Question

Suppose the Bank of Tazi loaned the banks of Tazi 10 million tazes. Suppose also that both the reserve requirement and the percentage of deposits held as excess reserves stay the same. By how much would the money supply change?
a. 250 million tazes
b. 200 million tazes
c. 125 million tazes
d. None of the above is correct.

Answer 1

Answer:

See below.

Explanation:

To compute the change in money supply, we first calculate the credit multiplier,

Credit multiplier is calculated as,

Multiplier = 1 / reserve ratio

When the Bank of Tazi loans 10 million to bank while their reserve requirements stay the same, this additional 10 million will be loaned out and the total change in money supply would be

= 10 million * Multiplier

For example if the reserve ratio was 4% then the multiplier = 1 /0.04 = 25

Then the total change in money supply would be 10 * 25 = 250 million.

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