Actual inflation=1.5. Actual real interest paid=6-1.5=4.5%
Expected inflation rate=1%. Expected real interest rate=5
transferred wealth from you to borrower and caused your after tax real interest rate to be 0.5% points lower than that you had expected.
ans is B
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9. Suppose that a borrower and a lender agree on the nominal interest rate to be paid on a loan. Then infla- tion turns out to be higher than they both expected. a. Is the real interest rate on this loan higher or lower than expected? b. Does the lender gain or lose from this unexpectedly high inflation? Does the borrower c. Inflation during the 1970s was much higher than most people had expected when the decade began. How did...
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Compared with higher inflation rates, a lower inflation rate
will (Increase or Decrease?) the after-tax real
interest rate when the government taxes nominal interest income.
This tends to (Encourage or Discourage?) saving,
thereby (Increasing or Decreasing) the quantity of
investment in the economy and (Increasing or Decreasing) the
economy's long-run growth rate.
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