Question

Three students have each saved $1,000. Each has an investment opportunity in which he or she can invest up to $2,000. Here are the rates of return on the students’ investment projects:

Student	Return
	(Percent)
Tim	4
Brian	7
Crystal	15

Assume borrowing and lending is prohibited, so each student uses only personal saving to finance his or her own investment project.

Complete the following table with how much each student will have a year later when the project pays its return.

Student	Money a Year Later
	(Dollars)
Tim
Brian
Crystal

Now suppose their school opens up a market for loanable funds in which students can borrow and lend among themselves at an interest rate rr.

If a student’s expected rate of return is less than rr, he or she would choose to lend/borrow .

Suppose the interest rate is 6 percent.

Among these three students, the quantity of loanable funds supplied would be ? , and quantity demanded would be ?

Now suppose the interest rate is 12 percent.

Among these three students, the quantity of loanable funds supplied would be ?,  and quantity demanded would be ?

At an interest rate of % ?, the loanable funds market among these three students would be in equilibrium. At this interest rate, Brian/ Tim and Brian/ Tim / Crystal / Brian and Crystal would want to borrow, and Crystal / Tim and Brian / Brian and Crystal / Brian / Tim would want to lend.

Suppose the interest rate is at the equilibrium rate.

Complete the following table with how much each student will have a year later after the investment projects pay their return and loans have been repaid.

Student	Money a Year Later
	(Dollars)
Tim
Brian
Crystal

True or False: Both borrowers and lenders are made better off.

True

False

Answer 1

If a student’s expected rate of return is less than rr, he or she would choose to lend.

If rr=6%, then QsL=1000( by tim) and QdL=2000( by rest two)

If rr=12% ,then QsL=2000( by tim and Brian) and QdL=1000( by crystal

Fund market will be in Equilibrium at rr=7%

. At this interest rate, Brian and Crystal would want to borrow, and Brian and Tim would want to lend.

answered by: anonymous