Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy

Unit 9 Assignment: Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy Student Name: In this Assignment, you will compute the required reserves and excess reserves using bank deposit data. You will also analyze the impacts of fiscal policy and monetary policy on the economy. Instructions: Answer all of the following questions. You are required to follow proper APA format. Read the Criteria section below for more information before you begin this Assignment. In this Assignment, you will be assessed on the following outcome: MT445-5: Examine how fiscal and monetary policies affect the U.S. economy. 1. Determine whether each of the following is counted in the M1 measure of the money supply: * The coins in your piggy bank. Yes. This is liquid money (cash) in a deposit save. * The funds in your checking account at First National Bank. Yes. This is part of the checkable (demand) deposit in a bank account CITATION Ggr18 \l 1033 (Mankiw, 2018). * The funds in your savings account at Second National Bank. No. savings form part of the M2 money supply component. The cash is not in liquid form. * The traveler’s check you have left over from your trip to Germany. Yes. Traveler’s check constitutes M1 CITATION Ggr18 \l 1033 (Mankiw, 2018). * The available balance on your Citico Gold MasterCard. No. This is a credit card and credit card are not considered as money by financial institutions but rather short-term loan which does not fir in either MI or M2. 2. Refer to the simplified balance sheet for a bank and answer the following questions. Assets Liabilities Reserves $10,000 Deposits $70,000 Loans $66,000 Stockholder's equity $6,000 * If the required reserve ratio is 5%, how much in excess reserves does this bank hold? 5%*$70,000 = $3,500 = $10,000-$3,500 = $6,500 excess reserves * What is the maximum amount this bank can expand on its loans? The remaining excess reserves that are equivalent to $6,500 * What will happen to the M1 money supply if it makes the loans under (b) above and those funds are deposited into another bank by the borrowers? No change in ...