Sunday, May 17, 2015

Unit 5 - Phillips Curve

Definition:
  • Inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment
  • Only occur in the short run

+Long Run Phillips Curve
  • Occurs at natural rate of unemployment
  • No trade off between unemployment and inflation
  • It only shifts if the LRAS curve shifts
  • Major LRPC assumption is that more worker benefit create higher natural rate and fewer benefit create lower natural rate.
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+Short Run Phillips Curve
  • Has relevant to Okun Law
  • Inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment
  • Since wages are sticky, inflation changes move the point on SRPC
  • If inflation persist, and the expected rate of inflation increases, the entire SRPC moves upward, create stagflation. 
  • If inflation expectation drop due to new technology, SRPC will move downward.
 

Stagflation
High unemployment and high inflation simultaneously

Misery Index
Combination of inflation and unemployment in given year
Single digit misery is good 

Natural Rate of Unemployment
Frictional, Structural and seasonal unemployments



Sunday, March 29, 2015

Videos

Video 1:

The video introduces the types of money. We have 3 types of moneys, commodity, representative and fiat money. Commodity money is the first type of money being used, it can be think of as a fair trade, depend on how both parties set the value, say a cow for a bag of rice, etc. Representative money is the type of currency where we use a metal as a value to trade other goods, for example: gold, silver, bronze. This type of money is not used anymore because of the flexibility in prices of metal, and as the price of metal changes, it will affect the currency of that country. Fiat money is what most countries use today, it is money and has value because the government say so, it is stable since the govt has control over it.

Video 2:

The video explains the supply and demand of money on the Money Market graph. The concept is the same as supply and demand concept, the demand for money will always downward sloping and is affected by the interest rate. Supply for money in the other hand is vertical because it doesn't vary based on the interest rates because it's set and fixed by the Fed. During a recession, the Fed increase the supply of money to remain the interest rate and increase the demand for money.

Video 3:

The video explains the tools of monetary policies include tight and easy money. Expansionary has easy money, the Reserve Requirement and Discount Rate decreases, while actually they both increase. To expand the money supply the FED buys bonds. When trying to contract the money supply the FED will sell bonds

Video 4:

The video  explains the loanable fund market on graph, it is the money available in banking system for people to borrow. The demand for loanable fund is downward sloping as all the supply demand concepts. The supply for loanable funds depend on the savings, the more money saved, the more money bank have to make loans. It's a leakage in income but it is positive for supply of loanable funds when people tend to save more.

Video 5:

The video discussed about the money creating process. Banks make money by loaning money out. When a person deposit a check in to a bank, the bank will keep a certain amount as the reserve the will loan the excess reserves out. The total amount of loan created is through a multiplying expansion. Reserve Ratio is the percentage of banks total requirements. The process of the multiple deposits is to add up all the potential loans.

Video 6:

The video shows the connection between the loanable fund market, money market and the AD-AS graph together. In the money market graph, when the demand for money increase (shift to right), the interest rate increase. When that happens, in the loanable fund, the available money is reduced. That makes the AD increases in AD-AS increase, hence increase the nation's GDP. The fisher effect say the increase in interest rate will increase the inflation. it is a direct relationship.

Unit 4 - Changes in the Supply of Loanble Funds

The supply of borrowing of loan-able funds = savings (low demand for bonds)
->More savings= more supply of loan-able funds (->)
->Less savings = less supply of loan-able funds (->)
EX
-Government budget surplus = more savings= more supply Loan-able funds .: Slf -> .: v
-Decrease in consumers MPS = less saving = less supply of loan-able funds .: Slf <- .:r ^


Final Thoughts on Loan-able Funds
 
-Loanable funds market determines the real interest rate
-When government does fiscal policy it will affect the loan-able funds market
-Changes in the real interest rate (r%) will affect Gross Private investment.
Federal Fund Rate- the interest rate that commercial bank, change other commercial banks for over night
-Discount rate- loans form FED 
-Sister banks- federal fund rate
Prime Rate- the interest rate that is given to a banks most credit worthy consumers
o-4%

Unit 4 - Loanable Fund Market

Loan-able Funds Market

-The Market where savers and borrowers exchange funds (Qlf) at the real rate of interest (r%)
-The demand for loadable funds, or borrowing comes from households, firms, gov't and foreign sector. 
-The demand for loan-able funds is in a fact the supply of bands.
-The supply of loan-able funds of saving comes from households, firms government and the foreign sector. 
-The supply of loan-able funds is also the demand for bonds.
 
Changes in the Demand for Loan-able Funds
-Demand for loan-able funds = borrowing (i.e supplying bonds)
->More borrowing = demand for loan-able funds (->)
->Less borrowing  = less demand for loan-able funds (<-) 


Examples
- Government deficit spending = more borrowing = more demand for loan-able finds .: Dlf -> .: r % ^
- Less investment demand =less borrowing = less demand for loan-able funds.