1 Several bond issues will raise $400 million, with the Bank of Canada picking up at least...
Question:
1 "Several bond issues will raise $400 million, with the Bank of Canada picking up at least $200 million. The Bank of Canada can also be counted on to take down more of the bonds than the planned $200 million it has announced if they seem to be selling badly." What are the implications for the Canadian money supply when the Bank of Canada picks up $200 million of these bonds?
b. Suppose the Canadian economy, on a fixed exchange rate, is at a full employment equilibrium in which the long run real rate of growth is 2%, and the real interest rate is 4%. In the United States, which you can consider to be the "rest of the world," long run real growth is 2%, the nominal interest rate is 8%, and the risk premium (Canada is riskier) is 1%.
i. What is Canada's inflation rate?
ii. What is Canada's nominal interest rate?
iii. Suppose now you are told that the exchange rate is flexible and that the value of the Canadian dollar is falling by 6% per year. What is Canada's inflation rate now?
c. Suppose the sum of consumption, investment, and government spending is $620 billion; the sum of income payments is $500 billion, including transfer payments of $5 billion; we imported $3 billion more than we exported; subsidies are $2 billion; depreciation is $70 billion; and indirect taxes are $62 billion. From this information, what is measured GDP?
Intermediate Accounting Volume 2
ISBN: 9781260881240
8th Edition
Authors: Thomas H. Beechy, Joan E. Conrod, Elizabeth Farrell, Ingrid McLeod-Dick, Kayla Tomulka, Romi-Lee Sevel