In: Economics
In an economy, only the central bannk has the sole power to mint
money.
The commercial banks create money by deposits held by the
customers, reserves held by the central bank. The excess demamd
deposits are lend out in the form of loans with some interest. This
in turn will rise the supply of money in the economy.
For example, if there exists only a single bank in the economy, say The State Bank, then in order to keep the money supply going, it will lend out the excess reserves it has. A bank is required to keep a minimum amount aside as reserves so that it can give it back whenever a person demands its deposits back. Assuming that not everyone will withdraw in the same date, the banks will lend out the extra demand deposits as loans with some interest.
Now, suppose there are multi banks in the economy. Similar to
the single bank system, all the banks in the multi banking system
will also lend out its excess demand deposit and the money supply
will increase. However, this increase in money supply will decrease
the aggregate demand because an increase in money supply would also
increase the interest rates and therefore discourage lending and
investments and also, decrease private consumptions of goods and
services as people will save more.
So, in order to curb this, in a multi banking system, the amount of
money that can be created in the country can be determined by the
money multiplier. Money multiplier can be defined as the number
of times the banks generate money in the economy with the reserves
it holds with the central bank. The money multiplier formula
can be written as-
Now, to calculate the quantity of money created by all banks
would be the money multiplier times the change in excess
reserves.
Total quantity of oney created will be -