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Tutorial 4 - Money Supply and Credit Rationing 1) How is the money supply determined according to the money multiplier approach? What are the problems associated with this view of money creation by the banking system? In a fractional reserve banking system the money supply consists mostly of deposits at banks, which the Central Bank cannot control directly. The money supply process is therefore a more complicated system then simply the number of notes and coins inserted in the system in the first place. In a system with just direct monetary exchanges the money supply will equal the amount of money inserted, but in an increasingly cashless society in which a lot of monetary transactions are made via electronic transfers through banks and in which legal arrangements require banks to hold cash reserves equal to certain percentages of their outstanding deposits, the money available to the public is higher. In this...

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