bank reserves

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• Excess reserves

  The required reserve ratio is 5% on all deposits Excess reserves are the amount of bank reserves over and above those that the Federal Reserve System requires a bank to keep. Excess reserves are what banks use to make loans.

• RESERVE REQUIREMENTS

  1.0 Bank A is short of the reserves required by only 0.2 million.

• Bank Balance Sheets and Finance

  loans .If required reserves are 8%, what does the bank balance sheet looks like. 2 New bank decides to invest $45 million in 30 day T-Bills .

• Decrease in reserve requirements

  The solution explains what effects are decreases in reserve requirements likely to have on (a) bank reserves, (b) Federal Funds rates, (c) bank lending, (d) Treasury bill rates, and (e) the bank prime rate.

• Bank's T-Account: Required Reserves and New Loans

  Suppose that the required reserves were 20 percent. If this were the case, would the bank be in a position to extend any additional loans? Does the bank currently have any excess reserves? >What is the maximum loan the bank can extend?

• UNO National Bank: Calculate Excess Reserves

  437709 UNO National Bank: Calculate Excess Reserves 1) UNO National Bank has the following assets and liabilities( all amount in millions) Assets Liabilities Reserves $20

• Bank's Required Reserves

  What amount of checkable deposits can be supported by $10 million in required reserves? In what form does a bank hold its required reserves?

• The money multiplier

  So the bank is required to hold 10% of $1.2 million, or $120000 in reserves. The bank has $150000 in reserves, and hence total amount of excess reserves is $150000 - $120000 = $30000.

• Bank Balance Sheet

  The bank will need to adjust the asset side by reducing its reserves and loans. Since the required reserve ratio for the loan is 20%, the new reserves should be equal to 20% of the new amount of loan.