The Table Below Gives Data on Interest Rates and Investment

question 32

Essay

The table below gives data on interest rates and investment demand in a hypothetical economy.Figures are in billions. (a) Use the I_d1 schedule.Assume that the government needs to finance a budget deficit and this public borrowing increases the interest rate from 5% to 6%.How much crowding-out of private investment will occur?
(b) Now assume that the deficit is used to improve the performance of the economy, and that as a consequence the investment-demand schedule changes from I_d1 to I_d2.At the same time, the interest rate rises from 5% to 6% as the government borrows money to finance the deficit.How much crowding-out of private investment will occur in this case?
(c) Graph the two investment-demand schedules on the graph below and show the difference between the two events.Put the interest rate on the vertical axis and the quantity of investment demanded on the horizontal axis.

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Definitions:

Voting Paradox

is a situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (A is preferred to B, B is preferred to C, and C is preferred to A), despite the individual preferences being consistent.

Majority-Rule Voting

A decision-making process where the option that receives more than half of the votes is chosen, commonly used in democratic systems and organizations.

Voting Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (i.e., not transitive), even if the preferences of individual voters are not, leading to a lack of consistent aggregation of individual preferences into a coherent group order.

Impossibility Theorem

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