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Changes in Monetary Policy in Ecoville

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Assume that the Bank of Ecoville has the following balance sheet and the Fed has a 10% reserve requirement in place:

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Now assume that the Fed lowers the reserve requirement to 8%.
1. What is the maximum amount of new loans that this bank can make?
2. Assume that the bank makes these loans. What will the new balance sheet look like?
3. By how much has the money supply increased or decreased?
4. If the money multiplier is 5, how much money will ultimately be created by this event?
5. If the Fed wanted to implement a contractionary monetary policy using reserve requirement, how would that work?

Address the questions above, showing your calculations. Develop your analysis in Microsoft Excel format. Enter non-numerical responses in the same worksheet using textboxes.

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This solution shows how to calculate the changes in the money supply that result from a change in monetary policy by the Federal Reserve. All calculations are explained and the results are presented in an Excel spreadsheet.

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