All commercial banks within a country hold a proportion of their total deposits with the central bank

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All commercial banks within a country hold a proportion of their total deposits with the central bank (for example, the Federal Reserve in the United States). Why do commercial banks hold such reserves even though they usually earn a low interest rate?

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Financial Markets And Institutions

ISBN: 9781292215006

9th Global Edition

Authors: Stanley Eakins Frederic Mishkin

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