With fixed exchange rates and no private currency flows, when the central bank buys domestic currency the domestic money supply is ?
Correct answer: C. reduced
- A. increased
- B. unaffected
- C. reduced
- D. None of these
Explanation
When the central bank buys domestic currency, it pays for that purchase with foreign reserves and removes domestic currency from circulation. The monetary base and hence the domestic money supply are reduced.
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