Question

Third National Bank has reserves of $20,000 and checkable deposits of $100,000. The reserve ratio is 20 percent. Households deposit $5,000 in currency into the bank, and the bank adds that currency to its reserves. What amount of excess reserves does the bank now have

Answer 1

$4000

Step-by-step explanation:

Fractional banking is a banking system where a portion of customer's deposits is kept as reserves while remaining portion is lent out. The amount kept as reserves is determined by the required reserve ratio set by the Central bank.

Reserve ratio is the percentage of deposits that is required of commercial banks to keep as reserves

Total deposits = $100,000 + $5,000 = $105,000

Required reserves = 0.2 x 105000 = 21,000

total reserves = $20,000 + 5000 = 25,000

excess reserves = 25,000 - 21,000 = 4000