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MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO CONSUME: The proportion of each additional dollar of household income that is used for consumption expenditures. Or alternatively, this is the change in consumption expenditures due to a change in disposable income. Abbreviated MPC, the marginal propensity to consume is the slope of the consumption or propensity-to-consume line that forms the foundation for Keynesian economics. As such, it also takes center stage for the slope of the aggregate expenditure line and the multiplier effect. The sum of the marginal propensity to consume and the related concept, the marginal propensity to save, is equal to one.
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Lesson 20: Federal Reserve System | Unit 4: Monetary Policy
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Open Market Operations
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Open market operations are the most important tool of monetary policy.- The Federal government budget deficit is financed by issuing or selling U.S. Treasury Securities, which are traded through the open market.
- Banks, corporations, government agencies, pension funds and regular people are the buyers and sellers in this 'open market' for Treasury Securities.
- Treasury Securities are low risk investments.
Two major players in the open market: - Commercial Banks: They use secure investments to ensure bank stability.
- Federal Reserve: They buy and sell treasury securities with the expressed goal of manipulating bank reserves and the money supply.
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SLOPE, PRODUCTION POSSIBILITIES CURVE The numerical value of the slope of the production possibilities curve, which illustrates the alternative combinations of two goods that an economy can produce with given resources and technology, is the opportunity cost of producing the good measured on the horizontal axis.
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PTA
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