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2. The government plans to finance a one time defence purchase by a manadtory loan from the public. The loan will be returned in the next period. Assume that the real interest rate equals 0. Analyze the effect of the loan on the private consumption in the current period using Modiligiani’s life cycle model, and, seperately, using the Milton Friedman “Permanent Income Hypothesis” (assume the consumption function behaves each time according to a different model).
Loan includes interest rates. Therefore an effect of loan will indirectly mean affect of interest rates on private consumption.
Recent consumption theory is basically based on Modigliani's Life cycle hypothesis. The interpretation of savings as present constraint in consumption in favor of higher consumption in the future suggests regarding this process as part of intertemporal decision making calculation. According to life cycle hypothesis households initially estimate their lifetime income and then choose their consumption as an appropriate share of this estimation for each period.
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