Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, The, Business School Edition (5th Edition) (What's New in Economics)
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Chapter 17, Problem 8Q
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If the statement - FED can perfectly control the amount of monetary base, but has less control over the composition of monetary base” is true, false or uncertain.

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The sum of banking reserves and the currency in circulation is referred to as high-powered money or monetary base. Monetary base is different from money supply, which is the FED’s measure of money that is monetary aggregate.

It is only to a certain limit by interest rates, open market operations, and other such quantitative tools that Federal Reserve can control the amount of monetary base. At the end, it is the banks that decide how much they should borrow from the Federal System or how much they should hold. The people could decide how to hold their money in the deposits, so the statement Fed perfectly controls the amount of monetary base is incorrect.

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