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2024年12月1日23:59
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題目類型:30道客觀選擇題
題目語言:英文
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活動時間:2025年2月7日-10日
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3)東京大學課程學習;4)日本當地文化交流
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Problem 1 Isocost and Isoquant curve
Isocost curve of the producer is similar to budget constraint line of the consumer and isoquant curve of the producer is similar to indifference curve of the consumer, and the intersection of the isocost curve and isoquant curve shows the situation of producer equilibrium.
Based on the above information, answer the questions:
- If the equation of isoquant 16K1/4 L3/4 =2144 depicts the different combinations of inputs K and L that can be used to produce a specific level of output Q=2144, calculate and explain the marginal rate of technical substitution at K=256, L=108. (20 points)
- Analyze the substitutional effect and income effect for Giffen goods if the price of the goods decreases by using the budget constraint line and indifference curve. (10 points)
Key points and scoring guide:
1、If the equation of isoquant 16K1/4 L3/4 =2144 depicts the different combinations of inputs K and L that can be used to produce a specific level of output Q=2144, calculate and explain the marginal rate of technical substitution at K=256, L=108. (20 points)
d/dL (16K1/4 L3/4) =d/dL (2144)
12 K1/4 L-1/4 +4K-3/4 L3/4 *dK /dL =0
dK /dL =-3K/L
at K=256, L=108, MRT= -3(256)/108= -7.11
This means that if L is increasing by 1unit, K will decrease by 7.11 unit in order to remain on the production isoquant where the production level is constant.
2、Analyze the substitutional effect and income effect for Giffen goods if the price of the goods decreases by using the budget constraint line and indifference curve. (10 points)
When the price of Giffen goods decreases, the income effect will offset the substitution effect, and consumers will finally buy less of the products. Graphs needed to be drawn.
Problem 2 Quantitative easing
Since the financial crisis of 2008, the Fed, the Bank of England and other central bank started to lower interest rate by using the open market operation to reach the target interest rate and world economy tends to recover. However, the world-wide dissemination of Covid-19 made the world economy into serious recession and the central bank of world started to use the quantitative easing to stimulate the economy.
Based on the above information, answer the questions:
1、Analysis how the central bank uses the reverse repo and repo to control the money supply? (10 points)
2、Analysis how the central bank uses the traditional open market operation and quantitative easing to stimulate the economy out of the recession? (10 points)
3、If central bank uses open market operation or QE to decrease interest rate, even to negative interest rate, it might lead to capital gains on securities owned by commercial banks, but on the other hand, the profit margin of commercial bank might decrease. Explain whether the capital gains earned will overweight the loss in profit margin by the commercial banks? (10 points)
Key points and scoring guide:
1、Repo: The central bank is using the - repo to lend money to the public temporally and send short-term liquidity to the market to stimulate the economy.
Reverse repo: The central bank is using the reverse repo to decrease the temporary liquidity in the economy.
In China, the repo and reverse repo has the opposite definition to that of the U.S and UK.
2、Analysis how the central bank uses the traditional open market operation and quantitative easing to stimulate the economy out of the recession? (10 points)
The traditional open market operation is that central bank buys or sell the short-term security, normally government bond, to stimulate the economy or control the inflation. When the central bank carries open market buying, it tends to increase the money supply and lower the interest rate without enlarging the balance sheet of central bank. The open market operation of purchase government is likely to be used when the central bank can still buy the short-term security to lower the target interest rate until zero lower bound.
The quantitative easing is an open-market operation in which bonds are purchased by a central bank in order to increase the quantity of excess reserves held by commercial banks and thereby hopefully stimulate the economy by increasing the amount of lending undertaken by commercial banks, when federal fund rates are near zero. Buying a lot of long-term security with the money generated by the central bank through enlarging the balance sheet of central bank is to relieve large amount of liquidity when the economy is in deep recession to give much confidence to economy in deep recession. However, it might lead to higher inflation.
3、If central bank uses open market operation or QE to decrease interest rate, even to negative interest rate, it might lead to capital gains on securities owned by commercial banks, but on the other hand, the profit margin of commercial bank might decrease. Explain whether the capital gains earned will outweigh the loss in profit margin by the commercial banks? (10 points)
When the interest rate goes down, the price of security owned by the central bank is likely to increase, then the commercial bank might get benefit from the capital gain.
However, deposit rates of the banks might be competitive among different banks, so the credit rate declines to great extent than deposit rates, causing the profit margin for commercial bank to shrink.
The decline of today’s value of future profits might outweigh the capital gain because the decline of today’s value of future profit might deteriorate the bank’s overall capital position, its lending abilities might also decrease. In this case, the capital gains earned might be less than the loss in profit margin.
Lower interest rate might have opposite effects on bank capital. There is a positive effect due to the increase in the value of long-term assets. On the other hand, there is a negative effect on profitability. So, the final effect might depend on which effect is stronger than the other.