ECON 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Loanable Funds, Mutual Fund, Demand Curve

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Savings, interest rates and the market for loanable funds. Investment banks: mutual fund firms, commercial banks, borrowers use funds for businesses, savers lend to businesses, borrowing, every dollar borrowed requires a dollar saved. Le(cid:374)ders (cid:272)a(cid:374)t le(cid:374)d (cid:373)o(cid:374)ey they do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e: savings provides funds for lenders to lend, chain of borrowing, savings borrowing investment gdp, the loanable funds market makes this process efficient. Interest rate: the price of loanable funds, savers: the reward for saving, borrowers: the cost of borrowing. Like other prices, it rises and falls: affected by supply and demand, we can examine this market like any other market. Interest rates and the supply of loanable funds: when you save money, you are supplying funds, the price you receive in return is the interest, percentage (rather than dollars, ex: Interest rate is a reward for saving: demand of loanable funds, comes from people wanting to borrow money. Income changes over the course of the typical lifetime.

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