Explain Why the Ratio of Assets to Capital Increased Dramatically

question 20

Essay

Explain why the ratio of assets to capital increased dramatically for commercial banks from the 1920s to the present.

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Definitions:

Diminishing Marginal Returns

A principle stating that as investment in a particular area increases, the rate of profit from that investment, after a certain point, cannot increase forever and will eventually decrease.

Marginal Product

The additional output that is produced by adding one more unit of a certain input while holding other inputs constant.

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Law of Diminishing Returns

An economic principle stating that as investment in a particular area increases, the rate of profit from that investment, after a certain point, will begin to decrease, assuming all other variables are constant.