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DSST Money And Banking
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1. Most Common
Upward Slops
increasing money supply
Wealth
Mortgage-Backed Securities
2. If short-term interest rates are low than the yield curve slopes...
OTC
Upward
increasing money supply
Medium of Exchange
3. Precious Metals or another valueable commodity
hyperinflation
Commodity Money
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Expected Return
4. The upward and downward movement of aggregate output produced in the economy.
business cycle
monetary policy
tax structure
Fisher Effect
5. The degree of uncertainty associated with the return on one asset relative to alternative assets.
Velocity
Bd < Bs
Risk
Bd > Bs
6. The interest rate at which private depository institutions lend balances to other depository institutions usually over night
Long-Term Maturities (Bond Market)
Wealth
Slope upward
federal funds rate
7. Instrumental in moving funds between countries
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
T-Bills
Term structure theory
foreign exchange market
8. The market for loanable funds: (or equivalently - the market for bonds) determines R. One-for-One
Capital Markets
Expected Return
Simple Loan
Fisher Effect
9. Rare
OTC
Repo
Downward Slopes
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
10. Fixed payment (incorporating part of the principal and interest payment) paid over a period of time
financial markets/institutions
federal funds rate
Yield to Maturity for simple loans
Fixed Payment-Loan
11. Alters publics liquidity and influences spending through portfolio adjustment
Present Discount Value
increases in money supply causes
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
Kind of risk for a bond that's maturity equals the holding period
12. No interest- rate risk
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13. The central bank
who determines our money supply
hyperinflation
Fisher Effect
Medium of Exchange
14. 4 -13 -26 -52 week maturities. Sold at zero coupon rates
Corporate Bond Default risk
bond market (money markets)
T-Bills
who determines our money supply
15. Allowing consumers to time their purchases better.
Supply and Demand for Bonds
Use present value calculations
Upward Slops
How Financial Markets directly improve the well-being of consumers
16. 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
Term structure theory
When real rate is low
interest rate
The Liquidity Premium Modification
17. Promotes economic efficiency by minimizing the time spent in exchanging goods and services
Tnotes
Medium of Exchange
Hs a greater upward shift
hyperinflation
18. If the short-term interest rates are high than the yield curve slopes?
Ex Ante
Downward
Humped Yield Curves
Long-run Movements
19. 30 year maturities but not since 2001
Expected Return
Risk
Tbonds
Function of Financial Intermediaries
20. Anything that is generally accepted in payment for goods or services or in the repayment of debts; a stock concept
Term structure theory
Income
When real rate is high
Money (money supply)
21. Comparing payoffs at different points in time
direct impact
Use present value calculations
Why Revisions are issued to money data
Not constant
22. 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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23. Investors are concerned about the after tax return on bonds
Risk
Kind of risk for a bond that's maturity equals the holding period
financial markets/institutions
tax structure
24. It will shift it to the right.
Flat yield curves
What will an increase in the money supply engineered by the Federal Reserve do to the supply curve for money?
indirect impact
Expected Return
25. The higher the default risk means the yield curve...
Hs a greater upward shift
Flat yield curves
financial markets/institutions
Not constant
26. What kind of movements should we pay attention to in money supply numbers?
Bd = Bs
Higher Returns
Long-run Movements
Foreign Bonds
27. Intermediate Yields are highest
Flat yield curves
monetary policy
Humped Yield Curves
T-Notes
28. Flow of earnings per unit of time
Income
Corporate Bonds
When real rate is high
T-Bonds
29. Paper currency - has no real value
Simple Loan
Bd > Bs
Yield to Maturity for simple loans
Fiat Money
30. 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.
Certificate of Deposit
central bank
financial markets/institutions
Use present value calculations
31. Determines interest rates
Regulations increase information available to investors which does what?
hyperinflation
common stock
bond market (money markets)
32. Purchase financial assets which lowers interest rates which stimulates business investment and consumer spending
Why returns are more volatile for Long-Term bonds
Flat yield curves
indirect impact
Eurocurrency Market
33. The percent of available labor force unemployed
bond market (money markets)
business cycle
unemployment rate
federal funds rate
34. Relationship among yields of different maturities of hte same type of security.
Intermediate-term Maturity (Capital Market)
federal funds rate
interest rate
Term Structure
35. Nominal interest rate is not adjusted for inflation.
Interest rate
Evolution of the Payment System
Yield Curve
Eurocurrency
36. How interest rates on bonds of different maturities move over time
Fiat Money
tax structure
Commodity Money
Together
37. The relationship between yield and maturity is...
Money Market
direct impact
Intermediate-term Maturity (Capital Market)
Not constant
38. When interest rates are high relative to past rates - investors expect them to decline and the prices of bonds to rise in the future resulting in big capital gains. Investors would then favor long term securities which drives up price and lowers yiel
Real world obervations
Together
How Financial Markets promote economic efficiency
banks and money supply
39. Reduces adverse selection - moral hazard - and insider trading.
Regulations increase information available to investors which does what?
The Expectation Approach
recession
Store of Value
40. Principal plus interest paid to lender at given maturity date
Eurocurrency Market
Simple Loan
Certificate of Deposit
M1
41. Interest rate that equates today's value with present value of all future payments.
Yield to Maturity for simple loans
Discount (zero coupon) Bond
Fisher Effect
Unit of Account
42. Sold in a foreign country and denominated in that country's currency.
Yield on a Discount Basis
Foreign Bonds
Corporate Bonds
Store of Value
43. The total collection of pieces of property that serve to store value
Wealth
who determines our money supply
hyperinflation
Why returns are more volatile for Long-Term bonds
44. 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.
Supply and Demand for Bonds
direct impact
Term Structure
How Financial Markets directly improve the well-being of consumers
45. Lower excess demand and lower price will rise and interest rates will fall
Bd > Bs
Simple Loan
foreign exchange market
business cycle
46. Banks borrow from and lend to each other deposits they hold at the Fed. These are very short term and usually only held over night.
Medium of Exchange
recession
Federal Funds Market
Corporate Bond Default risk
47. Currency + Traveler's Checks+ Demand Deposits + Other checkable deposits
When real rate is high
role of money
Long-run Movements
M1
48. Allows transfer of funds from person or business without investment opportunities to one who has them - improves economic efficiency.
Discount (zero coupon) Bond
Income effect
Yield on a Discount Basis
function of financial markets
49. Commodity Money - Fiat Money - Checks - Electronic Payment - E-Money
recession
Downward Slopes
Income effect
Evolution of the Payment System
50. Held for one- ten years.
T-Notes
When real rate is high
What will an increase in the money supply engineered by the Federal Reserve do to the supply curve for money?
inflation
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