Ch.5 Yield (total return) = Dollar inc + (end-beg) beg. Value Risk of Return = r= Risk Free rate + Risk Prem r=rRF+DRP+LP+MRP Risk Free Rate = rRF = r* + IP -effects of int rates on PV/Price of securities: int goes up‚ value of bonds goes down‚ stock goes down (NPV) Prices -factors that influence int rates/yield curve 1.production opportunities-return avail w/in an economy from inves. In productive asset; higher prod opp‚ higher return 2. Time preferences for consumption 3
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fixed exchange rate system that fixes the exchange rate of Hong Kong Dollar and United State Dollar to a ratio of 7.8: 1 Hong Kong Monetary Authority does not need to stable exchange market by controlling the supply and demand of HKD. It can be stabilized by Fixed-linkage System. In the past 15 years‚ Hong Kong interest rates and exchange rates fluctuated in the same trend of the US interest rate and exchange rate. The graphs below show an example of interest rate and exchange rate respectively:
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1 One-factor Interest Rate Modeling 1 In this lecture... q stochastic models for interest rates q how to derive the bond pricing equation for many fixed-income products q the structure of many popular interest rate models 2 2 Introduction In this lecture we see the ideas behind modeling interest rates us-ing a single source of randomness. This isone-factor interest rate modeling. q The model will allow the short-term interest rate‚ the spot rate‚ to follow a random walk. This model leads
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monetary shocks considered are shocks to the interest rate reaction function equal to 1% compared to the steady-state value for one year. The temporary scal policy shocks correspond to an increase in spending or a decline in revenue for the government of 1% of the baseline GDP‚ for two years. A permanent shock‚ instead‚ consists on a permanent increase in government spending equal to 1% of the steady-state GDP. Benchmark Case: Response to Interest Rate Shocks The authors
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Consumer Spending ECO 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics Anthony Le November 30th‚ 2011 Consumer Spending Consumer spending is defined as “the goods and services bought by the households in the satisfaction of their wants and needs.” (BusinessDictionary.com). It is also known as personal consumption expenditure and is the largest part of aggregate demand or effective demand at the macroeconomic level. Why is consumer spending important in the U.S. economy? In fact‚ consumer spending is the
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Interest rates are among the closely watched variables in the economy. The media on daily bases record their movement because they affect our everyday lives and have crucial consequences for the health of the economy. They affect personal decisions as whether to consume or save‚ whether to buy a house and whether to purchase bonds or put funds into a savings account. Interest rates also affect the economic decisions of households or businesses such as whether to put their money in the
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Individual International Economic Institutions Outline the role and functions of the following economic institutions: The IMF World Bank The WTO Discuss the criticisms/ complaints that have been made against each of these institutions. How can the above institutions assist in the process of economic development of Jamaica? Document Submission- Due date: October 12‚ 2014 The IMF The International Monetary Function is provide short terms credit to member countries for meeting temporary difficulties
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(or longer) at a fixed rate. However‚ since the general level of interest rates were pretty high‚ and Goodrich’s credit ratings had dropped from BBB to BBB-. Goodrich believed that it would have to pay 13% interest for a 30 year corporate debenture. Salomon Brothers had advised Goodrich that they could borrow in the US public debt market with a floating rate debt issue tied to the LIBOR‚ and then swap payments with Euro market bank that had raised funds in the fixed-rate Eurobond market. Note:
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is 30%. What is the return on assets of Google‚ Inc.(No more than two decimals in the percentage interest rate‚ but do not enter the % sign.) Answer for Question 3 Question 4 (10 points) Suppose CAPM holds‚ and the beta of the equity of your company is 2.00. The expected market risk premium (the difference between the expected market return and the risk-free rate) is 4.5% and the risk-free rate is 3.00%. Suppose the debt-to-equity ratio of your company is 20% and the market believes that the
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making of a government official in many ways. One of the person who can effect the decision making process of the official is lobbyist. Lobbyist are the people who effect the decision making process of the government officials in seeking a different outcome rather than the expected one. Likewise‚ there are interest groups who are responsible for being the voice of the people on different subject. Interest group represent the general public for showing some dissatisfaction on the government decisions
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