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Financial journalist Joe Nocera observed about the decision of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury not to help save Lehman Brothers:Ever since that weekend, most people, including me, have viewed
What was the main function of the Federal Reserve Bank originally intended to be?
What was peculiar about the division of the Federal Reserve Bank into different districts?
How do the Federal Reserve Banks engage in monetary policy both directly and indirectly?
What changes did the Dodd-Frank Act make to the Fed?
Why did Congress pass the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, when the United States had functioned without a central bank since 1836?
Why did Congress want the member banks to own the Federal Reserve Banks? Does the current relationship between the member banks and the Federal Reserve Banks indicate that Congress achieved its goal?
Suppose that Bank of America pays a 2% annual interest rate on checking account balances while having to meet a reserve requirement of 10%.Assume that the Fed pays Bank of America an interest rate of
What is the composition of the Fed’s Board of Governors?
Is Michael McAvoy’s explanation of how the Federal Reserve Bank cities were selected more consistent with a public interest view of how the decision was made or a principal-agent view?Briefly
Are the high rates of inflation that the United States experienced during the 1970s consistent with the public interest view of the Fed’s motivation?
In late 2009, during the debate over the Dodd-Frank Act, a newspaper article noted:Last summer, the central bank hired an experienced Democratic hand and former lobbyist, Linda Robertson, to help
In a speech, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke argued that: “Democratic principles demand that, as an agent of the government, a central bank must be accountable in the pursuit of its mandated goals,
What is the Federal Open Market Committee?What is its main function?
In October 2012, a newspaper article describing a meeting between ECB President Mario Draghi and members of the German parliament quoted Draghi as saying that in deciding to buy sovereign debt, the
A newspaper article in 2012 referred to “growing expectations the Bank of Japan, pressed by the government, will take a large-scale easing step next week.” It also noted that: “Japan’s
Name the three principle actors who determine the money supply.
What do you understand by the term “currency in circulation”? How is different from vault cash?Explain the relationship between vault cash and bank reserves.
An article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Why the Fed’s Balance Sheet Is Shrinking,” observed that: “As people pay back their mortgages . . .the Fed’s holdings of mortgage backed
In August 2010, the Federal Reserve announced that as the mortgage-backed securities it owns matured, it would reinvest the funds by buying U.S. Treasury securities. How would these actions affect
In the fall of 2012, an article in the New York Times speculated that the Federal Reserve “could announce a new round of asset purchases, expanding its balance sheet for the third time since
Define the term “required reserve ratio.”
How does the Fed change the monetary base of the financial system through the use of open market operations? Where are these operations carried out and which securities are involved in these
Suppose that Bank of America lends $100,000 to Jill’s Jerseys. Using T-accounts, show how this transaction is recorded on the bank’s balance sheet. If Jill’s spends the money to buy materials
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal:“The identity of who buys gold has changed radically.. . . Just five years ago, jewelry accounted for two-thirds of gold demand. Last year, it
An article in the New York Times noted that many people are increasing the types of investments in their retirement accounts beyond just stocks and bonds to include gold:“This is nothing but
What are non-banking financial intermediaries?List the different types and briefly explain their role in connecting savers with borrowers in the financial system.
Name and briefly explain the three key components of a modern financial system.
Briefly explain the process of asset securitization in the financial system.
In a talk at the White House in December 2009, President Barack Obama argued, “Ultimately in this country we rise and fall together: banks and small businesses, consumers and large
An article in the New York Times in mid-2012 noted, “with the economy still struggling and new regulations meant to eliminate bad lending, bank loans continue to lag.”a. What does the article
Households have a much larger fraction of their savings in stocks than in bonds. Can you think of reasons why this is the case?
What is money? Why do we need money?
List the qualities necessary for an asset to be suitable as a medium of exchange.
Is money the same as wealth? If not, distinguish between the two with examples of both, and explain the main difference between money, wealth, and income.
In 2009, the government of North Korea announced that it was replacing the existing currency with a new currency. The government would allow people to exchange only a limited amount of the old
If there were a decrease in the efficiency of the payments system, what would be the cost to the economy?
Is the United States likely to become a “cashless society”? Briefly explain.
Suppose that debit cards, ATMs, ACH transactions, and other forms of electronic funds transfers did not exist. How would this change the way you shop and pay bills? How would transactions costs in
What are monetary aggregates? Distinguish between M1 and M2 as measures of monetary aggregates.
