Question 3:

When the central bank buys bonds from the private sector and thereby increases the nominal money supply

1. wealth increases when the price level is fixed and there is less than full employment if Ricardian Equivalence holds.

2. wealth is unaffected when there is price flexibility and full employment and Ricardian Equivalence holds.

3. wealth is unaffected under fixed prices and less-than-full-employment conditions under the implicit traditional Keynesian assumption with respect to Ricardian Equivalence.

4. all of the above are true.

Choose the correct option.