Question

On January 10, 2017, a man in Lebanon, Virginia, frustrated with the DMV bureaucracy, paid his DMV bill with 300,000 pennies that he carted into the DMV office in five wheelbarrows. The DMV had to count all these pennies and deposit them into the DMV bank account. After the DMV deposit and assuming a reserve requirement of 7 percent, calculate the initial change in

Answer 1

Answer:

the requirements are missing, so I looked for them:

• a. Money supply.
• b. Deposits.
• c. Total reserves.
• d. Excess reserves.

a. $0

the coins are part of M1 money supply already, so it will not change it.

b. $3,000.

the DMV should deposit the pennies in their account account, therefore, total bank deposits will increase by 300,000¢ /100 = $3,000

c. $3,000

since bank deposits increase by $3,000, total reserves also increase by $3,000

d. $2,790

excess reserves = total reserves - required reserve ratio = $3,000 - ($3,000 x 7%) = $2,790