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Ch 18 3.5 Demand management: monetary policy: complete notes
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A quick look at the chapter from our IB Diploma Economics notes. The full chapter notes have the detailed explanations, diagrams and practice questions with answers.
Topics in this chapter
- What you must be able to do
- Goals of monetary policy
- How a change in the interest rate works through the economy
- Interest rates, money and AD: summary chain
- How commercial banks create money
- Tools of monetary policy
- Strengths and limitations for each objective
- Linking to other topics
“I can” checklist: what you must be able to do
- I can define monetary policy and describe the role of the central bank.
- I can explain the goals of monetary policy, including inflation targeting.
- I can calculate the real interest rate and explain the difference from the nominal rate.
- HL: I can explain how commercial banks create money.
- HL: I can explain open market operations, reserve requirements, minimum lending rate changes and quantitative easing.
- HL: I can draw and explain the money market and the determination of the equilibrium interest rate.
- I can draw AD/AS diagrams showing expansionary and contractionary monetary policy closing gaps.
- I can evaluate the effectiveness of monetary policy: constraints, strengths, and effects on growth, unemployment and inflation.
What is inside the full chapter notes
- Concept notes with 8 worked examples (every number computed)
- AD/AS diagrams for both policies; money market diagrams (HL)
- Common mistakes and a "How to score" command-term box
- 12 Quick-check questions A-D, explained
- Paper 1 style (a) 10 + (b) 15 with mark scheme
- Paper 2 style data response (36 marks) with mark scheme
- HL Paper 3 style policy question (15 marks) with mark scheme
- Markbands, quick reference and "I can" checklist
What you get in the pack
- All 30 topics of IB Diploma Economics for students taking Standard Level or Higher Level (first assessment 2022): what economics is, demand, supply, market equilibrium, behavioural economics, elasticity, government intervention, externalities, public goods, asymmetric information, market power, equity, measuring economic activity, aggregate demand and supply, macroeconomic objectives, inequality and poverty, monetary policy, fiscal policy, supply-side policies, international trade, trade protection, economic integration, exchange rates, balance of payments, sustainable development, measuring development, growth and development strategies
- Every syllabus statement covered in order, each marked SL or HL, with clear notes, tables and diagrams drawn for these notes
- Every diagram the guide names, drawn and labelled, plus worked examples and model answers that show how to earn the marks
- Quick-check multiple-choice questions with explained answers, plus original Paper 1 (extended response), Paper 2 (data response) and, for HL, Paper 3 (policy) style questions with full mark schemes (no past-paper reprints)
- Common mistakes and a how-to-score command-term guide for every topic
- Quick-reference sheet and an "I can" checklist at the end of every topic
- Colour PDF and a black and white copy of every chapter for printing
- Independent notes for IB Diploma students; not endorsed by or affiliated with the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO)
All chapters in this pack
- Ch 1 1.1-1.2 What is economics? and How do economists approach the world?
- Ch 2 2.1 Demand
- Ch 3 2.2 Supply
- Ch 4 2.3 Competitive market equilibrium
- Ch 5 2.4 Critique of the maximizing behaviour of consumers and producers
- Ch 6 2.5 Elasticity of demand
- Ch 7 2.6 Elasticity of supply
- Ch 8 2.7 Role of government in microeconomics
- Ch 9 2.8 Market failure: externalities and common pool resources
- Ch 10 2.9 Market failure: public goods
- Ch 11 2.10 Market failure: asymmetric information (HL)
- Ch 12 2.11 Market failure: market power (HL)
- Ch 13 2.12 The market's inability to achieve equity (HL)
- Ch 14 3.1 Measuring economic activity and illustrating its variations
- Ch 15 3.2 Aggregate demand and aggregate supply
- Ch 16 3.3 Macroeconomic objectives
- Ch 17 3.4 Economics of inequality and poverty
- Ch 18 3.5 Demand management: monetary policy
- Ch 19 3.6 Demand management: fiscal policy
- Ch 20 3.7 Supply-side policies
- Ch 21 4.1 Benefits of international trade
- Ch 22 4.2 Types of trade protection
- Ch 23 4.3 Arguments for and against trade control and protection
- Ch 24 4.4 Economic integration
- Ch 25 4.5 Exchange rates
- Ch 26 4.6 Balance of payments
- Ch 27 4.7 Sustainable development
- Ch 28 4.8 Measuring development
- Ch 29 4.9 Barriers to economic growth and/or economic development
- Ch 30 4.10 Economic growth and/or economic development strategies