Since 1975, which measure of the money supply has grown more rapidly, M1 or M2? Briefly explain why. Has the growth of M1 been more or less stable than the growth rate of M2?
In a report, investment analyst Ned Davis referred to gold as “real money.” Is gold used as money in the United States? What point was Davis making?
Why might households and firms in a foreign country prefer to use U.S. dollars rather than their own country’s currency in making transactions?What advantages or disadvantages do foreign
Explain whether you agree with the following statement:The Federal Reserve believes that two-thirds of the currency included in M1 is actually outside the United States. If this is correct, then M1
What is the cause of hyperinflation?
If during 2013 the money supply increases by 4%, the inflation rate is 2%, and the growth of real GDP is 3%, what must have happened to the value of velocity during 2013?
Prior to 2009, Zimbabwe experienced several years of declining real GDP. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, “After Zimbabwe abandoned its currency in favor of the greenback, the
In late 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke wrote the following in a column published in the Washington Post: [Proposals in Congress to reduce the independence of the Fed] are very much out
State and local governments typically offer their employees defined benefit pension plans. Under these plans, employees are promised a fixed monthly payment after they retire. A government’s
At the end of 2011, Jose Reyes signed a sixyear contract to play shortstop for the Miami Marlins baseball team. (Reyes was later traded by the Marlins to the Toronto Blue Jays.) The contract was
What is a perpetuity? How is it different from a regular coupon bond?
What is the significance of current yield on a coupon bond? Explain with an example.
Suppose that Ed Scahill owns a farm in a small town. In exchange for allowing a road to pass through his farmland, the town has agreed to pay Ed and future owners of the land $135 per year in
Briefly explain what you understand by yield to maturity.
Explain the importance of yield to maturity for investors.
An article in the New York Times discussing mortgage-backed bonds observed: “When demand for the bonds rises, which translates into lower interest rates on them, banks can offer homeowners lower
In recent years, both Coca-Cola and Walt Disney have issued bonds with 100-year maturities. Why would any investor buy a bond with such a long maturity, given that the investor is unlikely to still
Suppose that on January 1, 2013, you purchased a coupon bond with the following characteristics:Face value: $1,000 Coupon rate: 8 3/8 Current yield: 7.5%Maturity date: 2015 If the bond is selling for
Suppose that on January 1, 2013, the price of a one-year Treasury bill is $970.87. Investors expect that the inflation rate will be 2% during 2013, but at the end of the year, the inflation rate
An article in the New York Times notes that “rising bond yields can … signal the threat of inflation.”Briefly explain why, if investors expect inflation to be higher, the yields on bonds will
What is meant by diversification? Why do investors need to have diversified portfolios?
An article in the Wall Street Journal observed that “investment pros” recommend that “individual investors spread their bets, pointing out those who bet the house on hot performers often end up
An article in the Economist magazine observes:“It is in the nature of black-swan-like events that they are near-impossible to predict.” What are black swan events? Why are they nearly impossible
An article in the Wall Street Journal reported the advice that a financial planner offered to a young single male who had most of his savings invested in seven stocks: “Even if he doesn’t plan to
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, economists Jeremy Siegel and Jeremy Schwartz made the following prediction: “We believe that when investors awake from their depressed state, they will realize
What are the main implications of the Fisher effect for bond markets?
In 2012, Spain had what the Wall Street Journal described as a “towering budget deficit.” When the Spanish government had difficulty selling bonds to investors, the European Central Bank
In 2012, an article in the Economist magazine recommended to investors that if economic growth and inflation remained low in the United States, the investors should buy bonds. But if inflation
An article in the New York Times in 2012 observed:Older Americans and other savers are just unintended casualties of policies aimed at other economic targets, particularly the policy making it easier
What do you understand by the term “world real interest rate”? How is it determined?
An article in the Economist magazine in 2012 observed:“America can now borrow from the bond market at a cheaper rate than at any time in the history of the republic.” Use the loanable funds model
What is default risk? Is it different from default risk premium?
List the different ways in which rating agencies measure the creditworthiness of a bond.
