central bank

Central banks pursue monetary and financial stability. This topic is part of Economics within Government & Society. This page currently draws on 6 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.

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A central bank manages a country's monetary system and often influences what?

Answer: Interest rates and money supply

Bonus fact: Central banks pursue monetary and financial stability.

What is the central bank of the United States?

Answer: Federal Reserve

Bonus fact: The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913.

What tool lets a central bank influence short-term interest rates by buying or selling securities?

Answer: Open-market operations

Bonus fact: Open-market transactions affect banking-system reserves.

The Federal Reserve is the central bank of which country?

Answer: United States

Bonus fact: It is commonly called the Fed.

Central-bank policies can influence money supply partly through the banking system's what?

Answer: Reserves and lending

Bonus fact: Monetary policy affects credit conditions and liquidity.

Which field was added later and is technically a memorial prize rather than one of Nobel's original prizes?

Answer: Economic sciences

Bonus fact: The economics prize was established by Sweden's central bank in 1968.

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