Assume that banks are subject to a 10 percent reserve requirement and that they do not hold voluntary reserves. Also assume that agents do not hold cash but keep all their money in deposits. By how much would the money stock (M1) grow after the central bank conducts an open-market operation in which it buys government bonds for a value of 100?
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