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Suppose that currency in circulation is $600 billion, the amount of checkable deposits is $900 billion, the required reserve ratio is 10% and excess reserves are $15 billion.

a. Calculate the money supply, the currency deposit ratio, the excess reserve ratio, and the money multiplier. Show your work.

b. Suppose the central bank conducts an unusually large open market purchase of bonds held by banks of $1,400 billion due to a sharp contraction in the economy.

Assuming the ratios you calculated in part (a) remain the same, predict the effect on the money supply. Show your work.

c. Suppose the central bank conducts the same open market purchase as in part (b), except that banks choose to hold all of these proceeds as excess reserves rather than loan them out, due to fear of a financial crisis. Assuming that currency and deposits remain the same, what happens to the amount of excess reserves, the excess reserve ratio, the money supply, and the money multiplier? Show your work

d. During the financial crisis in 2008, the Federal Reserve began injecting the banking system with massive amounts of liquidity, and at the same time, very little lending occurred. As a result, the M1 money multiplier was below 1 for most of the time from October 2008 through 2011. How does this scenario relate to the answer to part (c)?