According to an article in the New York Times, in 2012, “everyone has piled into” the junk bond market. The article also observed,“The average yields on these bonds have dropped to 6.6 percent,
In 2012, Anheuser-Busch In Bev NV, maker of Budweiser and other beers, sold debt of varying maturities. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal:The three-year notes priced with a risk
According to an article in the New York Times, “It was the near universal agreement that potential conflicts were embedded in the [bond] ratings model.” What is the bond ratings model? What
Some economists have argued that one important role of rating agencies is to keep the managers of firms that issue bonds from using the funds raised in ways that would not be in the best interestsof
Suppose a candidate who runs on a platform of “soak the rich” wins the 2016 presidential election.After being elected, he or she persuades Congress to raise the top marginal tax rate on the
By 2012, actions by the Federal Reserve and other central banks had driven shortterm interest rates close to zero. One portfolio manager was quoted as saying: “The market has heard … central
State whether each of the following statements is true or false. Provide a proof if the statement is true or a counterexample if the statement is false.(a) If \(\widetilde{X}\) is a fair game with
This exercise explores the properties of two recently proposed riskiness indices: the Aumann and Serrano (AS 2008) index and the Foster and Hart (FH 2009) index.A decision maker is characterized by
In racetrack betting, a \(\$ 1\) bet placed at odds of 5:1 pays \(\$ 6\) if you win, and \(\$ 0\) if you lose. The odds ratio in this example is 5 . A gambler who believes that he has inside
Consider an investor who chooses a portfolio to maximize his expected utility of wealth next period, where the utility function is power (CRRA) with coefficient of relative risk aversion \(\gamma\).
Consider a set of \(N\) risky assets and, for parts (a)-(c), no riskless asset.(a) Prove that for any minimum-variance portfolio \(p\), except the global minimumvariance portfolio, the expected
Assume that the Sharpe-Lintner CAPM holds, so the mean-variance efficient frontier consists of combinations of Treasury bills and the market portfolio. Nonetheless, some households make the mistake
Consider a frictionless one-period economy with multiple risky assets and a riskfree asset with return \(R_{f}\). Let \(R_{p}\) denote the return to the risky portfolio of an agent who trades off the
Consider a static frictionless economy with a riskless asset in zero net supply with return \(R_{f}\), and \(n\) risky assets with jointly normal returns \(R_{i}, i=1 \ldots n\). Suppose the risky
(a) Consider a cross-sectional regression of stock returns onto a constant (normalized to unity). Show that the regression coefficient is the return on a portfolio. What portfolio?(b) Suppose that,
In this exercise, you are asked to explore some classic issues from the empirical literature on stock market returns. The data for this question can be found in an Excel spreadsheet on the textbook
The martingale method for portfolio choice, introduced in section 4.1.5, uses the SDF framework to characterize the optimal state-contingent payoffs that agents can attain through financial markets,
Suppose that a set of assets are correctly priced by a stochastic discount factor \(M\). An economist uses a false asset pricing model in which the stochastic discount factor is a random variable \(Y
Hansen and Richard (1987) show that an arbitrary gross return \(1+R_{i}\) can be decomposed aswhere \(R^{*}, Z^{*}\), and \(\varepsilon_{i}\) are random variables and \(w_{i}\) is a scalar. This
This exercise asks you to complete the GMM derivation in section 4.4 .3 of the standard asymptotic time-series test statistic (3.45). Use of the Kronecker product will be particularly useful. The
Consider an economy where the dividends on the aggregate stock market are expected to grow at a constant rate:where \(\eta_{t+1}\) has mean zero and variance \(\sigma^{2}\).The stochastic discount
In this exercise we study empirically whether the out-of-sample stock market return predictability of well-known valuation ratios can be improved by imposing simple theoretical restrictions on the
In this problem we derive and explore the theoretical and empirical implications of a lower bound on the forward-looking expected equity premium, derived by Martin (2017). The lower bound is the
In this problem we explore what information about the underlying economy we can recover from Arrow-Debreu state prices. \({ }^{10}\) Assume the existence of a representative agent with time separable
Long-run risk models offer a solution to the main asset pricing puzzles by assuming that there exists a representative agent with Epstein-Zin preferences with moderately high risk aversion and a high
Consider an infinite-horizon representative-agent economy. The representative agent has Epstein-Zin utility. Consumption, expected future consumption, and returns on all assets are jointly
A representative agent in an endowment economy has power utility with time discount factor \(\delta\) and coefficient of relative risk aversion \(\gamma\). The \(\log\) of the endowment, \(c_{t}\),

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