a. What is the reserve requirement? b. Suppose the reserve requirement is charlged to 10 percent. Reconstruct the balance sheet of the total banking system after all banks have fully utilized their lending capacity. Assets (in Billions) Llabilities (in Bilions) Transactions account deposits Total reserves Securities Loans Total assets Total liabilities
a. What is the reserve requirement? b. Suppose the reserve requirement is charlged to 10 percent. Reconstruct the balance sheet of the total banking system after all banks have fully utilized their lending capacity. Assets (in Billions) Llabilities (in Bilions) Transactions account deposits Total reserves Securities Loans Total assets Total liabilities
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![Suppose a banking system with the following balance sheet has no excess reserves. Assume that banks will make loans in the
full amount of any excess reserves that they acquire and will immediately be able to eliminate loans from their portfolio to
cover inadequate reserves.
Assets (in Billions)
Liabilities (in Billions)
Transactions
$100
account deposits
Total reserves
S800
$200
$500
Se00 Total liabilities
Securities
Loans
Total assets
$800
Instructions: In part a, enter your response as a percentage rounded to one decimal place. For all other parts, enter your
responses as a whole number.
a. What is the reserve requirement?
b. Suppose the reserve requirement is chalged to 10 percent. Reconstruct the balance sheet of the total banking system after
all banks have fully utilized their lending capacity.
Assets (in Billions)
Llabilities (in Billons)
Transactions
account deposits
Total reserves
Securities
Loans
Total assets
Total liabilities](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F02728e8c-0e0f-4e37-a55e-e2f67feb1ff9%2F1bd3e182-22a9-4052-84fc-58205c4a8342%2Fshrs509_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:Suppose a banking system with the following balance sheet has no excess reserves. Assume that banks will make loans in the
full amount of any excess reserves that they acquire and will immediately be able to eliminate loans from their portfolio to
cover inadequate reserves.
Assets (in Billions)
Liabilities (in Billions)
Transactions
$100
account deposits
Total reserves
S800
$200
$500
Se00 Total liabilities
Securities
Loans
Total assets
$800
Instructions: In part a, enter your response as a percentage rounded to one decimal place. For all other parts, enter your
responses as a whole number.
a. What is the reserve requirement?
b. Suppose the reserve requirement is chalged to 10 percent. Reconstruct the balance sheet of the total banking system after
all banks have fully utilized their lending capacity.
Assets (in Billions)
Llabilities (in Billons)
Transactions
account deposits
Total reserves
Securities
Loans
Total assets
Total liabilities
![c. By how much has the money supply changed as a result of the lower reserve requirement (part b)?
billon
d. Suppose the Fed now buys $10 billion of securities directly from the banks. What will the banks' books look like immediately
after this purchase but before the banks make any additional loans?
Assets (in Billions)
Liabilities (in Billions)
Transactions
account deposits
Total reserves
Securities
Loans
Total assets
Total liabilities
e. How much excess reserves do the banks have now?
billion
f. By how much can the money supply now increase due to this open market purchase?
billion](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F02728e8c-0e0f-4e37-a55e-e2f67feb1ff9%2F1bd3e182-22a9-4052-84fc-58205c4a8342%2F1nxozi1_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:c. By how much has the money supply changed as a result of the lower reserve requirement (part b)?
billon
d. Suppose the Fed now buys $10 billion of securities directly from the banks. What will the banks' books look like immediately
after this purchase but before the banks make any additional loans?
Assets (in Billions)
Liabilities (in Billions)
Transactions
account deposits
Total reserves
Securities
Loans
Total assets
Total liabilities
e. How much excess reserves do the banks have now?
billion
f. By how much can the money supply now increase due to this open market purchase?
billion
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