Equity shares offered by companies that don't meet listing requirements for major stock exchanges - or choose not to be listed there - and instead are traded in decentralized markets.
OTC
Humped Yield Curves
bond
increases in money supply causes
23. Instrumental in moving funds between countries
Slope upward
foreign exchange market
Long-Term Maturities (Bond Market)
The Expectation Approach
24. Less than one year and service current liquidity needs
federal funds rate
financial markets/institutions
Short-Term Maturity
recession
25. They have a higher interest-rate risk.
The Expectation Approach
Fixed Payment-Loan
Why returns are more volatile for Long-Term bonds
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
26. Purchase financial assets which lowers interest rates which stimulates business investment and consumer spending
bond market (money markets)
indirect impact
Present Discount Value
Wealth
27. A higher level of income causes the demand for money at each interest rate to increase and the demand curve to shift to the right.
Income effect
Corporate Bond Default risk
T-Notes
Use present value calculations
28. A dollar paid to you one year from now is less valueable than a dollar paid to you today
Present Discount Value
Bd > Bs
How do regulations ensure the soundness of Financial Intermediaries?
Hs a greater upward shift
29. It determines the equilibrium interest rate in terms of the supply of land demanded for money . People store their wealth in money and bonds. If the market for money is in equilibrium (Ms=Md) then the bond markets are also in equilibrium (Bs=Bd)
Keynesian Model
Money Market
The Liquidity Premium Modification
Interest rate
30. Excess liquidity is spent on goods and services
direct impact
easily standardized - widely accepted - divisible and not deteriorate quickly
Hs a greater upward shift
OTC
31. It will shift it to the right.
Long-run Movements
Expected Return
Downward
What will an increase in the money supply engineered by the Federal Reserve do to the supply curve for money?
32. Short-Term Debt Instruments
Yield Curve
function of financial markets
Money Market
hyperinflation
33. If the short-term interest rates are high than the yield curve slopes?
Velocity
Yield Curve
tax structure
Downward
34. No interest- rate risk
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35. Held for one- ten years.
Repo
Interest rate
who determines our money supply
T-Notes
36. Alters publics liquidity and influences spending through portfolio adjustment
Term Structure
increases in money supply causes
Eurocurrency Market
Fiat Money
37. The relationship between yield and maturity is...
Regulations increase information available to investors which does what?
Not constant
Keynesian Model
Expected Return
38. Allowing consumers to time their purchases better.
Store of Value
How Financial Markets directly improve the well-being of consumers
financial markets/institutions
T-Bills
39. Praises rising at a fast and furious pace
Yield Curve
Not constant
interest rate
hyperinflation
40. Periods of declining aggregate output - unemployment high - investment is low.
Federal Funds Market
recession
Supply and Demand for Bonds
How do regulations ensure the soundness of Financial Intermediaries?
41. How interest rates on bonds of different maturities move over time
Commodity Money
Together
Regulations increase information available to investors which does what?
hyperinflation
42. Long-Term Debt and Equity Instruments
Simple Loan
Capital Markets
When real rate is low
foreign exchange market
43. 3 -6 -12 month securities with no explicit one payment and is sold at a discount. These securities are highly liquid - and can be traded in the secondary market. These are some of the safest securities.
Fiat Money
banks and money supply
inflation
T-Bills
44. A rise in the price level causes the demand for money at each interest rates to increase and the demand curve to shift to the right.
Downward
OTC
Bd < Bs
Price-level effect
45. Most Common
Upward Slops
business cycle
indirect impact
Together
46. Fixed payment (incorporating part of the principal and interest payment) paid over a period of time
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
Coupon Bond
Bd > Bs
Fixed Payment-Loan
47. A share of ownership in a corporation
easily standardized - widely accepted - divisible and not deteriorate quickly
Forms of Commercial Papers
common stock
Long-run Movements
48. The degree of uncertainty associated with the return on one asset relative to alternative assets.
Risk
Why returns are more volatile for Long-Term bonds
Real world obervations
Not constant
49. If short-term interest rates are low than the yield curve slopes...
The Expectation Approach
Upward
foreign exchange market
Downward
50. What will investors expect for taking on higher default risk?
The Expectation Approach
Upward Slops
Wealth
Higher Returns