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The Bank of Your Class has the following balance sheet.
Assets Liabilities
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Cash (reserves) $4,000 Deposits $100,000
Deposited at the Fed $5,000
Loans
$91,000
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Total $100,000 $100,000
The required reserve ratio on all deposits is 5%
a. What, if any, are the bank's excess reserves?
b. How much new amount of loan will this bank be able to create?
c. How much new amount of loan will the entire banking system (all bank) be able to create?
d. Answer part a, b, and c if the required reserve ratio is increased to 8%.
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If reserve requirement is 5%:
a.
Excess reserve is the excess of total over the required reserve.
Total reserve = Cash reserve + Deposit at Fed
= 4,000 + 5,000
= $9,000
Required reserve = Deposit × Required reserve rate
= $100,000 × 5%
= $5,000
Excess reserve = Total reserve – Required reserve
= 9,000 – 5,000
= $4,000 (Answer)
b.
The bank can able to create new loan by the amount of excess reserve.
Answer: $4,000
c.
New loan entirely = Excess reserve × (1/required reserve ratio)
= $4,000 × (1/0.05)
= $80,000 (Answer)
If reserve requirement is 8%:
a.
Excess reserve is the excess of total over the required reserve.
Total reserve = Cash reserve + Deposit at Fed
= 4,000 + 5,000
= $9,000
Required reserve = Deposit × Required reserve rate
= $100,000 × 8%
= $8,000
Excess reserve = Total reserve – Required reserve
= 9,000 – 8,000
= $1,000 (Answer)
b.
The bank can able to create new loan by the amount of excess reserve.
Answer: $1,000
c.
New loan entirely = Excess reserve × (1/required reserve ratio)
= $1,000 × (1/0.08)
= $12,500 (Answer)