Macro M7 - Financial markets Flashcards

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What is the main role of commercial banks?

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To be the intermediary between borrowers and savers

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How do commercial banks make their profits?

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By taking small, short-term relatively liquid deposits from savers and transforming these into larger, longer maturity loans

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What services are provided by investment banks?

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Underwriting, M&A advice, Trading on capital markets, Private equity investments

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What do private banks do?

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Provide wealth management services to high net worth individuals

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What are building societies?

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Owned by their members, they offer mortgages and savings products. Many also offer a broad range of retail banking products.

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What are credit unions?

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Small and local non-profit lending institutions. Owned by their members and are for people who cannot access banks or building societies

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What is bank capital?

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The value of the bank’s assets minus its liabilities

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What are bank reserves?

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Money and liquid assets held by banks in order to meet withdrawals from customers

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Examples of a bank’s assets

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Cash, balances at BofE, Loans (e.g. advances), securities (e.g. bonds), fixed assets (e.g. land)

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Examples of a bank’s liabilities

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Customer deposits, money owed to bond holders, money owed to other banks

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What is a bank’s balance sheet?

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A financial statement which reports a banks assets and liabilities

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What are stable deposits?

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Deposits that cannot be withdrawn quickly. Banks usually offer higher interest rates for them. They help banks control their ‘liquidity risk’

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What is liquidity risk?

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The risk that savers will want to withdraw their deposits and the bank is unable to pay

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What is credit risk?

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The risk of a bank lending to borrowers who turn out to be unable to repay their loans (default on their loans)

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What are the three functions of money?

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Medium of exchange, store of value, unit of value

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What is fiat money?

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Assets used to make transactions with no intrinsic value – the current way of exchanging goods and services

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What is near money?

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Assets which can be converted into cash without delays (Liquid)

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What is non-money?

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Assets which do not function as a medium of exchange due to encashment delays (Illiquid)

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What is narrow money?

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The narrowest measure of money. Only includes the most liquid assets
(Cash + Reserves)

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What is broad money?

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The largest measure of money within the economy. It includes narrow money as well as the least liquid assets

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What is a bond?

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A financial instrument which can be issued and sold to raise finance. Beholders receive periodic payments linked to the overall value of the bond until it matures.

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What is a bond yield?

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The annual coupon payment expressed as a percentage of the market price of the bond

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What is a coupon payment?

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A periodic payment that the bondholder receives during the time between when the bond is issued and when it matures

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What are guilts?

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Bonds issued by the government

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How to calculate the yield of a bond?
(Coupon / Market price) X 100
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What does an increase in the base rate do to the exchange rate?
Increases the value of the pound
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What did economist Minsky believe?
That stability was destabilising. Banks get complacent and start taking bigger risks in the pursuit of profit
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If a bank makes a new loan to a customer, what will happen to the bank's liabilities, assets and money supply?
They will all increase
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What is quantitative easing?
When the Bank of England buys bonds on the secondary market. This increases demand and therefore increases price.
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What is austerity and what is needed when it is implemented?
Contractionary fiscal policy. Therefore lots of expansionary monetary policy is needed.
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On a commercial bank's balance sheet, total assets should be equal to what?
Total liabilities + capital
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What are four traditional investment bank activities?
Underwriting share issues Proprietary trading Fund managing M&A advice
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What is moral hazard? (Asymmetric information)
When the behaviour of individuals change after a contract is agreed and enforced (E.g. People are more likely to be carefree after they have insurance on something)
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What is adverse selection? (Asymmetric information)
Private information means that only those who benefit will enter into a contract (E.g. only those who need insurance will get it)
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What are the forms of market failure within the financial sector?
- Speculation - Asset price bubbles - Market rigging - Externalities - Moral hazard - Asymmetric information
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What are speculative bubbles?
When asset prices become inflated and overvalued, when they burst it causes large economic problems. Banks can cause speculative bubbles due to their herding behaviour
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What is market rigging?
When individuals and companies work together for a mutual benefit to stop a market operating as it should do