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The Demand for Money
• To keep our model simple, we will ignore the time trend in velocity
• The demand for money can be expressed as
Md
Y
P V0 Vi (r e)
– if money balances were placed in some other asset, they would earn the prevailing market real interest rate (r)
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– money demand is inversely related to the nominal interest rate
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The Demand for Money
Questions
• What is money-market equilibrium? • What is the LM curve? • What determines the equilibrium level
of real GDP when the central bank policy is to keep the money supply constant? • What is the IS-LM framework?