Question: please help 1. Consider the following balance sheet for a hypothetical financial institution, Bank A and Bank B Bank A's Balance Sheet Assets 100 Liabilities

 please help 1. Consider the following balance sheet for a hypothetical

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financial institution, Bank A and Bank B Bank A's Balance Sheet Assets

1. Consider the following balance sheet for a hypothetical financial institution, Bank A and Bank B Bank A's Balance Sheet Assets 100 Liabilities 80 Capital 20 Bank A's Balance Sheet Assets 100 Liabilities 90 Capital 10 (1) Calculate the leverage ratio of Bank A and B, respectively (2) Suppose the value of assets may drop by 20% with a probability of 10%. (otherwise, stay the same, i.e., it is the only risk). Calculate the probability of being in insolvency for each bank. (3) For simplicity, suppose banks can also issue bonds. Calculate the risk premiums for the bonds issued by each bank that give the same expected rate of return as the risk-free bond whose interest rate is 4%. (Further assume that 1. if a bank becomes insolvent, the bond holders will get nothing, 2. issuing new bonds won't affect the probability of being in insolvency calculated from (2)) 2. Following the financial crisis, regulatory capital requirements for the banking system increased in the new Basel Accords. Based on the discussion from Question 1, what would be the effect on the financial market. 3. What would be the effect of the new Basel Accords on the IS-LM model, if we assume that the central bank's target interest rate remains the same? And how it would effect the equilibrium from the IS-LM model? 4. Suppose now people in the economy believe that inflation in next year will increase, as the economy will be fully reopened in the following year. What's the effect on real interest rate and output

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