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Macroeconomics Flashcards

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Categories of Economic Systems

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(1) Capitalism
(2) Communism/ Socialism
(3) Mixed economies

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Capitalism

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AKA Free Enterprise

A system where private parties own most of the means of production and make most economic decisions

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Communism/ Socialism

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A system where government entities own most of the means of production and make most economic decisions

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Mixed Economies

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“In between” systems where both private parties and governments own substantial fractions of the means of production and make substantial fractions of the economic decisions

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Benchmarks to Measure Economic Activity

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(1) GDP
(2) Real GDP
(3) GNP

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Gross Domestic Product

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“GDP” or “Nominal GDP”

Total dollar amount at current market prices, of all the final goods and services produced within one country’s borders regardless of citizenship or headquarter location of parties involved

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Two Ways to Calculate GDP

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(1) Income Approach

(2) Expenditure Approach

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Income Approach

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Sums all income earned in the production of final goods and services, such as wages, interest, rents, business profits, plus adjustments for indirect taxes and economic depreciation

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Expenditure Approach

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Sums all expenditures to purchase final goods and services by households, businesses, the government, and foreign sectors, minus adjustments for expenditures produced abroad

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Real GDP

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GDP adjusted for inflation

Total dollar value of all the final goods and services produced expressed using a price level that is constant over time

Most commonly used and most comprehensive measure of economic production

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How is Nominal GDP Adjusted to Yield Real GDP

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By removing the effects of increases in price from the sum of total purchases of goods

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Most commonly used and most comprehensive measure of economic production

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Real GDP

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Potential GDP

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Computed in both nominal and real versions - helps to estimate the degree to which the economy is either underutilizing resources or “overheating”

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Who Computes Potential GDP

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The Congressional Budget Office

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Gross National Product

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Total dollar value of all goods and services produced by a country’s residents, including companies headquartered there regardless of whether they were produced within or outside that country’s borders

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Inflation

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Percentage rate of increase in the price level of goods or services, commonly reported on annual or year-on-year basis

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If Inflation is Higher, Money is….

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Losing it’s purchasing power

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3 Common Measures of Price Inflation

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(1) Consumer Price Index (CPI)
(2) Producer Price Index (PPI)
(3) GDP deflator

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Consumer Price Index (CPI)

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Compares the price of a fixed basket of goods and services a typical urban customer might purchase in an earlier base period and the price of the same basket at later times - used to convert “nominal” figures that are not readily comparable across years into “real” figures that use the same level of prices and are therefore more comparable

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Hyperinflation

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Similar to inflation except the value of currency is decreased at a much faster rate so prices increase much more rapidly

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Deflation

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General decline in price level, solution is to increase money supply

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Producer Price Index (PPI)

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Compares the price of a fixed basket of goods, inputs, and materials purchased by producers at the wholesale level

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GDP Deflator

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Most comprehensive measure of price levels including prices paid by all parties included in GDP instead of only consumers; Index used to convert nominal GDP into real GDP

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Aggregate Demand Curve

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Seeks to represent the relationship between:

(1) Total expenditures by consumers, businesses, government, and the foreign sector

AND

(2) The price level at a given point in time

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Factors that Cause Aggregate Demand Curve to Slope Downwards

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(1) Interest rate effect
(2) Wealth effect
(3) International purchasing power effect

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Interest Rate Effect

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Higher inflation rates increase nominal interest rates and may decrease consumer borrowing reducing the quantity demanded of items whose purchase is typically financed

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Wealth Effect

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Higher inflation rated reduced the value of most fixed income investments - having less wealth individuals may consume less

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International Purchasing Power Effect

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Domestic inflation makes domestic goods and services more expensive in relation to foreign ones, increases quantity demanded of foreign products and decreases quantity demanded for domestic goods and services

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Aggregate Supply Curve

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Seeks to represent the relationship between:

(1) Total goods and services produced

AND

(2) The price level at a given point of time
* Generally sloping upward

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Possible Causes of Inflation

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(1) Demand-pull inflation

(2) Cost-push inflation

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Demand-Pull Inflation

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“The demand curve shifted upward”

When aggregate spending increases, the demand curve moves to the right causing market equilibrium to occur at higher price levels

Excess demand bids up cost of labor and other resources

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Causes of Excess Demand in Demand-Pull Inflation

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(1) Improved expectations by consumers or businesses
(2) The foreign sector
(3) Government fiscal and monetary policy that turned out to be too loose

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Short-Term Phillips Curve

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In the short term there is a trade off between inflation and unemployment

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Cost-Push Inflation

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“The supply curve shifted inward”

