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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