In its original conception‚ a liquidity trap refers to the phenomenon when increased money supply fails to lower(*) interest rates. Usually central banks try to lower interest rates by buying bonds with newly created cash. In a liquidity trap‚ bonds pay little to no interest‚ which makes them nearly equivalent to cash. Under the narrow version of Keynesian theory in which this arises‚ it is specified that monetary policy affects the economy only through its effect on interest rates. Thus‚ if an economy
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“The Rat Trap” Literary Analysis Plot Summary: “The Rat Trap” by Selma Lagerlöf describes the life of a man who sells rat traps. The-rat trap peddler realizes that the whole world is a rat-trap. He falls into life’s rat-trap‚ starting when he stays at an old man’s house and succumbs to the temptation of stealing the man’s money. He avoids the town and wanders through the woods to escape being caught by the police. The rat-trap peddler stays at a furnace‚ where the ironmaster talks to him‚ thinking
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Liquidity Ratio Analysis What It Measures Liquidity ratios are a set of ratios or figures that measure a company’s ability to pay off its short-term debt obligations. This is done by measuring a company’s liquid assets (including those that might easily be converted into cash) against its short-term liabilities. There are a number of different liquidity ratios‚ which each measure slightly different types of assets when calculating the ratio. More conservative measures will exclude assets that
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Measuring liquidity risk can be separated into two main categories‚ measures of liquidity risk itself and measures of asset liquidity. These two main parts are than divided into two and four sub-categories respectively. Banks and other financial intermediaries often measure their liquidity risk using either the liquidity gap or the liquidity risk elasticity techniques. On the other hand measures of asset liquidity include bid-offer spread‚ market depth‚ immediacy‚ and resilience. Measures of liquidity
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LIQUIDITY PREFERENCE THEORY Definition (also called liquidity preference hypothesis) Observation that‚ all else being equal‚ people prefer to hold on to cash (liquidity) and that they will demand a premium for investing in non-liquid assets such as bonds‚ stocks and real estate. The theory suggests that the premium demanded for parting with cash increases as the period (term) for getting the cash back increases. The rate in the increase of this premium‚ however‚ slows down with the increase
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One April morning‚ Martha House‚ president of Trap-Ease‚ entered her office in Moncton‚ New Brunswick. She paused for a moment to contemplate the Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation that she had framed and hung near her desk: “If a man [can] make a better mousetrap than his neighbor … the world will make a beaten path to his door.” Perhaps‚ she mused‚ Emerson knew something that she didn’t. She had the better mousetrap—Trap-Ease—but the world didn’t seem all that excited about it. Martha had just
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Liquidity‚ liquidity‚ liquidity….. In the context of the events of the last few years just how important is liquidity to the survival and well-being of Financial Institutions? Some believe it has a greater influence on events than Capital! Discuss. (In this assignment you need to outline the role of liquidity‚ issues arising when liquidity is scarce and compare the role of liquidity to that of Capital but most importantly give your own view on these matters) Role of Liquidity Liquidity can
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2) Has Martha identified the best target market for Trap-Ease? What other market segments might the firm target? Martha has targeted women for her product. She feels that women are the best group to target because they don’t like the mess or the risks created by traditional mouse traps. But what Martha doesn’t know about is woman is a large segment that is too wide to be targeted properly. In the society‚ woman population is shrinking rapidly causing market that Martha is targeting is shrinking
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IMPACT OF LIQUIDITY RISK ON PERFORMANCE Abstract Liquidity risk arises when there is discrepancy between the demand of borrowers and the inabilities to meet these demands. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the liquidity risk and the impact of liquidity risk on performance of the manufacturing sector. Methodology Least square regression model is used in this study. Data of manufacturing sector is used to achieve the objective of this research paper. ROA and EPS are used as measures
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