ECON 3P03 Lecture Notes - Excess Reserves, Reserve Requirement, Money Supply

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Other 11: basic operation of a bank. Banks are involved in what is known as asset transformation. They exchange their short-term liabilities (i. e. savings deposits) for long-term assets (i. e. (i. e. savings deposits) for long-term assets (i. e. mortgage loans). Their primary objective is to generate profits for their shareholders but as a by-product of their operations they create bank deposits (i. e. they affect the money supply). They following simplified balance-sheet entries trace the effects of extending a bank loan to a business. The banks also create deposits when they acquire non-income-producing assets such as cash. Value cash (reserves) +100: principles of bank management. A bank has to maintain excess reserves in order to be able to deal with unexpected deposit outflows. Otherwise, it has to cover reserve shortfalls in a number of ways all of which involve costs for the bank. To highlight different ways of covering reserve shortfall and the attendant costs we consider some examples.

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