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DSST Money And Banking
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Reduces adverse selection - moral hazard - and insider trading.
Regulations increase information available to investors which does what?
Term Structure
Flat yield curves
Humped Yield Curves
2. The upward and downward movement of aggregate output produced in the economy.
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Hs a greater upward shift
business cycle
direct impact
3. Real interest rate: the real interest rate actually realized.
Ex Post
recession
Together
Regulations increase information available to investors which does what?
4. More than 10 year maturities
Money Market
Fixed Payment-Loan
Long-Term Maturities (Bond Market)
Function of Financial Intermediaries
5. Allows transfer of funds from person or business without investment opportunities to one who has them - improves economic efficiency.
function of financial markets
Higher Returns
Real world obervations
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
6. Pays owner of bond a fixed payment - until maturity when it pays off face par value
Income effect
Coupon Bond
central bank
financial markets
7. 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.
Fixed Payment-Loan
Fisher Effect
Interest rate
Supply and Demand for Bonds
8. It will shift it to the right.
What will an increase in the money supply engineered by the Federal Reserve do to the supply curve for money?
Together
Medium of Exchange
business cycle
9. 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.
Together
Yield Curve
Long-run Movements
OTC
10. The interest rate at which private depository institutions lend balances to other depository institutions usually over night
Slope upward
federal funds rate
When real rate is high
Capital Markets
11. Restrictions on Entry - Restrictions on Assets and Activities - Disclosure - Deposit Insurance - Limits on competition - and restriction on interest rates.
function of financial markets
How do regulations ensure the soundness of Financial Intermediaries?
Repo
Tnotes
12. The relationship between yield and maturity is...
Supply and Demand for Bonds
Not constant
What will an increase in the money supply engineered by the Federal Reserve do to the supply curve for money?
T-Bills
13. Influence on business cycle - inflation - interest rates
Supply and Demand for Bonds
Store of Value
Real world obervations
monetary policy
14. Investors are concerned about the after tax return on bonds
bond market (money markets)
tax structure
Fixed Payment-Loan
T-Bills
15. Lower the equilibrium price and interest rate.
Bd = Bs
Real Interest Rate
T-Bills
Not constant
16. The percent of available labor force unemployed
Income
Forms of Commercial Papers
Upward
unemployment rate
17. 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.
inflation
Price vs Yields to Maturity
Interest rate
financial markets
18. The higher the default risk means the yield curve...
Use present value calculations
function of financial markets
How do regulations ensure the soundness of Financial Intermediaries?
Hs a greater upward shift
19. 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.
financial markets/institutions
recession
Upward Slops
Corporate Bonds
20. The increase in the price of set goods and services in a given economy over a period of time - the percent change.
increases in money supply causes
inflation
Yield on a Discount Basis
Eurocurrency Market
21. Many lead to more employment and output
Velocity
increasing money supply
federal funds rate
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
22. Financial instruments whose return is based on the underlying returns on mortgage loans.
Bd = Bs
Mortgage-Backed Securities
What will an increase in the money supply engineered by the Federal Reserve do to the supply curve for money?
tax structure
23. Supply and demand concept for different maturities will establish the specific rates for each maturity range. Changes in supply and demand can cause the rates to get out of line with expectations. However investors will drop preferred habitat if rate
Money Market
Term Structure
inflation
The Preferred Habitat Approach
24. 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
Commodity Money
How Financial Markets directly improve the well-being of consumers
bond market (money markets)
25. Instrumental in moving funds between countries
Downward Slopes
Forms of Commercial Papers
foreign exchange market
role of money
26. 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
Why Revisions are issued to money data
Federal Funds Market
Term structure theory
Ex Post
27. Purchase financial assets which lowers interest rates which stimulates business investment and consumer spending
Foreign Bonds
indirect impact
Ex Ante
How do regulations ensure the soundness of Financial Intermediaries?
28. Determines interest rates
Corporate Bonds
role of money
Real world obervations
bond market (money markets)
29. 4 -13 -26 -52 week maturities. Sold at zero coupon rates
Tbonds
Corporate Bonds
T-Bills
financial markets
30. The return expected over the next period on one asset relative to the alternative asset.
Fiat Money
Expected Return
Wealth
Interest rate
31. Bond denominated in a currency other than that of the country in which it is sold.
central bank
role of money
Not constant
Eurobond
32. Yield to maturity; a measure of an interternporal price
Interest rate
Slope upward
central bank
Intermediate-term Maturity (Capital Market)
33. A share of ownership in a corporation
When real rate is low
common stock
bond market (money markets)
hyperinflation
34. 30 year maturities but not since 2001
Yield to Maturity for simple loans
Tbonds
The Expectation Approach
common stock
35. The market for loanable funds: (or equivalently - the market for bonds) determines R. One-for-One
Medium of Exchange
central bank
Fisher Effect
Velocity
36. Less than one year and service current liquidity needs
increasing money supply
function of financial markets
Short-Term Maturity
Flat yield curves
37. Small depository institutions report infrequently and adjustments must be made for seasonal variations
Long-Term Maturities (Bond Market)
bond
Why Revisions are issued to money data
Federal Funds Market
38. Precious Metals or another valueable commodity
financial markets/institutions
T-Notes
Commodity Money
Bd < Bs
39. 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.
Short-Term Maturity
Present Discount Value
Income effect
Bd < Bs
40. 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.
bond market (money markets)
Federal Funds Market
central bank
Yield Curve
41. Long-Term Debt and Equity Instruments
Price-level effect
T-Notes
Capital Markets
How do regulations ensure the soundness of Financial Intermediaries?
42. The degree of uncertainty associated with the return on one asset relative to alternative assets.
Hs a greater upward shift
Risk
Income effect
Why Revisions are issued to money data
43. Markets bonds - loans - and deposits denominated in the currency of a given nation but held and traded outside that nations borders.
Eurocurrency Market
role of money
tax structure
Term Structure
44. Held ten years or more. They pay semiannual dividends and return of principal at maturity.
Money Market
T-Bonds
Use present value calculations
Bd > Bs
45. Most Common
Yield on a Discount Basis
Eurobond
Foreign Bonds
Upward Slops
46. They channel funds from savers to investors - thereby promoting economic efficiency
tax structure
financial markets
Expected Return
Bd = Bs
47. One to Ten year maturities which fund long-term capital investments
foreign exchange market
Store of Value
Long-run Movements
Intermediate-term Maturity (Capital Market)
48. 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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49. No interest- rate risk
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50. Lower excess demand and lower price will rise and interest rates will fall
Real Interest Rate
Bd > Bs
Store of Value
Eurocurrency Market