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Chapter 13, Problem 6PA
Subpart (a):
To determine
The impact of the interest rate on investment.
Subpart (b):
To determine
The impact of the interest rate on investment.
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1. A group of college friends decide to start their own bank, LSU Community Bank, in rural
Pennsylvania. In order to get started they put in a total of $10 million of their own money and
borrow $40 million from a venture debt lender. (This is known as venture debt lending.)
They accept $ 160 million in deposits from households and businesses in the community, and, in
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a. Show LSU Community Bank's balance sheet.
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What is LSU Community Bank's reserve-deposit ratio?
What is LSU Community Bank's asset to equity ratio?
C.
Recently, the economies of China and India have begun to grow very rapidly.
This increases their citizens’ income and wealth. In turn, these citizens
increase their savings in their country and also in the United States.
a. When foreign savings enter the U.s. loanable funds market, which
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