Defensive Open Market Transactions

question 76

Multiple Choice

Defensive open market transactions

• A) are aimed at achieving changes in monetary policy.
• B) are used much less frequently than dynamic open market transactions.
• C) are used to offset disturbances to the supply or demand for reserves.
• D) make it easy to deduce the Fed's intentions for monetary policy.

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