Questions from Macroeconomics


Q: From 2007 to 2009, the long-term real interest rate

From 2007 to 2009, the long-term real interest rate paid by the safest corporations increased from 2.3 percent to 3.8 percent. During that same period, the overnight loans rate fell from 4.5 percent t...

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Q: From 2007 to 2009, the long-term real interest rate

From 2007 to 2009, the long-term real interest rate paid by the safest corporations increased from 2.3 percent to 3.8 percent. During that same period, the overnight loans rate fell from 4.5 percent t...

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Q: After the first two months of the current fiscal year, Canada’s

After the first two months of the current fiscal year, Canada’s deficit sits at $4.4 billion, compared with $7.5 billion in the same period of 2009 when the economy was still in recession. The governm...

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Q: Traders continued to make bets in favour of the yen, sending

Traders continued to make bets in favour of the yen, sending the U.S. dollar to a record low against the Japanese currency. a. How do “bets in favour of the yen” influence the exchange rate? b. How do...

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Q: Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale University, predicted that

Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale University, predicted that there was a very real possibility that the United States would be plunged into a Japan-style slump, with house prices declinin...

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Q: U.S. Federal Reserve’s Plosser Opposes QE3 Federal Reserve Bank

U.S. Federal Reserve’s Plosser Opposes QE3 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia president Charles Plosser does not think that monetary policy can “do much to speed up the slow progress” in the labour...

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Q: Suppose that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand is following the Taylor

Suppose that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand is following the Taylor rule. In 2009, it sets the official cash rate (its equivalent of the overnight loans rate) at 4 percent a year. If the inflation ra...

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Q: Inflation targeting promotes well-anchored inflation expectations, which facilitates more

Inflation targeting promotes well-anchored inflation expectations, which facilitates more effective stabilization of output and employment. Thus inflation targeting can deliver good results with respe...

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Q: Answer the following questions. a. What was the state

Answer the following questions. a. What was the state of the Canadian economy in 2014? b. What was Carolyn Wilkin’s expectation about future real GDP growth and inflation in September 2014? c. How wou...

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Q: What is the Bank of Canada’s monetary policy objective?

What is the Bank of Canada’s monetary policy objective?

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