The Total Demand for Money Is Equal to the Transactions

question 26

Essay

The total demand for money is equal to the transactions demand plus the asset demand for money.(a) Assume that each dollar held for transactions purposes is spent on the average five times per year to buy final goods and services.If nominal GDP is $1,000 billion (or $1 trillion), what is the transactions demand?
(b) The table below shows the asset demand at certain rates of interest.Using your answer to part (a), complete the table to show the total demand for money at various rates of interest. (c) If the money supply is $260 billion, what will be the equilibrium rate of interest?
(d) If the money supply rises, will the equilibrium rate of interest rise or fall?
(e) If GDP rises, will the equilibrium rate of interest rise or fall?

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Definitions:

Price Elasticity of Demand

Price elasticity of demand measures how the quantity demanded of a good or service changes in response to a change in its price, indicating its sensitivity to price changes.

Unitary

A property of elasticity where a change in price causes a proportional change in the quantity demanded or supplied, with an elasticity coefficient of 1.

Incidence

Refers to the impact or burden of a tax, how it is distributed among various participants in the market.

Price Elasticity of Supply

A measure of how much the quantity supplied of a good responds to a change in the price of that good, quantitatively defined as the percentage change in quantity supplied divided by the percentage change in price.