If producers/suppliers within one country face increases in the costs of using some inputs the aggregate supply curve would shift to the left causing market equilibrium to occur at a higher price level and at a lower quantity

Since prices of many production inputs are set in international markets, individual countries may experience changes in input costs that are not strictly or directly related to economic conditions in that country

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Stagflation

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Used to describe periods of high inflation and high unemployment

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Multiplier Effect

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Increase in final income arising from any new injections

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Increase in Output (Multiplier Effect Formula)

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Change in spending / Marginal Propensity to Save

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Business Cycles

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Fluctuations in economic production typically lasting several years

Each business cycle includes one recession/contraction and one expansion

Begins at the peak from the previous expansion and ends at it’s trough

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Expansion

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Extended period of increased economic production

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Recession/Contraction

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Brief (typically) periods of decreased economic production

Recession - periods of at least two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real GDP

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Depression

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Recession that is either particularly deep or long lasting, no formal agreement as to boundary between recession and depression

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Recovery

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Early stages of an expansion, commonly thought to become a full expansion when the peak from the previous expansion is surpassed

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Categories of Indicators Economists Track to Gauge, Evaluate, and Predict Current and Future Economic Conditions

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(1) Leading indicators
(2) Coincident Indicators
(3) Lagging indicators

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Leading Indicators

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Seek to predict whether expansions (or recessions) are likely to end within the next few months

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Examples Of Leading Indicators

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(1) Stock market prices
(2) Average hours worked per week
(3) New orders for durable goods
(4) Average initial claims for unemployment insurance
(5) Building permits
(6) New private housing starts

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Coincident Indicators

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Normally move up and down simultaneously with economic expansions and recessions

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Examples of Coincident Indicators

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(1) Industrial production

(2) Manufacturing and trade sales

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Lagging Indicators

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Only move up and down months after economic change

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Examples of Lagging Indicators

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(1) Average prime rate for bank loans
(2) Average duration of unemployment
(3) Unemployment rate

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Types of Unemployment

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(1) Frictional
(2) Structural
(3) Cyclical
(4) Institutional

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Frictional Unemployment

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Result of normal turnover of workers between jobs or of new entrants to the workforce; unavoidable will always have some of this type of unemployment even at full employment

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Structural Unemployment

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Workers who lose their jobs as a result of changes in the demands for goods and services or of technological advances that reduce the need for their current skills

Addressing this type of unemployment generally requires retraining

Underlying problem is speed with which workers may be retrained to meet new demands and technologies

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Cyclical Unemployment

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Job losses resulting from fluctuations in the business cycle

Key concern during recession; decreases during expansions

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Institutional Unemployment

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Not recognized by all economists

Affects workers who can’t find employment as a result of government restrictions on the economy

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Full Employment

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“Natural” or “non-accelerating-inflation” rate of employment “NAIRU”

Rates below which unemployment may not fall sustainably without causing boom conditions that eventually may result in higher rates of inflation

Sum of frictional and structural unemployment (and institutional if recognized)

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Interest Rates

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Prices that borrowers pay in exchange for funds

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Types of Interest Rates

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(1) Nominal interest rate
(2) Real interest rate
(3) Risk free interest rate
(4) Federal funds rate (Discount rate)
(5) Prime Rate

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Nominal Interest Rates

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Those normally quoted by financial institutions

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Real Interest Rates

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Interest rates adjusted for inflation

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Risk Free Interest Rates

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Those that would be charged to borrowers if lenders had an absolute certainty of being repaid

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Federal Funds Rate (Discount Rate)

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Rates that commercial banks charge and pay one another for short-term loans of reserves at the Fed

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Prime Rate

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Rate banks charge their most creditworthy business customers on short-term loans

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Types of Government Involvement in the Economy

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(1) Fiscal policy
(2) Monetary policy
(3) Regulatory policy

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Fiscal Policy

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Involves government setting, applying, and changing levels of taxes, subsidies, and government spending

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Expansionary Fiscal Policy

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Uses deficit spending to increase aggregate demand and thus output

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Appropriate Conditions for Using Expansionary Fiscal Policy

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(1) Economic production is below potential
(2) Financial sector failing to lend funds adequately
(3) Unemployment rates are too high

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Deficit Spending

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Involves increasing spending levels without increasing tax revenues by equivalent amount

OR

Lowering tax revenues without decreasing spending by equivalent amounts

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Federal Deficit

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The amount by which government expenditures exceed revenues within a period of time

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How is federal deficit financed?

