Fractional Reserve Banking

1. Assume Bank A receives $181 in loans from the Fed and the reserve requirement is 7.00%. In the following table write out the money multiplication process. Only write out the money multiplication process until Bank E but calculate the Total as if you continued the multiplication process until reserves hit zero and there is nothing left tolend.

Table 1

1. If a bank is falling short of meeting its capital requirements by $1 million, what three things can it do to rectify thesituation?

2. X-Bank reported an ROE of 13.00% and an ROA of 1.00%. How well capitalized is thisbank?

3. Below is the balance sheet for Tribank. The required reserve ratio is 11.00%. Deposits fall by $5. What does the new balance sheet look like? How much money does the bank need to meet required reserves ifany?

4. To meet any shortfall in the previous question, TriBank will borrow the cash in the fed funds market. What does the balance sheet look like after thistransaction?

Chapter 18

1. Consider a failing bank and assume the FDIC insures up to $250,000. A deposit of $642,803 is worth how much if the FDIC uses the payoff method? The purchase and assumption method?

2. a. Based on the balance sheet below, how well capitalized is thebank?

b. How well capitalized is the bank based on the risk-weighted capital ratio?

Table 3

Shadow Banking

1. Discuss ways that private equity funds can createvalue?

Use Table 2 below for number 8. Assume the management fee is 2.00%, committed capital is $100, and the carried interest is 11%.
2. Fill in the rest of thetable.

Table 4

3. What are the ways the fund of funds create value. In addition, what kind of performance does the fund of funds usuallyobtain?

Answer the next question(s) on the basis of the following table for a commercial bank or thrift:
Table 5

2. A. 8.38%
B. 7.34%
C. 12.45%
D. 57.34%

3. Refer to row 2 in the above table. The number appropriate for space X is:

4. A. $161,590

B. $239,660
C. $200,000
D. $160,340