Friday, April 8, 2016

Unit 4: Loanable Funds, The Time Value of Money

Loanable Funds

Essential Question: What factor has the biggest impact on the money supply, lending and investment? 
      - Interest Rates (the price of borrowing & using money) 

Nominal v. Real Interest Rates

Nominal:
  • Real interest rates + expected inflation
  • % increase in money that the borrower pays including inflation
Real:
  • Nominal interest rate - expected inflation
  • % increase in purchasing power that the barrow pays (adjusted)

What are loanable funds?

-funds available for borrowing or lending

Demand for Loanable Funds
  • the quantity of credit wanted and needed at every real interest rate by borrows in an economy
  • Loanable Funds demand consists of any and all activities of borrowers who were credit, including: loan application and financial asses sales.








Demand for loanable funds? 

  • the quantity of credit wanted and needed at every real interest rate by borrowers in an economy
  • Loanable funds demand - consists of any and all activities of borrowers who desire credit, including: loan application and financial asset sales.

Time Value of Money

Is a dollar today worth more than a dollar tomorrow? YES 

Why? 
- inflation and opportunity cost
- this is the reason for charging and paying interest

Let V = future value of $.
       P = present value of $.
       r = real interest rate ( nominal rate - inflation expressed as a decimal)
       n = years 
       k = # of times interest is credited per year




Demand Money

- has an inverse relationship between nominal interest rates and the quantity of money demanded

What happens to quantity demanded money when interest rates increases? 
- quantity demanded falls because individuals would prefer to have interest earning assets instead of borrowed liabilities
What happens to quantity demand when interest rate decreases? 
- quantity demanded increases.
- There is no incentive to convert cash into interest earning asset.
What happens if price level increase? 
- then money demand shift to the right
   3 Causes:
- change in price level
- change in income
- changes in taxation that affects investment


Increasing Money Supply

If the FED increases the money supply, a temporary surplus of money will occur at 5% interest.
- the surplus will cause interest rate to fall 2%

How does this affect AD?
Increase MS > Decrease interest rate > increase investment > Increase in AD
How do we decrease Money supply?
Decrease MS > Increase interest rate > decrease investment > decrease AD

Fiscal Sector

  • Financial assets vs. Financial liability
     - Assets: stocks or bonds that provide expected future benefit.
                  : benefits the owner only if the ensure of the asset need certain obligation
     - Liability: it is incurred by the ensure of a financial asset to stand by the issue asset
                     : what you owe
  • Interest Rates: it is the price paid used for financial assets
  • stock v. bonds
      - stocks: financial asset that convey ownership in cooperation
    - bonds: promise to pay a certain amount of money
    and interest in the future

What do Banks do?

A bank is financial intermediary 
  • uses liquid assets (i.e bond deposits) to finance the investment of borrowers 
  • Process is known as fractional reserve banking 
  • system in which depository institution liquid assets less than the amount of deposit
  • can take the form of:
    1. currency in bank vaults
    2. bank reserves - deposits held at the Federal Reserve 
Basic Accounting Review
  • T-account (balance sheet)
    - statements of assets and liabilities
  • Assets (amount owned)
    - items to legal to which a bank holds legal claim
    - the uses of funds by financial intermediates
  • Liabilities (amount owned )
    - legal claim against a bank

Federal Reserve Bank 

Function of FED: 
- it issues paper money 
it sets reserve requirement and it hold reserve of the bank 
- lend money to bank and change their interest
-check clearing service for bank
-acts as a personal bank for government
- supervises member banks
- control money supply 

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