Tag: Economics

• There is an increase in the C/CD ratio because people start to hold more currency.Will this lead to a change in GDP?Explain and diagrammatically represent your answer.

• The Fed wants to lower the federal funds rate, which is currently 3 percent, to somewhere in the range of 2.0 – 2.5 percent.Explain how the Fed goes about doing this today using the IOR and ON-RRP rates.In the process of explaining your answer, make sure to explain what banks and nonbank financial institutions will do in response to whatever it is that you have the Fed do.

• “Banks will always prefer a low to high capital-to-asset ratio.”Do you agree or disagree with this statement.Explain your answer.A numerical example will help in answering this question.

• The actual inflation rate in the country has recently risen.Two questions: (a) How would you go about determining whether the (market’s) expected inflation rate has also risen?(b) If you determine that the expected inflation rate has risen, then what will this do to the price of bonds and to interest rate?Explain and diagrammatically represent your answer.

• The yield curve is currently upward sloping.Does it follow that the market currently believes that future short-term interest rates will be rising?Explain your answer.Both a numerical example and a graph will help in answering this question.
• “The bond market and the housing market are similar in some respects.Specifically, in equilibrium it could very well be said that no house and no bond is any better than any other house and any other bond once all factors have been taken into consideration.”Do you agree with this statement?Explain and diagrammatically (especially with respect to the bond market) represent your answer.

• There is an increase in the C/CD ratio because people start to hold more currency.Will this lead to a change in GDP?Explain and diagrammatically represent your answer.
• The Fed wants to lower the federal funds rate, which is currently 3 percent, to somewhere in the range of 2.0 – 2.5 percent.Explain how the Fed goes about doing this today using the IOR and ON-RRP rates.In the process of explaining your answer, make sure to explain what banks and nonbank financial institutions will do in response to whatever it is that you have the Fed do.

1.Describe Monetary and Fiscal Policies. What are advantages and disadvantages of each.

2.What are Lorenz curves? What is the Gini Coefficient? Graph a sample Lorenz curve, and use it to explain how the Gini coefficient is determined.

1. Read the first 13 pages of the attached paper which discusses the effect of government intervention on recessions.

2. Locate two JOURNAL articles which discuss this topic further. You need to focus on the Abstract, Introduction, Results, and Conclusion. For our purposes, you are not expected to fully understand the Data and Methodology.

3. Summarize these journal articles. Please use your own words. No copy-and-paste. Cite your sourceS

Link: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/78053/1/MPRA_paper_78053.pdf

I’m working on a international economics writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Discuss the causes of the recent currency crisis in Turkey. What are the implications for the Turkish economy and the global economy? What should be the role of the Turkish Central Bank for stable currency?

Reflection paper 

The guest speaker is Dr. Sukhdave Singh, the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara).

He talked about 3 topics: 

Sharp Skills:

1)Managing the exchange rate after the Asian Financial Crisis

2)Conducting monetary policy Emerging Market Economies

Smart Skills:

3)Leadership

In keeping with the 2-page length of the reflection paper, please write one page on one of the Sharp Skills topics and one page on the Smart Skills topic. 

For this Assignment there is no assign reading but I will provide some links that the speaker talked about same topics in different platforms but the ideas are same, so in the citation will not cite the links that I am giving you because we will assume that he said it in the session + we can cite any additional information/data needed to write up the reflection. 

I attached some slides he shared with us it could help you in the writing + below you will find some links related to the topics above it could help too. 

here is a link about short articles he wrote subject some can be related Sukudhew (Sukhdave) Singh | LinkedIn and you may look online about more details 

for the sharp skill please chose “1)Managing the exchange rate after the Asian Financial Crisis” and you can find a lot of what he talked about in link below and you can write it as he said it in the session.

The Ringgit Exchange Rate in A Chart (linkedin.com)

for the Smart Skills “Leadership” part he I could not find any helpful source but mainly he was talking about the manner that leaders of central banks should have and no race or religion or background should effect the relationships between the leader and his employees …. ect