Interest rate is one of the most prominent macroeconomic factors among many other macroeconomic factors. It has direct impact not only on our market but also on other macro economic factors like inflation‚ money supply and investment. Government uses this powerful tool to control money supply‚ inflation‚ recession‚ employment and also investment pattern. Over all‚ we can say that through interest rate government controls the economic phases of a country. Now in question of impact on market; interest
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as simply “printing money” or “the helicopter money” (Milton Friedman)‚ and argue that QE necessarily ends in inflation. Therefore‚ firstly it is necessary to show show the difference between “printing money” and QE policy. Finally‚ combining different economics theories (Monetarist and Keynesian) and QE policy’s assumptions this essay will show that in the short-run QE does bring inflation. But in the long-run it may and even unsustainable one if the central banks use wrong “exit strategies” (explained
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DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING Macroeconomic Assignment Topic: Inflation in the economy and selected measures against inflation TABLE OF CONTENT 1. OVERVIEW OF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN VIETNAM Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization in January 2007 and transformed from a heavily indebted country to a low middle income one in 2010. After opening up the country’s economy to foreign investors‚ its GDP grew by 7.3% on average from 2001 to 2010
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Inflation and Economic Growth in India –An Empirical Analysis Prasanna V Salian1‚ Gopakumar. K2 Abstract This paper seeks to examine the relationship between inflation and GDP growth in India. An empirical evidence is obtained from the cointegration and error correction models using annual data collected from the Reserve Bank of India. The result shows that there is a long-run negative relationship between inflation and GDP growth rate in India. Inflation is harmful rather than helpful to growth
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Inflation is the meaning of an increment in the general level of prices for goods and services in economy over of a period time. GDP deflator (gross domestic product deflator) is a way for measuring the changes in the average of prices of all goods and services that constitute GDP (gross domestic product). As shown in the graph above‚ in year 2007‚ the inflation rate of Singapore higher than United Kingdom. It is because the Singapore’s electronic road pricing (ERP) rates are already raised for
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What is Inflation? Relation between Growth and Inflation What is growth? The increase in an economy’s capacity to produce goods and services‚ compared from one period of time to another is known as Economic Growth. It is measured in nominal terms‚ inflation‚ or in real terms‚ which are adjusted for inflation. Economic growth is generally associated with technological changes. The growth of an economy is thought of not only as an increase in productive capacity but also as an improvement in the quality
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How inflation affects the functions of money? Inflation alludes to a sustained general rise in the prices of goods and services. In other words‚ it means a rise in the level of cost of living. Money is anything that is generally acceptable by the society for the exchange of goods and services. There are different functions of money such as: To act as a medium of exchange –Money is used to trade in goods and services both internally and externally. In this way money eases the exchange of goods within
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into the post 9-11 world. He maintained most of his control of the economy implementing his practice of "inflation targeting". Inflation targeting is a monetary policy tool in which Greenspan would attempt to control the rate of inflation. The Federal Reserve would release to the public a predicted rate of inflation which would be best to grow the economy at a steady rate. If the rate of inflation was growing too quickly‚ the Federal Reserve would raise the short-term interest rates. This raise in
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MACRO-ECONOMICS CHAPTER 4 (MANKIW) INFLATION RATES AND INTEREST RATES: THE FISHER EQUATION NOTES by: Chadia Mathurin Economists differentiate between real and nominal interest rates where: real interest: is defined as the increase or decrease in a consumer’s purchasing power experienced as a result of changes in the interest rate. nominal interest: is defined as the interest payed by the bank. Let: i denote the nominal interest rate r the real interest rate pi ‚ the inflation rate The equation for
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Relationship between Inflation and Interest Rate Interest and inflation are key to investing decisions‚ since they have a direct impact on the investment yield. When prices rise‚ the same unit of a currency is able to buy less. A sustained deterioration in the purchasing power of money is called inflation. Investors aim to preserve the value of their money by opting for investments that generate yields higher than the rate of inflation. In most developed economies‚ banks try to keep the interest
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