Suppose a bank has $2 million in excess reserves and total reserves of $10 million. A required reserve ratio of 10% is applicable to all deposits at the bank. What is the total amount of deposits at the bank?
a. $800 million
b. $80 million
c. $10 million
d. $20 million
e. $100 million
.B
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A) aesthetic standards vary so widely. B) it is extremely difficult to induce people to pay on a voluntary basis for the pleasure they receive from urban beautification projects. C) people may enjoy beauty, but they are not willing to pay for it. D) private individuals and firms generate more external costs than benefits.
A considerable advantage that richer countries have over poorer ones is exemplified by the fact that
A) richer countries do not have to denominate their foreign debts in their own currencies. B) richer countries have the ability to denominate their foreign debts in foreign currencies. C) when demand falls for a poorer country's goods, this leads to a significant wealth transfer from foreigners to the poorer country, a kind of international insurance payment. D) richer countries have the ability to denominate their foreign debts in their own currencies. E) richer countries can extract trade advantages by using military power.
In a study of whether prices are sticky or not, Alan Blinder supervised interviews of corporate executives on the frequency with which their firms change prices and found that
a. 55 percent of firms changed prices only once a year or less. b. over 20 percent of the firms changed prices more than 12 times per year. c. 10 percent of companies changed prices 4 to 12 times per year. d. there is not a considerable departure from auction-market behavior.
_______ ensure that resources are allocated to where they are most highly valued
a. Communist governments b. Consumers c. Suppliers d. Non-governmental organizations e. Markets