If a bank has $300,000 of checkable deposits, a required reserve ratio of 20 percent, and it holds $120,000 in reserves, then the maximum deposit outflow it can sustain without altering its balance sheet is

Consider the risk structure of interest rates.  If corporate bonds become more risky, we would expect  

Why does holding large amounts of bank capital helps prevent bank failures?

Income and wealth rise during business cycle expansions. Therefore, the demand for bonds ________ and the demand curve shifts to the ________, everything else held constant.

Why might a bank hold excess and secondary reserves?

Consider the risk structure of interest rates.  A decrease in marginal tax rates will ________ the demand for municipal bonds, and ________ the demand for U.S. government bonds, everything else held constant.

When banks borrow from other banks, we call such loans ______. These loans are a ________ of funds.

Consider the following scenario:  Someone purchases a coupon bond today for $2,000. The bond has a face value of $2,000, a maturity of three years, and coupon rate of 10 percent. That person holds the bond until maturity. What is the rate of return? 

Financial intermediaries are very important to financial markets because they

Sometimes advanced economies experience financial crises as a result of