Lecture Notes on Mishkin Chapter 5 (pp. 91-108 only)
"The Behavior of Interest Rates"
Econ 353: Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions
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Notes on Mishkin Chapter 5 (pp. 91-108 Only)
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For discussion and illustrations of the following basic concepts and key issues, see the
PPT Slides for Mishkin Chapter 5 (785K)
Basic Concepts and Key Issues for Mishkin Chapter 5 (pp. 91-108 only)
- Basic Concepts:
- The bond demand curve
- The bond supply curve
- Bond market equilibrium
- Excess supply for bonds
- Excess demand for bonds
- Key Issues:
- Factors causing movements along the bond demand curve
- Factors causing the bond demand curve to shift
- Factors causing movements along the bond supply curve
- Factors causing the bond supply curve to shift
- Predicted movements in the price of bonds in response to an
excess demand or supply of bonds
- Predicted effects on bond market equilibrium of changes
in various factors such as wealth, expected interest rates,
expected inflation, and the government deficit
- In what sense is the demand and supply analysis in Mishkin (Chapter 5)
partial equilibrium in nature? In particular, why must his caution
"all other economic variables are held constant" given at the
beginning of Chapter 5 always be kept in mind when considering
the practical application of the predictions he obtains from his
demand and supply analysis of the bond market?
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