Monetary Economics Overview Includes Monetary Policy Instruments, Functions and Impacts

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Drogaba Immanuel
Essiena Yayamo

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This study discusses monetary policy, the function and impact of monetary policy as well as the factors that influence the money supply. Monetary policy is a policy or regulation issued by the Central Bank which is used to manage a number of money supplies in a country to be able to create a specific purpose. The functions and impacts of monetary policy include maintaining an investment climate that occurs within the country, increasing the stability of economic growth in a country, overcoming high levels of unemployment and opening up a number of large employment opportunities, increasing the number of the balance of payments, maintaining the stability of value. the existing currency exchange is able to maintain a number of stability of the price of goods on the market. Factors that affect the amount of money circulating in society include the size of state spending, the fast and slow rate of money circulation, the motive for having cash, the transaction motive, the precautionary motive, and the speculative motive.

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