The Advent of Interest-Earning Checking Accounts in the Early 1980s

question 26

Essay

The advent of interest-earning checking accounts in the early 1980s led many households to keep a larger proportion of their income in checking accounts. Use the aggregate demand- aggregate supply model to illustrate graphically the impact in the short run and the long run of this change in money demand. Be sure to label: i. the axes; ii. the curves; iii. the initial equilibrium values; iv. the direction the curves shift; v. the short-run equilibrium values; and
vi. the long-run equilibrium values. State in words what happens to prices and output in the short run and the long run.

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Definitions:

Moral Philosophy

The branch of philosophy concerned with discussing what is morally right and wrong, and why human actions and intentions are evaluated as good or evil.

Deontology

A branch of ethics that judges the morality of an action based on the action's adherence to rules or duties.

Cognitive Moral Development

A theory proposed by Lawrence Kohlberg that suggests individuals move through different stages of moral reasoning as their cognitive abilities mature.

Kohlberg

Refers to Lawrence Kohlberg, an American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development.