Order the rounds of credit creation
Exercise and reference answers
- Steps
- A customer deposits 100 with the bank
- The bank keeps 20 as its required reserve
- The bank lends the remaining 80
- That 80 comes back as a fresh deposit
- The bank keeps a reserve on the larger deposit
- Lending repeats until deposits reach 500
- Instructions
- Tap the steps in the order a bank creates credit from one deposit.
Explanation
_Source: syllabus Macroeconomics XII Ch3 Money and Banking, 3.3 MONEY CREATION BY BANKING SYSTEM_