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The Fed moved from a limited reserves regime, where reserves in the banking system are scarce, to an ample reserves regime, where reserves are ample or abundant. With the shift came an adjustment to the monetary policy tools. Given that this new regime is here to stay, and teaching materials are not widespread, this paper provides teaching guidance. First, we offer a simple means for covering the key concepts. Second, we answer some often-asked questions about the new material. Third, we present a classroom activity to demonstrate how the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) conducts monetary policy, how the Fed implements policy, and how those changes transmit through the economy to promote the dual mandate goals of maximum employment and price stability.  \nJane Ihrig† Scott Wolla‡  \n†Federal Reserve Board ‡Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis  \n 2023 Journal of Economics Teaching  \nIhrig, Wolla / Journal of Economics Teaching (2023)  \n1. Introduction  \nMonetary policy has been operating in the same basic fashion for decades – the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) sets a target or target range for the federal funds rate (FFR), and then the Federal Reserve uses its tools to steer the market-determined FFR to the target. But a significant change took place in 2008 that affected how policy is implemented. The Fed moved from a limited reserves regime, where reserves in the banking system are scarce, to an ample reserves regime, where reserves are ample or abundant. With the shift in the level of reserves came an adjustment to the monetary policy tools.  \nUnfortunately, when the Fed changed its implementation regime and the associated tools, the curriculum and classroom instruction did not change. The curriculum most likely did not change because of a lack of direct and specific communication by the Federal Reserve with the economic education community.1 That changed in 2020 when Ihrig and Wolla started writing articles for economic education publications and developed teaching resources published on the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis website. These actions spurred changes, with individual instructors and curriculum authors starting to move toward new content and a larger splash when the College Board announced an update to theAP macro course description and exam, which took effect in the fall of 2022 (Ma & Woods, 2022) . However, while the College Board added ample reserves to their Course and Exam Description, they retained the limited reserves regime content. So, in this case, AP Macroeconomics teachers will need to teach both frameworks.2  \nToday, many educators who teach introductory macroeconomics atthe high school and college level are transitioning – learning how the ample reserves regime works, how the new tools operate, and how to teach the new content in the classroom. This article is designed to provide a simple means for covering the ample reserves regime, answer key questions, and provide an easy-to-use classroom activity to teach the new content.  \nThis paper proposes a Literacy-Targeted approach to teaching the concepts. This approach argues that it is far more valuable for students to learn and be able to apply core concepts well than to be exposed to a wide range of concepts and techniques they will not master and, therefore will soon forget (Gilleskie & Salemi, 2012; Benjamin, Cohen & Hamilton, 2020). In that vein, we strip down the full discussion of the ample regime presented in Ihrig and Wolla (2020a) into the key concepts that need to be taught.  \n2. Key Concepts of an Ample Reserves Regime  \nAs the Fed has done for decades, the FOMC sets a target or a target range for the FFR. Since the Great Financial Crisis, the target range has been set 25 basis points wide, with an upper and lower limit. Then to ensure that the market-determined FFR trades in this target range, the Fed ensures there are ample reserves","cbCaiui1dtDxzJhO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiui1dtDxzJhO","pdf",214345,14,"English","# Introduction\n## Key Concepts of an Ample Reserves Regime","[{\"question\":\"What major change did the Federal Reserve make in 2008 regarding reserves?\",\"answer\":\"The Fed shifted from a limited-reserves regime, where banking-system reserves were scarce, to an ample-reserves regime, where reserves are abundant.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper focus on teaching materials rather than only describing the new regime?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that the implementation regime and tools changed, but classroom instruction and curriculum did not, so educators need structured guidance to teach the ample-reserves framework.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the central policy tool in an ample reserves regime?\",\"answer\":\"Interest on reserve balances (and the associated IORB rate) is presented as the Fed’s primary tool for steering the market-determined federal funds rate into the target range.\"}]","Teaching Monetary Policy with Ample Reserves | PDF",1789900015,35]