Thursday, April 7, 2016

Graphs and Banking Systems

Demand Graph

  • Demand for money increase inverse w/nominal interest rate and quantity of money (Q decreases, I increases and vice versa)
  • Shifters: Change in
    • PL
    • Income
    • in taxation after investment

Money Supply

  • Affects AD when increased: -> r down, Ig up, AD up (Vertical)
  • Decreases - Goes Left: MS down, r up, Ig down, AD down

Financial Sector

  • Fin. Assets - Stocks and bonds provide expected future benefits
    • Benefits owner from issuer of asset meeting certain obligations
  • Fin. Liabilities - Incurred by issuer of fin. asset to stand behind issued asset
  • Interest Rate - $ paid to use fin. asset
  • Stocks - Fin. asset that represent ownership in a company
  • Bonds - Promise to pay $ and interest in the future

Banks

  • Fin. Intermediary - use liquid assets to fund investments of borrowers -> Fractional Reserve Banking
    • Liquid assets include currency in bank vaults and bank reserves
  • Banks create money by lending out deposits that are used multiple times
  • When a customer deposits cash or withdraws cash from their demand deposit account, it has NO EFFECT ON THE MONEY SUPPLY
    • It only changes...
      • The composition of money
      • Excess Reserves
      • Required Reserves
  • Changes in Money Supply for....
    • Single Bank
      • Loan money from ER
    • Banking System
      • ER x Money multiplier (1/RR) -> Total Money Supply
  • When the FED buys or sells bonds, ER is created

Basic Accounting Review

  • T-Account (Balance Sheet) - Lists assets and liabilities
  • Assets (Amounts owned) - Items claimed legally by bank; use of funds by fin. intermediary
    • Included in assets
      • Required Reserves - % of DD in vault
      • Excess Reserves - Remaining % of DD used for loans
      • Property - Statement of a bank's property values
      • Securities or Bonds - Previously purchased bonds held by the banks as investments
      • Loans - Previously loaned funds now owed back to the bank
  • Liabilities (Amounts owed) - Legal claims against a bank; sources of funds.
    • Included in liabilities
      • Demand Deposits - Cash deposits from the public to the bank
        • Part of MS if from person's cash holdings
        • Becomes new $ if from a bond -> MS up
      • Owner's equity or stock shares - Values of the bank stocks as held by the public
  • DD = RR + ER

Federal Reserve Banks

  • Functions
    1. Uses paper $
    2. Set reserve requirement and holds bank reserves
    3. Lends $ to banks and charges interest
    4. Check-clear service for banks
    5. Personal bank for government
    6. Supervises member banks
    7. Controls money supply in the  economy
  • Reserve Requirement - Fed needs banks to always have $ to meet demand
    • Amount = Reserve Ratio - % of DD locked to bank

Scenario 1

A private citizen takes cash that they possess and put it into a bank account
  • The cash placed into the bank is already part of the money supply
  • The deposit is counted as a bank liability
  • A % must be placed into required reserve
  • The remainder is placed into excess reserve
  • The bank will want to lend all of the ER, if possible
  • The amount in ER is multiplied by the monetary multiplier
  • This will be assumed to become new loans in the banking system
  • This will be counted as the change in money supply

Scenario 2

  • The Fed buys bonds back from the public
  • The public now has new cash
  • This new cash is new loans
  • Assume that the public puts the cash into demand deposits
  • A set percentage is placed into required reserve
  • The remainder becomes excess reserve
  • Excess reserve is multiplied by the money multiplier (1/RR)
  • This amount becomes new loans and is new money supply
  • The total change in money supply is the amount of demand deposits plus the new loan amounts

Scenario 3

  • The Fed buys bonds back from the member banks
  • The banks now have new ER
  • No money is needed to be placed in RR, since this is not owed to the public
  • All of these ER are multiplied by the monetary multiplier
  • This amount becomes new loans
  • This amount is the change in the money supply

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting the Scenarios. Number 3 really helped me understand that if the FED is involved that there is no ER or RR.

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  2. Thanks for posting the Scenarios. Number 3 really helped me understand that if the FED is involved that there is no ER or RR.

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