问题


There is a single choice question about high school macroeconomics. Answer the question by replying A, B, C or D.
Question: The reserve ratio is .10 and Mommy Morebucks withdraws $1 million from her checking account and keeps it as cash in her refrigerator. How does this withdrawal potentially impact money in circulation?
A. Decreases it by $9 million
B. Decreases it by $1 million
C. Decreases it by $100000
D. Increases it by $1 million
Answer:

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金声玉亮2.0

A. Decreases it by $9 million.

Explanation: When Mommy Morebucks withdraws $1 million from her checking account and keeps it as cash in her refrigerator, the bank's reserves decrease by $1 million. Since the reserve ratio is 0.10, the bank is required to hold 10% of its deposits as reserves. With a decrease in reserves, the bank will have to reduce its lending and deposits by a multiple of the reserve ratio, which is 10 in this case (1/0.10). Therefore, the bank will have to reduce its deposits by $10 million ($1 million x 10), which will lead to a decrease in the money supply by $9 million ($10 million - $1 million).

Note: The $1 million withdrawn by Mommy Morebucks is already part of the money supply, so it doesn't decrease the money supply. The decrease in the money supply comes from the bank's reduced lending and deposits.
A
deepseekr1

The reserve ratio of 0.10 implies a money multiplier of 10 (1/0.10). When Mommy Morebucks withdraws $1 million from her checking account as cash, the bank loses $1 million in reserves. This reduction in reserves forces the bank to contract its loans by the multiplier effect. Specifically, the maximum potential decrease in deposits is $1 million × 10 = $10 million. However, $1 million of this amount is converted to cash (still part of the money supply). The net impact is a $10 million decrease in deposits minus a $1 million increase in cash, resulting in a **total decrease of $9 million** in the money supply.

Answer: **A**
A
gpto1 A A
GPT-4o A. Decreases it by $9 million A
llama3.1-70B-Instruct

A
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llama3.1-405B-Instruct

A. Decreases it by $9 million.

Explanation: When Mommy Morebucks withdraws $1 million from her checking account and keeps it as cash in her refrigerator, the bank's reserves decrease by $1 million. Since the reserve ratio is 0.10, the bank is required to hold 10% of its deposits as reserves. With a decrease in reserves, the bank will have to reduce its lending by $9 million (=$1 million / 0.10) to maintain the required reserve ratio. This reduction in lending will lead to a decrease in the money supply, as the bank will not be able to create new money through lending. Therefore, the correct answer is A, Decreases it by $9 million.
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DeepSeek-Coder-V2 A. Decreases it by $9 million A
Qwen2-72B-Instruct A. Decreases it by $9 million A
baichuan4 A. Decreases it by $9 million A
doubao B. Decreases it by $1 million. When a deposit is withdrawn and held as cash, it directly reduces the amount of money in the banking system and thus money in circulation by the amount withdrawn, which in this case is $1 million. A
minimax A. Decreases it by $9 million

When a bank's reserve ratio is 0.10 (or 10%), this means that the bank must keep 10% of deposits as reserves and can lend out the remaining 90%. If Mommy Morebucks withdraws $1 million from her checking account, the bank must keep $100,000 as reserves and can no longer lend out the other $900,000. This $900,000 that can no longer be lent out is effectively removed from the money supply multiplier effect, which means that the total money in circulation could decrease by up to $9 million, assuming the maximum number of loans and subsequent deposits that could have been created from that $1 million.
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kimi B. Decreases it by $1 million

Explanation: When Mommy Morebucks withdraws $1 million from her checking account and keeps it as cash, this money is no longer part of the money supply that is circulating in the economy. The reserve ratio of .10 means that for every $1 million deposited, banks can lend out $900,000 (since they must hold $100,000 in reserve). However, when the money is withdrawn and kept as cash, it is not available for lending, and thus it decreases the amount of money in circulation by the amount withdrawn, which is $1 million.
A
wenxinyiyan A. Decreases it by $9 million.

Explanation:
The reserve ratio is the portion of deposits that a bank must hold in reserve, rather than lend out or invest. In this case, the reserve ratio is 0.10, or 10%.

When Mommy Morebucks withdraws $1 million from her checking account, the bank loses $1 million in deposits. Because the reserve ratio is 10%, the bank had previously kept $100,000 of that $1 million in reserve and had $900,000 available to lend out or invest.

Now, with the $1 million withdrawal, the bank must adjust its reserves and available funds. The initial impact is that the bank loses $1 million in deposits, which directly reduces money in circulation by $1 million. However, the indirect effect is much larger.

Since the bank had $900,000 available to lend, that money was potentially part of the money multiplier process. The money multiplier is the process by which banks create additional money in the economy by lending out excess reserves, which are then re-deposited in other banks, and so on.

With the loss of $900,000 in lending ability, the potential for additional money creation through the multiplier effect is reduced. The multiplier effect is calculated as 1 / reserve ratio, which in this case is 1 / 0.10 = 10. Therefore, the potential reduction in money in circulation due to the multiplier effect is $900,000 * 10 = $9 million.

However, we must subtract the initial $1 million reduction in deposits to avoid double-counting. So, the net potential impact on money in circulation is a decrease of $9 million - $1 million = $8 million due to the multiplier effect, plus the initial $1 million decrease in deposits, for a total decrease of $9 million.

The key here is to understand that the withdrawal not only removes the initial deposit from circulation but also removes the potential for that deposit to be multiplied through the banking system.

Note: The answer assumes a closed banking system where all lending and depositing occurs within the same system and ignores any potential offsetting actions by other banks or the central bank. In a real-world scenario, the impact would be mitigated by various factors, such as interbank lending, central bank policies, and the overall health of the economy.
A
zhipu A. Decreases it by $9 million

This question involves understanding the money multiplier effect. The reserve ratio is 0.10 (or 10%), which means the money multiplier is calculated as 1 / reserve ratio = 1 / 0.10 = 10.

When Mommy Morebucks withdraws $1 million from her checking account and keeps it as cash, this reduces the reserves in the banking system. The initial withdrawal of $1 million can lead to a total reduction in the money supply by a factor of the money multiplier, which is 10. Therefore, the total potential decrease in the money supply is $1 million * 10 = $10 million.

However, since the options provided are slightly different, the closest and most accurate impact considering the typical simplifications in high school economics problems would be:

A. Decreases it by $9 million

This assumes that the initial $1 million withdrawal itself is not counted in the decrease due to the multiplier effect, focusing on the subsequent reduction caused by the multiplier. Thus, the total impact is seen as a decrease of $9 million in addition to the initial $1 million already withdrawn.

So, the correct answer, based on the options given and typical problem simplifications, is A.
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gpto1 A A