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The Economics of Money, Banking, and

Financial Markets
Twelfth Edition, Global Edition

Chapter 22
The Monetary Policy and
Aggregate Demand Curves

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• This chapter develops an explanation for why monetary
policy makers put upward pressure on interest rates when
inflation increases.
• This relationship is then used to develop the monetary
policy curve.
• The monetary policy curve is then used in conjunction with
the IS schedule to derive an aggregate demand curve,
which shall be used in the discussions that follow.

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Learning Objectives
• Recognize the impact of changes in the nominal federal
funds rate on short-term real interest rates.
• Define and illustrate the monetary policy (MP) curve and
explain shifts in the MP curve.
• Explain why the aggregate demand (AD) curve slopes
downward and explain shifts in the AD curve.

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The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy
• The Fed of the United States conducts monetary policy by
setting the federal funds rate—the interest rate at which
banks lend to each other.
• When the Federal Reserve lowers the federal funds rate,
real interest rates fall.
• When the Federal Reserve raises the federal funds rate,
real interest rates rise.

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The Monetary Policy Curve
• The monetary policy (MP) curve shows how monetary
policy, measured by the real interest rate, reacts to the
inflation rate, :

r  r  
where
r  autonomous component of r
  responsiveness of r to inflation

• The MP curve is upward sloping. Real interest rates rise


when the inflation rate rises.

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Figure 1 The Monetary Policy Curve

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The Taylor Principle: Why the Monetary
Policy Curve Has an Upward Slope
• The key reason for an upward sloping MP curve is that
central banks seek to keep inflation stable.
• Taylor principle: To stabilize inflation, central banks 
must raise nominal interest rates by more than any rise in
expected inflation, so that r rises when rises.
• Schematically, if a central bank allows r to fall when 
rises, then (Yad = AD):

  r  Y ad    r  Y ad   

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Shifts in the MP Curve
• Two types of monetary policy actions that affect interest
rates:
– Automatic (Taylor principle) changes as reflected by
movements along the MP curve (2004–2006)
– Autonomous changes that shift the MP curve
 Autonomous tightening of monetary policy that shifts
the MP curve upward
 Autonomous easing of monetary policy that shifts
the MP curve downward (in order to stimulate the
economy as what the Fed was doing at the onset of
the global financial crisis)

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Figure 2 Shifts in the Monetary Policy
Curve

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Figure 3 The Federal Funds Rate and
Inflation Rate, 2003–2017

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The Aggregate Demand Curve
• The aggregate demand curve represents the relationship
between the inflation rate and aggregate demand when the
goods market is in equilibrium.
• The aggregate demand curve is central to aggregate
demand and supply analysis, which allows us to explain
short-run fluctuations in both aggregate output and
inflation.

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Deriving the Aggregate Demand Curve
Graphically
• The AD curve is derived from:
– The MP curve
– The IS curve
• The AD curve has a downward slope: As inflation rises, the
real interest rate rises, so that spending and equilibrium
aggregate output fall.

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Figure 4 Deriving the AD Curve

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Factors That Shift the Aggregate Demand
Curve
• Shifts in the IS curve
– Autonomous consumption expenditure
– Autonomous investment spending
– Government purchases
– Taxes
– Autonomous net exports
• Any factor that shifts the IS curve shifts the aggregate
demand curve in the same direction.

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Deriving the AD Curve Algebraically
• Combining the IS and MP curves:
IS :
MP:
• Algebraic manipulation gives the AD curve:

• What factors affect the slope of the aggregate demand


curve?

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Figure 5 Shift in the AD Curve from Shifts
in the IS Curve

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Factors That Shift the Aggregate Demand
Curve
• Shifts in the MP curve
– An autonomous tightening of monetary policy, that is a
rise in real interest rate at any given inflation rate, shifts
the aggregate demand curve to the left
– Similarly, an autonomous easing of monetary policy
shifts the aggregate demand curve to the right

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Figure 6 Shift in the AD Curve from
Autonomous Monetary Policy Tightening

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