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Through the sale of US Treasurys

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Federal Debt

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Total amount of outstanding US Treasurys or the sum of past deficits

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Contractionary Fiscal Policy

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Uses budget surpluses to reduce aggregate demand and thus, inflation

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Appropriate Conditions for the Use of Contractionary Fiscal Policy

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(1) Economic production is above potential

(2) There are concerns about boom economic conditions and current or upcoming rates of inflation that are too high

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Federal Surplus

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Revenues exceed expenditures

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Monetary Policy

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Involves efforts by the Fed to manage credit conditions, interest rates, and the money supply

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Key Goals of Monetary Policy

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(1) Maximizing economic growth
(2) Minimizing unemployment rates
(3) Minimizing inflation rates
(4) Minimizing economic and financial fluctuations

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Tools Used in Monetary Policy

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(1) Reserve requirements (ratio)
(2) Discount Rate
(3) Open market operations

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Reserve Requirements (Ratio)

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May affect the total amount of lending in the economy by changing the percentage of customers deposits that banks are required to hold in reserves

Rarely used in recent decades

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Discount Rate

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May affect the total amount of lending in the economy by changing the interest rate that it charges banks for short term emergency loans

Rarely used as few banks request these loans to avoid stigma of telling the Fed they need emergency help

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Open-Market Operations

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Setting a target for the federal funds rate and buying and selling short-term US Treasurys to ensure that actual rate in the federal funds market meets it’s target

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Most Highly Used Monetary Policy in Recent Decades

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Open market operations

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Expansionary Open-Market Operations

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(1) Lower target for federal funds rate

(2) Buy government securities on the open market to increase the amount of reserves available for banks to lend

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Contractionary Open-Market Operations

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(1) Increase target for federal funds rate

(2) Selling government securities on open market

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Regulatory Policy

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Government may influence economic activity through regulations affecting environmental issues, labor issues, occupational health and safety, energy policy, healthcare, bank capital, lending practices, etc

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Classical Economic Theory

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Argues that, in the absence of government induced distortions, economies would be largely self stabilizing with only relatively small fluctuations in unemployment and inflation rates

Doesn’t support government intervention

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Keynesian Theory

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Argues that prices and wages in the economy do not adjust quickly enough on their own - economies would not self-stabilize quickly enough and governments must use fiscal policy to manage macroeconomic conditions

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Monetarist Theory

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Argues that to minimize fluctuations in both unemployment and inflation rates, central banks should target rate of growth in money (and thus lending) that are stable over time

Focuses on stable monetary growth not stable interest rates; argues that efforts by the fed to occasionally increase monetary growth by more than the long-term average are more likely to add instability than to succeed in minimizing it

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Fed Actions Under Monetarist Theory

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(1) Allow interest rates to climb if banks and borrowers wanted to lend and borrow more than the long-term average growth rate of money (and lending)
(2) Allow interest rates to fall if banks and borrowers wanted to lend and borrow less than the long-term average

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Supply Side Theory

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Argues that government policy should focus less on managing short-term fluctuations in the aggregate demand cure and more on removing impediments to economic productions thereby shifting the aggregate supply curve outward over the long term

Investigate what government laws and regulations may be counterproductive and update or remove them

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Laffer Curve

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If tax rates are high enough, increasing them further will not yield more revenue; under such conditions lowering tax rates may increase revenues

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Theory Closest to Current Macroeconomic Thinking

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New Keynesian Theory

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New Keynesian Theory

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Combines some elements of both Keynesian and Monetarist Theory

Argues that the relationships between monetary aggregates and economic conditions have been too loose to rely strictly on a constant rate of monetary growth to minimize fluctuations in unemployment and inflation rates. Policymakers should use both fiscal and monetary policy to manage macroeconomic conditions, loosening/tightening both in response to higher rates of unemployment/inflation

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Austrian Theory

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Provides insights as to how monetary policy may lead to dislocations in the allocation of resources play a role in the formation of bubbles, and contribute to boom-bust cycles

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International Trade Theory

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(1) Trade among individuals and firms across borders is mutually beneficial
(2) Over time trade tends to increase the average standards of living for all parties involved
(3) Trade across countries increases overall production (and consumption) as the different parties specialize in producing more of the products and services that as a result of differences in resources, climate, and specific skills, each party can provide more of

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Types of Trade Related Advantages

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(1) Absolute Advantage

(2) Comparative Advantage

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Absolute Advantage

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A country being able to produce a good at a lower cost than another country

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Comparative Advantage

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A country being able to produce a good at a lower relative cost than another country; opportunity costs are less

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Natural Barriers to International Trade

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(1) Transportation Costs

(2) Information Costs

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Transportation Costs

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Transportation costs may overwhelm the cost reductions offered by trade

