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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: A scientific society whose main mission is to advance science and innovation throughout the world. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS for short) publishes one of the most respected scientific magazines called Science. The association and magazine have nearly 140,000 individual and institutional subscribers, plus 272 affiliated organizations in more than 130 countries, serving a total of 10 million individuals. The American Association for the Advancement of Science was founded in 1848 to represent all disciplines of science and to support scientific exchange and discussion of science and society issues.
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Lesson 20: Federal Reserve System | Unit 4: Monetary Policy
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- That monetary policy is controlling the money creation activity of the fractional-reserve banking system to control deposits and the money supply.
- That expansionary monetary policy increases aggregate demand up to full employment and contractionary monetary policy decreases aggregate demand back to full employment.
- The four tools of monetary policy: open market operations, discount rate, reserve requirements, and moral suasion.
- How open market operations are used by the Fed to control the money supply.
- That the discount rate is used by the Fed to signal the intentions of the open market operations.
- That reserve requirements are the regulations the Fed uses to ensure banks keep enough reserves to back deposits.
- That moral suasion is a policy in which the Fed requests that the banking system take some sort of action.
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PLANNING HORIZON Another term for the long-run average cost curve. The long-run average cost curve is termed the planning horizon or planning curve because it provides information that a firm can use to plan factory construction and expansion in the long run.
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