If inflation is too high in an economy the government will introduce policies to reduce the rate as a high rate can lead to disaster for a country. If the UK has excessively high inflation rates then they will not be able to compete on the exportation of goods against other countries as we will be charging higher prices which can then lead to a contraction on UK output and we become less efficient. It is also disastrous for individuals as there will soon be a wage-inflation battle as wages need to
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Free exchange Savers’ lament The complex effects of low interest rates on consumption and investment Dec 1st 2012 | from The Economist print edition WHEN interest rates hit double digits in the late 1970s‚ house-builders sent planks of wood to the Federal Reserve in protest. With rates stuck near zero‚ the protests now come from the opposite direction. The retired complain of a “war on savings”. The Fed cut rates to current levels at the end of 2008 and has promised to keep them there until
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…..16 5. Determinants of yield curve…………………………………………..…19 6. Analysis………………………………………………………………….31 7. Findings………………………………………………………………….37 8. Bibliography …………………………………………………………….38 9. Appendices ……………………………………………………………...39 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Time series of the yield of the treasury bills…..………………….………...21 Figure 2: Time series of the Spread of the treasury bills………………….….…….....22 Figure 3: Time series of the yield of the treasury bills and WPI index….……………24
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A) households and businesses. B) foreign financial institutions. C) the U.S. Treasury. D) foreign nonfinancial sectors. 4. Those financial markets that facilitate the flow of short-term funds are known as A) money markets. B) capital markets. C) primary markets. D) secondary markets. 5. Funds are provided to the initial issuer
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IRRs‚ and MIRRs for Independent Projects Edelman Engineering is considering including two pieces of equipment‚ a truck and an overhead pulley system‚ in this year’s capital budget. The projects are independent. The cash outlay for the truck is $17‚100 and that for the pulley system is $22‚430. The firm’s cost of capital is 14%. After-tax cash flows‚ including depreciation‚ are as follows: Year Truck Pulley 1 $5‚100 $7‚500 2 $5‚100 $7‚500 3 $5‚100 $7‚500 4 $5‚100 $7‚500 5 $5‚100 $7‚500 Calculate
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No More Pesky Learning Rates Tom Schaul Sixin Zhang Yann LeCun Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University 715 Broadway‚ New York‚ NY 10003‚ USA schaul@cims.nyu.edu zsx@cims.nyu.edu yann@cims.nyu.edu arXiv:1206.1106v2 [stat.ML] 18 Feb 2013 Abstract The performance of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) depends critically on how learning rates are tuned and decreased over time. We propose a method to automatically adjust multiple learning rates so as to minimize the expected
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Opportunity cost Have you ever been in the situation deciding which cloth to buy? Have you ever facing the dilemma of to study or to play? Have you ever consider as a seller and choose to lower the price or raise it? In the field of economics‚ here’s a solution for you. The magic word is “opportunity cost”. Opportunity cost in terms of economy is the highest-value alternative one has to give up to engage in an activity. In other words‚ using the same resources such as money and time‚ the best
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CHAPTER 4 (MANKIW) INFLATION RATES AND INTEREST RATES: THE FISHER EQUATION NOTES by: Chadia Mathurin Economists differentiate between real and nominal interest rates where: real interest: is defined as the increase or decrease in a consumer’s purchasing power experienced as a result of changes in the interest rate. nominal interest: is defined as the interest payed by the bank. Let: i denote the nominal interest rate r the real interest rate pi ‚ the inflation rate The equation for the
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telegbede@unilag.edu.ng Abstract This paper examines causes of unemployment in Nigeria as well as the consequences and implications of graduate unemployment in Nigeria. The paper also provides useful suggestion and recommendations on how to curb graduate in Nigeria. The paper adopts empirical analysis to examine the causes of unemployment in Nigeria. The data used in this study is of two type primary and secondary data. However‚ for the primary data the questionnaire was used to solicit responses from the
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