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Information Costs

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Relative costs of many products across many countries are always changing, most firms find it easier to keep track of relative costs in relatively smaller numbers of markets - particularly those that are closer by - therefore individuals and firms routinely forgo many possible gains from trade

Greatly reduced due to improvement in communication technology

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Tariffs

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Taxes on imported goods

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Effects of Trade Restrictions on Domestic Producers of Protected Goods

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(1) Positive Effect
(2) Demand curve shifts to the right
(3) Availability of substitute goods have been reduced
(4) Sell more goods at higher prices
(5) Typically sought by management and unions - benefit from higher sales and prices
(6) Some gains passed on to owners, managers, and workers - higher wages and more job security

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Effects of Trade Restrictions on Domestic Users

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(1) Negative effect
(2) Supply chain shifts left
(3) Pay higher prices and are able to buy fewer goods

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Effects of Trade Restrictions on Domestic Producers of Exported Goods

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(1) Negative effect
(2) Demand curve shifts left
(3) Their consumers suffer as they pay higher prices on protected goods

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Effects of Trade Restrictions on Foreign Producers Encountering Protection Elsewhere

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(1) Negative effect
(2) Demand curve shifts left
(3) Lower sales and prices

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Effects of Trade Restrictions on Foreign Users of Protected Goods

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(1) Positive effect
(2) Supply curve shifts right as their producers will have to do more selling in their own market
(3) Can buy more goods at lower prices

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World Trade Organization

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International organization that:

(1) Provides a forum to resolve international trade disputes
(2) Provides a forum to continue to negotiate greater liberalization of international trade policies
(3) Seeks to help prevent trade wars and growth of other barriers

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G-20

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(1) Main forum that governments of the leading countries use to discuss global economic and financial stability
(2) Brings together 20 leading economies
(3) Includes both higher and lower income countries

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Economic Union

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Providing for the free circulation of goods, services, firms, capital, residents, and labor

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Monetary Union

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Share a single currency

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Import Quotas

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Place limits on the quantity of a good that may be imported during a period

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Embargoes

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Total bans on importing either a number of goods or nearly all goods from a country

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Voluntary Export Restraint

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Government impose limit on the quantity of some category of goods that can be exported to a specified country during a specified period of time

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Foreign-Exchange Controls

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Policies that may restrict the types of domestic parties that may use foreign currencies and their uses

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Dumping

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A manufacturer being found to have exported a product to one country at a price that was unjustifiably low and harmed the domestic producers of that country.

Regulations to determine whether firms priced their products below their cost of production are difficult to maneuver for all countries

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Dual Pricing Strategies

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Charging different prices in different countries

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Export Subsidies

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Used to encourage production and export of specific products

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Forms of Export Subsidies

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(1) Outright payments
(2) Favored tax treatment
(3) Access to subsidized lending

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Countervailing Duties

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Tariffs imposed under WTO rules when WTO panel finds that one country is in breach of international trade rules

If the country in breach refuses to correct the situation, the countries bringing the complaint may impose for an equivalent amount on products from the offending country

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Balance of Payments

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Summarizes a country’s transactions with other countries during a period of time

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2 Key Components of Balance of Payments

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(1) The current account

(2) The capital account

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Current Account

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Focuses on the flow of goods and services as well as flows of government grants, net interest and dividends, and net unilateral transfers during a specific period of time

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What Makes up the Current Account

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(1) Balance of trade
(2) Balance of goods and services
(3) Net interest and dividends
(4) Net unilateral transfers

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Balance of Trade

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Difference between goods exported and goods imported

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Trade Surplus

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Exports higher than imports

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Trade Deficit

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Imports higher than exports

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Balance of Goods and Services

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Difference between goods and services exported and goods and services exported

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Net Interest and Dividends

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Any interest and dividends received within a country from investments outside the country minus the interest paid to residents outside the country for investments within the country

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Net Unilateral Transfers

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Include foreign aid payments and pension payments. Affect to deficit or surplus

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The Capital Account

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Focuses on the flow of investments in fixed assets during a specific period of time.

Largely reverse image of current account - country with current account deficit will have matching capital account surplus

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International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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International organization that seeks to aid in the coordination of countries economic policies; may be only party willing to provide countries funding during crisis (at relatively low rates or at all).

