monetary policy rule‚ it will Answer aggressively increase inflation if the interest rate exceeds the target interest rate. aggressively increase interest rates if the inflation rate exceeds the target inflation rate. only slightly increase inflation if the interest rate exceeds the target interest rate. only slightly increase interest rates if the inflation rate exceeds the target inflation rate. During the Christmas shopping season the demand for money increases significantly
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Chapter 5 : Interet rates Page161 Interest rate quotes and adjustments 5-1. Your bank is offering you an account that will pay 20% interest in total for a two-year deposit. Determine the equivalent discount rate for a period length of a. Six months. b. One year. c. One month. a. Since 6 months is [pic] of 2 years‚ using our rule [pic] So the equivalent 6 month rate is 4.66%. b. Since one year is half of 2 years [pic] So the equivalent 1 year rate is 9.54%. c. Since
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allows for only moderate increases in wages. According to this article‚ the unit labor costs in Germany increased by only 4% from 1998 to 2008‚ while they increased by 20% in France and 32% in Greece. Germany’s trade surplus grew significantly in the same period. France’s trade deficit with Germany‚ however‚ increased significantly. The French Minister for Economic Affairs‚ Lagarde‚ asked Germany to boost the do-mestic demand‚ which stagnated due to the slow growth of the unit labor costs and wages
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between exchange rates‚ interest rates • In this lecture we will learn how exchange rates accommodate equilibrium in financial markets. For this purpose we examine the relationship between interest rates and exchange rates. Interest rates are the return to holding interest-bearing financial assets. In the previous lecture we have pointed out that as being a financial asset exchange rates tend to adjust more quickly to new information that goods prices. Like exchange rates‚ interest rates are also the prices
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versus floating exchange rates Introduction The exchange rate regime The exchange rate regime is the way a country manages its currency in respect to foreign currencies and the foreign exchange market. Each country has its exchange rate policy which determines the form of a government influence on the currency exchange rate. There are three main type of the exchange rate regime: • a floating exchange rate‚ where the market dictates the movements of the exchange rate‚ • and the fixed
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6.1 Risk Structure of Interest Rates 1) The risk structure of interest rates is A) the structure of how interest rates move over time. B) the relationship among interest rates of different bonds with the same maturity. C) the relationship among the term to maturity of different bonds. D) the relationship among interest rates on bonds with different maturities. 2) The risk that interest payments will not be made‚ or that the face value of a bond is
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1: The Science of Macroeconomics Macroeconomics is the study of the economy as a whole. It addresses many topical issues which includes growth in incomes‚ changes in the overall level of prices‚ and the unemployment rate. Macroeconomists attempt to explain the economy and to devise policies to improve its performance. Economists use different models to examine different issues. Macroeconomic events and performance arise from many microeconomic transactions‚ so macroeconomics uses many of the
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Macroeconomic study of deal not with individual but aggregate of these quantities not with individual incomes but nation incomes not with individual output but with the nation output Macroeconomic as two policies which are; Financial or monetary macroeconomic policies: The government can make the balance of how money can be supply. The money can be supply in three term which are: OMO- Open Market Operation Reserve requirement Interest Rate OMO can supply money into the bank through
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Part I – Relation between BI rate and banks interest rate A. BI rate We take the BI rate‚ as the variable being estimated‚ from the period of 2006 until 2012. We then take the average rate in each year‚ rather than taking the rate in each month. As a note to the year 2012‚ we take the average rate that ranges only from January until August. Figure 1. BI rate (Percent per Annum) Source : Indonesian Financial Statistics‚ Bank of Indonesia‚ http://www.bi.go.id/web/en/Statistik/Statistik+
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Goodrich-Rabobank Interest Rate Swap In 1983‚ both B.F. Goodrich and Rabobank needed to execute external financing in order to raise 50 million dollars for ongoing operations. Goodrich wanted to raise the money through debt financing‚ but because their bonds were BBB- rated‚ they would have to pay a steep interest rate for a fixed rate. However‚ the Solomon brothers had an idea. Goodrich could borrow with a floating rate that was tied to LIBOR and then swap interest payments with a Euromarket
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