Suppose the simplified consolidated balance sheet shown below is for the entire commercial banking system and that all figures are in billions of dollars. The reserve ratio is 25 percent. Assets Reserves. Securities Loans $ 1 52 48 100 (a) (b) Liabilities and net worth Checkable deposits $ 1' 200 (a) (b)
Suppose the simplified consolidated balance sheet shown below is for the entire commercial banking system and that all figures are in billions of dollars. The reserve ratio is 25 percent. Assets Reserves. Securities Loans $ 1 52 48 100 (a) (b) Liabilities and net worth Checkable deposits $ 1' 200 (a) (b)
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![Suppose the simplified consolidated balance sheet shown below is for the entire commercial banking system and that all figures are in
billions of dollars. The reserve ratio is 25 percent.
Assets
Reserves
Securities
Loans
$
1
52
48
100
(a)
$
(b)
Instructions: Enter your answers as a whole number.
billion
Liabilities and net worth
Checkable deposits
a. What is the amount of excess reserves in this commercial banking system?
$
billion
What is the maximum amount the banking system might lend?
$
billion
$
1'
200
(a)
Show in columns 1(a) and 1'(a) how the consolidated balance sheet would look after this amount has been lent. Enter these new values
in the gray shaded cells of the given table.
What is the size of the monetary multiplier?
(b)
b. Using the original figures, answer the questions in part a assuming the reserve ratio is 20 percent. What is the amount of excess
reserves in this commercial banking system?](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F1625c8fc-6a75-4d50-b2c0-2848118f7297%2Fbf38a617-cdee-46f0-bc23-c5529f1d6409%2Fmmn5rq_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:Suppose the simplified consolidated balance sheet shown below is for the entire commercial banking system and that all figures are in
billions of dollars. The reserve ratio is 25 percent.
Assets
Reserves
Securities
Loans
$
1
52
48
100
(a)
$
(b)
Instructions: Enter your answers as a whole number.
billion
Liabilities and net worth
Checkable deposits
a. What is the amount of excess reserves in this commercial banking system?
$
billion
What is the maximum amount the banking system might lend?
$
billion
$
1'
200
(a)
Show in columns 1(a) and 1'(a) how the consolidated balance sheet would look after this amount has been lent. Enter these new values
in the gray shaded cells of the given table.
What is the size of the monetary multiplier?
(b)
b. Using the original figures, answer the questions in part a assuming the reserve ratio is 20 percent. What is the amount of excess
reserves in this commercial banking system?
![What is the maximum amount the banking system might lend?
$
billion
Show in columns 1(b) and 1'(b) how the consolidated balance sheet would look after this amount has been
lent. Enter these new values in the gray shaded cells of the given table.
What is the monetary multiplier?
What is the resulting difference in the amount that the commercial banking system can lend when the
required reserve ratio is 20 percent rather than 25 percent?
It can lend $
billion (Click to select) ✓](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F1625c8fc-6a75-4d50-b2c0-2848118f7297%2Fbf38a617-cdee-46f0-bc23-c5529f1d6409%2F52f8e16_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:What is the maximum amount the banking system might lend?
$
billion
Show in columns 1(b) and 1'(b) how the consolidated balance sheet would look after this amount has been
lent. Enter these new values in the gray shaded cells of the given table.
What is the monetary multiplier?
What is the resulting difference in the amount that the commercial banking system can lend when the
required reserve ratio is 20 percent rather than 25 percent?
It can lend $
billion (Click to select) ✓
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