In this pack of ECO 316 Week 3 Chapter 16 Banking in the International Economy you will find the answers to the following questions:<\/b><\/p>\n
16.1 Multiple Choice Questions<\/p>\n
1) Before World War II<\/p>\n
2) Before World War II<\/p>\n
3) Which of the following is NOT true of the U.S. economy before World War II?<\/p>\n
4) By 2006, international bank lending in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan amounted to<\/p>\n
5) The principal activities of international banking are<\/p>\n
6) Which of the following is NOT one of the three leading financial centers in the world?<\/p>\n
7) Which of the following countries has the longest history of international banking?<\/p>\n
8) Participation in international banking by U.S. banks has<\/p>\n
9) Which of the following is of greatest importance in explaining the rapid growth of international banking activities by Japanese banks during the 1980s?<\/p>\n
10) During the 1990s, the share of international bank loans held by Japanese banks<\/p>\n
11) An “offshore market” is<\/p>\n
12) Which of the following does NOT represent an important offshore market?<\/p>\n
13) Branches of U.S. banks in which city control the most assets?<\/p>\n
14) Edge Act Corporations are<\/p>\n
15) Which of the following may an Edge Act Corporation NOT do?<\/p>\n
16) The activities of a U.S. bank holding company that owns a controlling interest in a foreign financial services company are governed by<\/p>\n
17) IBFs are<\/p>\n
18) Which of the following is NOT a reason that IBFs have been desirable to banks?<\/p>\n
19) What percentage of total U.S. bank assets is held by foreign banks?<\/p>\n
20) Experts studying the lending patterns of Japanese and other foreign-owned banks in the United States have found that these banks<\/p>\n
21) An agency office of a foreign bank<\/p>\n
22) Which of the following is true of an agency office of a foreign bank?<\/p>\n
23) A foreign branch bank<\/p>\n
24) The Riegle-Neal Act of 1994<\/p>\n
25) A U.S. subsidiary of a foreign bank<\/p>\n
26) The International Banking Act of 1978<\/p>\n
27) The Foreign Bank Supervision Enhancement Act of 1991 was passed as a result of<\/p>\n
28) The Foreign Bank Supervision Enhancement Act of 1991<\/p>\n
29) As of 1997, about what percentage of Citicorp’s assets are held abroad?<\/p>\n
30) In which of the following countries has the Bank of China NOT shown significant expansion?<\/p>\n
31) Banks are subject to exchange rate risk when<\/p>\n
32) The Bank of Credit and Commerce International failed because of<\/p>\n
33) A U.S. bank has ?50 million in deposits and makes a loan of ?100 million when the exchange rate is $1 = ?1. 5. If the exchange rate changes to $1 = ?2, then the bank’s net worth will change by<\/p>\n
34) A U.S. bank has ?75 million in deposits and makes a loan of ?90 million when the exchange rate is $1 = ?1. 5. If the exchange rate changes to $1 = ?1, then the bank’s net worth will change by<\/p>\n
35) How can a bank avoid exchange rate risk?<\/p>\n
36) What is the approximate daily volume of foreign-exchange trading?<\/p>\n
37) Most of the foreign-exchange trading volume of banks is with<\/p>\n
38) Most of the foreign-exchange trading of banks is carried out in order to facilitate<\/p>\n
39) A currency swap is<\/p>\n
40) How may a U.S. bank keep its balance sheet entirely in U.S. dollars?<\/p>\n
41) Why is credit risk in international commerce magnified?<\/p>\n
42) A bankers’ acceptance is<\/p>\n
43) When were U.S. banks authorized to use bankers’ acceptances for short-term financing of their customers’ foreign and domestic trade?<\/p>\n
44) The use of bankers’ acceptances is most useful in reducing<\/p>\n
45) Which of the following statements concerning the volume of outstanding bankers’ acceptances in the United States since the 1920s is accurate?<\/p>\n
46) Which of the following is true of bankers’ acceptances?<\/p>\n
47) Before World War II what was the leading global financial and commercial center?<\/p>\n
48) What is the international transaction currency?<\/p>\n
49) What was the international transaction currency before World War II?<\/p>\n
50) The Eurodollar arose from<\/p>\n
51) Eurodollars are<\/p>\n
52) Which of the following was NOT an important factor in the rise of the Eurodollar market?<\/p>\n
53) Eurocurrency deposits are<\/p>\n
54) What is the dominant currency in the Euromarkets?<\/p>\n
55) Since the late 1980s, the share of eurocurrency deposits denominated in dollars<\/p>\n
56) A key reason the commercial paper market developed later in Europe than in the United States is that<\/p>\n
57) Booking sites are<\/p>\n
58) Through the early 1970s the largest borrowers on Euromarkets were<\/p>\n
59) From the mid-1970s to the late 1980s the largest source of deposits in Euromarkets was<\/p>\n
60) Today, the countries with large trade surpluses to deposit in Eurodollar accounts are<\/p>\n
61) The LIBOR is the<\/p>\n
62) The typical Eurodollar loan<\/p>\n
63) What is the primary motivation for loan syndication in the Euroloan market?<\/p>\n
64) Why did the volume of ly syndicated loans in Euromarkets decline during the 1970s and 1980s?<\/p>\n
65) Eurobonds<\/p>\n
66) The effect of evolving financial market regulation has been to<\/p>\n
67) International coordination of minimum capital requirements for commercial banks began in<\/p>\n
68) A key difficulty that banks encounter in lending to foreign governments is that<\/p>\n
69) From 1970 until the early 1980s the creditworthiness of many developing nations was improving because<\/p>\n
70) Currently, U.S. banks pay deposit insurance premiums on<\/p>\n
71) Central banks have met to discuss their roles as lender of last resort several times at the<\/p>\n
72) Discussion of the possibility of setting up an international lender of last resort began following the<\/p>\n
73) In which of the following countries was a deposit insurance fund first established?<\/p>\n
74) Recent research has found that deposit insurance<\/p>\n
75) The most likely direction of bank regulation internationally will be to<\/p>\n
76) Which of the following is likely to be true as the international coordination of bank regulation continues?<\/p>\n
77) The growth of Islamic banking in recent years has occurred for all of the following reasons EXCEPT<\/p>\n
78) A problem facing Islamic banking is<\/p>\n
79) The bulk of financing by Islamic banks involves<\/p>\n
80) In the Islamic religion, it is forbidden to<\/p>\n
16.2 Essay Questions<\/p>\n
1) Why was international banking unimportant for U.S. banks, savers, and borrowers before World War II? Is it likely that its importance may ever recede to a low level again?<\/p>\n
2) Which countries are the most important centers of international banking? Why is international banking concentrated in these countries?<\/p>\n
3) What is a Euroloan? What are its typical characteristics? Why is it very likely to be syndicated?<\/p>\n
4) Suppose your bank has made a loan of 50 million euros, but has deposits of only 25 million euros. If the exchange rate was $1 = 0.75 euro at the time the loan was made, but subsequently changes to $1 = 0.90 euro, what is the impact on the net worth of your bank? Suppose the exchange rate changes to $1 = 0.65 euro?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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