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DSST Money And Banking
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1. The return expected over the next period on one asset relative to the alternative asset.
Repo
Bd < Bs
Why returns are more volatile for Long-Term bonds
Expected Return
2. Promotes economic efficiency by minimizing the time spent in exchanging goods and services
Medium of Exchange
role of money
Price vs Yields to Maturity
Corporate Bonds
3. No interest- rate risk
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4. Used to save purchasing power; most liquid of all assets but loses value during inflation
Simple Loan
Store of Value
The Preferred Habitat Approach
Slope upward
5. Bringing together of buyers and sellers of financial securities to establish prices; includes banks - savings and loans - credit unions - investment banks - and brokers - mutual funds - and bond markets.
financial markets/institutions
Fisher Effect
Long-run Movements
Ex Ante
6. If short-term interest rates are low than the yield curve slopes...
Interest rate
Upward
inflation
T-Notes
7. Comparing payoffs at different points in time
Ex Post
Use present value calculations
recession
Federal Funds Market
8. It will shift it to the right.
Why returns are more volatile for Long-Term bonds
What will an increase in the money supply engineered by the Federal Reserve do to the supply curve for money?
Ex Ante
Certificate of Deposit
9. Principal plus interest paid to lender at given maturity date
Function of Financial Intermediaries
Price vs Yields to Maturity
Intermediate-term Maturity (Capital Market)
Simple Loan
10. Markets bonds - loans - and deposits denominated in the currency of a given nation but held and traded outside that nations borders.
Why returns are more volatile for Long-Term bonds
Eurocurrency Market
Income effect
Present Discount Value
11. Currency + Traveler's Checks+ Demand Deposits + Other checkable deposits
Upward Slops
M1
Store of Value
When real rate is high
12. The interest rate at which private depository institutions lend balances to other depository institutions usually over night
Short-Term Maturity
Simple Loan
Banker's Acceptance
federal funds rate
13. Seller will buy back the asset at a later date and typically at a higher price. These securities are usually government securities and are used by banks and Large Corporations.
Not constant
Repo
When real rate is high
Eurobond
14. The percent of available labor force unemployed
unemployment rate
Real Interest Rate
Why returns are more volatile for Long-Term bonds
Downward Slopes
15. Most Common
Corporate Bonds
central bank
Risk
Upward Slops
16. Lower transaction costs - reduce risk - asymmetric information.
Price vs Yields to Maturity
Upward Slops
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
Function of Financial Intermediaries
17. Real interest rate: the real interest rate people expect at the time they buy a bond or tax out a loan.
Ex Ante
Higher Returns
OTC
Slope upward
18. Restrictions on Entry - Restrictions on Assets and Activities - Disclosure - Deposit Insurance - Limits on competition - and restriction on interest rates.
How do regulations ensure the soundness of Financial Intermediaries?
The Preferred Habitat Approach
Store of Value
Term structure theory
19. 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
recession
The Liquidity Premium Modification
Term structure theory
Capital Markets
20. Relationship among yields of different maturities of hte same type of security.
function of financial markets
OTC
Upward Slops
Term Structure
21. Fixed payment (incorporating part of the principal and interest payment) paid over a period of time
Fixed Payment-Loan
Downward
The Preferred Habitat Approach
Tbonds
22. Lower excess demand and lower price will rise and interest rates will fall
Banker's Acceptance
Bd > Bs
Wealth
Tbonds
23. One to Ten year maturities which fund long-term capital investments
Bd = Bs
tax structure
Intermediate-term Maturity (Capital Market)
Slope upward
24. The higher the default risk means the yield curve...
Eurocurrency
Hs a greater upward shift
banks and money supply
interest rate
25. Purchase financial assets which lowers interest rates which stimulates business investment and consumer spending
indirect impact
hyperinflation
Intermediate-term Maturity (Capital Market)
Ex Post
26. Held for one- ten years.
Commodity Money
Present Discount Value
Unit of Account
T-Notes
27. Allowing consumers to time their purchases better.
Expected Return
The Liquidity Premium Modification
increasing money supply
How Financial Markets directly improve the well-being of consumers
28. Take the form of promissory notes - drafts - checks - and CDs
Forms of Commercial Papers
Banker's Acceptance
What will an increase in the money supply engineered by the Federal Reserve do to the supply curve for money?
Interest rate
29. The degree of uncertainty associated with the return on one asset relative to alternative assets.
Risk
monetary policy
Bd < Bs
Interest rate
30. Influence on business cycle - inflation - interest rates
Store of Value
Money Market
monetary policy
central bank
31. 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
Unit of Account
Expected Return
Evolution of the Payment System
32. Nominal interest rate is not adjusted for inflation.
Interest rate
Certificate of Deposit
Regulations increase information available to investors which does what?
Together
33. The total collection of pieces of property that serve to store value
Store of Value
foreign exchange market
Wealth
financial markets
34. Higher default risk compared to municipal Bonds
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
Corporate Bond Default risk
Term Structure
recession
35. They channel funds from savers to investors - thereby promoting economic efficiency
Tbonds
Term structure theory
financial markets
Risk
36. At lower prices (higher i) - ceteris paribus - the quantity demanded of bonds is higher- an inverse relationship ' ' the quantity supplied of bonds is lower- a positive relationship.
Not constant
Supply and Demand for Bonds
What will an increase in the money supply engineered by the Federal Reserve do to the supply curve for money?
Flat yield curves
37. Held ten years or more. They pay semiannual dividends and return of principal at maturity.
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
T-Bonds
bond
who determines our money supply
38. Greater incentive to borrow and less to lend.
When real rate is low
Ex Post
Yield Curve
business cycle
39. The relationship between yield and maturity is...
When real rate is low
Together
Downward
Not constant
40. Anything that is generally accepted in payment for goods or services or in the repayment of debts; a stock concept
financial markets/institutions
Fixed Payment-Loan
When real rate is high
Money (money supply)
41. The market for loanable funds: (or equivalently - the market for bonds) determines R. One-for-One
When real rate is high
Money (money supply)
Yield Curve
Fisher Effect
42. Flow of earnings per unit of time
financial markets
What will an increase in the money supply engineered by the Federal Reserve do to the supply curve for money?
Income
Present Discount Value
43. The rate at which money circulates and the number of times the average dollar bill changes hands in a given time period
tax structure
Velocity
Repo
hyperinflation
44. Intermediate Yields are highest
Humped Yield Curves
Eurocurrency
Evolution of the Payment System
role of money
45. 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.
Price-level effect
Price vs Yields to Maturity
Bd < Bs
The Liquidity Premium Modification
46. When bond is at par - the yield equals the coupon rate. The price and yield are negatively related. The yield greater than coupon rate when bond price is below par.
Bd < Bs
Ex Ante
common stock
Price vs Yields to Maturity
47. 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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48. Cost of borrowing money - expressed as a percentage of the amount borrowed per year.
interest rate
Present Discount Value
T-Bonds
increasing money supply
49. Foreign currencies deposited in banks outside the home country.
increasing money supply
Velocity
Eurocurrency
The Expectation Approach
50. Allows transfer of funds from person or business without investment opportunities to one who has them - improves economic efficiency.
indirect impact
function of financial markets
Function of Financial Intermediaries
Mortgage-Backed Securities