Question

John withdraws $100 from his checking account and deposits it in his saving account. What will be the effect of this transaction on different measures of money, i.e. C, M1, and M2

Answer 1

Answer:

C is Currency in circulation

M1 is Coins, Currency, money is checking account, travelers checks etc. This basically include all units of money which are highly liquid and can be used at an instant.

M2 includes M1 and certain units of money which are less liquid e.g. savings, time deposits, term deposits etc.

Here, John is withdrawing $100 from his checking account and depositing in savings account hence this will decrease the M1 since M1 does not include savings account. There will not be any change in M2 since both checking and savings account are a part of that.

Since this transaction does not include currency in circulation, there will be no impact on C.

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