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Typical IMF Requirements in Exchange for Short Term Help

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Countries must reduce their budget deficits and debts and engage in other supply side structural reforms over the long term

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Repatriation of Currency

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Process of importing foreign currency into your own country’s currency at the current exchange rate

133
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The Spot Rate

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Exchange rate at which a financial party will exchange two currencies at this time

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The Forward Rate

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Exchange rate at which a financial party will exchange two currencies at a specific future rate (called settlement rate)

135
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Forward Market Currency is at a Premium if

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It’s forward rate is higher

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Forward Market Currency is at a Discount if

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It’s forward rate is lower

137
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Formula to Calculate Forward Premium or Discount

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(Forward Rate - Spot Rate)/ Spot Rate X Months in a year/ Months in the forward period

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Factors Affecting Foreign Exchange Rates

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(1) Inflation
(2) Interest Rates
(3) Balance of payments
(4) Government intervention
(5) Long-Term Economic Stability

139
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Safe Haven Effect

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During international crisis, international investors tend to buy more of the currencies of the countries traditionally perceived to be more stable

140
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Exchange Rate Systems

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Used to manage the value of currencies relative to those of other countries

141
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Types of Exchange Rate Systems

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(1) Floating exchange rates
(2) Fixed exchange rates
(3) Managed exchange rates

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Floating Exchange Rate

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A country’s central bank never (or rarely) buys and sells foreign currencies to influence the exchange rate of it’s currency relative to those of other countries. Instead the currency’s exchange rates are set by the supply and demand of the currency by private parties and the actions of other foreign central banks - few countries have ever used

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Fixed Exchange Rates

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Country’s bank stands ready to buy and sell foreign currencies as needed constantly to maintain it’s rate “fixed” relative to the currency of a key trading partner

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Managed Exchange Rates

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Fall between floating and fixed exchange rates

Country’s central bank may buy and sell foreign currencies to minimize short term fluctuations in exchange rates away from long-term underlying trends and/or target a broad band within which the currency may fluctuate

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Translation Risk

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Risk that a company’s equities, liabilities, or income will change in value as a result of exchange rate changes; occurs when companies deal in foreign currencies or list foreign assets on their balance sheet

146
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Transaction Risk

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Exchange rte risk associated with the time delay between entering into a contract and settling it due to potential fluctuations in exchange rates

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How to Manage Translation Risk

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Matching assets and liabilities in each market entity operates in

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How to Manage Transaction Risk

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Matching as many revenues and costs as possible in each market or using derivatives or hedging contracts

149
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Hedging Options

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Permit but don’t require the holders to buy or sell commodities or instruments at a given price until some date or at some date

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Call Options

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Permit the holder to buy a security at a fixed price

151
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Put Option

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Permit the holder to sell a security at a fixed price

152
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Forward Contract

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Specifically-negotiated contracts in which two parties agree to exchange some quantity of a commodity or instrument at a pre-set price on a future date

153
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Futures Contract

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Standardized versions of forward contracts that are traded in exchange markets

154
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Currency Swap

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Contracts under which one party A agrees to make payments in one currency to party B and the other party B agrees to make payments to party A in the other currency independently of how spot rates change during that period of time

155
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Money Market Hedges

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Involve turning transaction risk into a loan. Involves the cost of certain interest payments but removes the possibility that currencies may change unfavorably

156
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Interest Risk

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For financial institutions, the risk that changes in economy wide interest rate levels may affect their earnings adversely

157
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How to Manage Interest Risk

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(1) Seeking to reduce the amount of assets with long maturities and increase liabilities with long term maturities
(2) Reduce the amount of fixed-rate long term assets and increase the amount of variable rate long term assets
(3) Use interest rate derivatives

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Credit Risk

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Risk that the parties one has lent to or who owe payments may fail to pay

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How to Mitigate Credit Risk

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(1) Diversifying one’s customers
(2) Selling future streams of payments
(3) Implementing internal control mechanisms to ensure that credit standards are appropriately tigght
(4) Require greater guarantees from borrowers
(5) Using derivatives

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Liquidity Risk

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Risk that while they may be solvent on a long term basis, their short term obligations might outweigh their access to liquid funds, makes them insolvent in the short term and therefore indefinitely

161
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How to Mitigate Liquidity Risk

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(1) Matching more of the maturities of assets and liabilities
(2) Maintain a large cushion of liquid assets
(3) Maintain a variety of long-term lines of credit with a variety of providers

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Market Risk

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Risk that sales of their products or the value of some of their assets may decline

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How to Mitigate Market Risk

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(1) Shift financing sources from debt to equity
(2) Diversify income streams and assets held
(3) Use hedging strategies

164
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Country Risk

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When investing overseas have very little control over political and financial risks associated with investing in a foreign country

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Home Bias

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Traditional tendency of most investors to have a large fraction of their portfolio in assets denominated in their own currency

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Mutual Interdependence

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Outcome of pricing decisions in oligopoly dependent upon reactions of organizations rivals

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