The foreign currency depreciates against the domestic currency or the exchange rate decreases, corresponding to the fall in foreign bond prices in terms of the domestic currency value. The interest rate falls as domestic bond prices rise which is caused the shortage in the supply of domestic bonds. Figure 10.9 demonstrates the effect of these operations. Point E
~
is where the markets are in temporary general equilibrium with the foreign exchange operation; and the money market is in temporary equilibrium on the dashed line M
~ M
~
. The arrows show the transition to the new general equilibrium when all the three markets clear at E’, with a fallen exchange rate of S ' and a fallen interest rate of r