Exam 17: The Central Bank Balance Sheet and the Money Supply Process

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Bank A has checkable deposits of $100 million, vault cash equaling $1 million and deposits at the Fed equaling $14 million.If the required reserve rate is ten percent what is the maximum amount Bank A could lend?

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When a business purchases a $50,000 computer system by writing a check, the business's balance sheet will:

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Assume that the required reserve rate is ten percent, banks want to hold excess reserves in an amount that equals three percent of deposits, and the public withdraws ten percent of every deposit in cash.An open market purchase of $1 million by the Fed will see banking system deposits increase by:

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When an individual withdraws funds from a checking account the:

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Over the two-year period during which the financial crisis occurred, the amount of assets in the Federal Reserve balance sheet increased by:

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A central bank's sale of securities from its portfolio will:

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Reserves are:

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The simple deposit expansion multiplier is really too simple for understanding the link between changes in a central bank's balance sheet and the quantity of money in the economy because it:

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During the 2007-2009 financial crisis which of the following became the largest component of assets on the Fed's balance sheet:

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If required reserves are expressed by RR; the required reserve rate by rD and deposits by D, the simple deposit expansion multiplier is expressed as:

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Follow a $1 billion purchase of U.S.Treasury bonds by the Fed from commercial banks.Discuss the changes that occur to the balance sheet of the banking system and the balance sheet of the Fed.

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What was the main reason the Fed stopped announcing growth targets for money aggregates in the early 2000s?

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The monetary base is the sum of:

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What would be the amount of deposits D, given that the monetary base MB = $750 billion, the required reserve rate (rD) = 0.1, the excess reserve rate (ER/D) = 0.005, and non-bank currency to deposits (C/D) equaled 1.2?

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Monetary policy operations for central banks are run through changes in the liability category of:

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Each of the following items would appear as assets on the central bank's balance sheet, except:

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The use of deposit sweeping allows banks to:

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A liability of the central bank in functioning as the bankers' bank is:

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If the central banks of most countries do not set the exchange rates, why do they hold foreign exchange as one of their assets?

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A central bank's balance sheet would categorize each of the following as liabilities, except:

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