montery policy

1. Monetary policy is the
process by which the monetary
authority of a country – mostly
a central bank like the RBI –
controls the supply of money.
It does this by targeting the
interest rates at which money
is borrowed and lent.

2. Monetary policy is the process by which the government, central bank
(RBI in India), or monetary authority of a country controls
(i)the supply of money
(ii) availability of money
(iii) cost of money or rate of interest ,
 in order to attain a set of objectives oriented towards the growth and
stability of the economy. Monetary theory provides insight into how to
craft optimal monetary policy.
 Monetary policy is referred to as either being an expansionary policy, or
a contractionary policy, where an expansionary policy increases the
total supply of money in the economy, and a contractionary policy
decreases the total money supply. Expansionary policy is traditionally
used to combat unemployment in a recession by lowering interest
rates, while contractionary policy involves raising interest rates in order
to combat inflation. Monetary policy is contrasted with fiscal
policy, which refers to government borrowing, spending and taxation


3. Goal of Monetary
Policy
Promote
maximum
sustainable
levels of
economic
output
stable price

4. TYPES OF
CONTROL
Qualitative
Control
Quantitative
Control

5.  Bank
Rate
 Open market operation
 CRR
 SLR
 Repo rate
 Reserve Repo Rate

6.  Marginal
Rate
 Rationing of credit.

7. Lending Rate
Economy
Money
supply
Inflation
Interest rate
Gross domestic
product (GDP)

8. MP is a part of general economic policy of the govt.
 Thus MP contributes to the achievement of the goals
of economic policy.
 Objective of MP may be:
a. Full employment
b. Stable exchange rate
c.
Healthy Bop Economic growth Reasonable
d.
Price Stability
e. Greater equality in distribution of income & wealth
Financial stability


9.  Low
Inflation
 Political Independence

10.  Conflicting
 Time
Lag
Goals