曼昆经济学原理下宏观部分北大作业作业2A240309

1、经济学原理II（2009年春季学期）作业2第一部分：教材习题第26章，问题与应用，4, 5，6，8，9，11第27章，问题与应用，1，2，7，8第28章，问题与应用，1，5，6, 8，9Answers for Chapter 264.Companies encourage their employees to hold stock in the company because it gives the employees the incentive to care about the firms profits, not just their own salary. Then, if empl

2、oyees see waste or see areas in which the firm can improve, theyll take actions that benefit the company because they know the value of their stock will rise as a result. And it also gives employees an additional incentive to work hard, knowing that if the firm does well, they will profit.But from a

3、n employees point of view, owning stock in the company for which she or he works can be risky. The employees wages or salary are already tied to how well the firm performs. If the firm has trouble, the employee could be laid off or have her or his salary reduced. If the employee owns stock in the fi

4、rm, then theres a double whammy¾the employee is unemployed or gets a lower salary and the value of the stock falls as well. So owning stock in your own company is a very risky proposition. Most employees would be better off diversifying¾owning stock or bonds in other companies¾so thei

5、r fortunes wouldnt depend so much on the firm for which they work. 5.To a macroeconomist, saving occurs when a persons income exceeds her consumption, while investment occurs when a person or firm purchases new capital, such as a house or business equipment.a.When your family takes out a mortgage an

6、d buys a new house, thats investment, because its a purchase of new capital.b.When you use your $200 paycheck to buy stock in AT&T, thats saving, because your income of $200 isnt being spent on consumption goods.c.When your roommate earns $100 and deposits it in her account at a bank, thats savi

7、ng, because the money isnt spent on consumption goods.d.When you borrow $1,000 from a bank to buy a car to use in your pizza-delivery business, thats investment, because the car is a capital good. 6.Were given the numbers Y = 8, T = 1.5, Sprivate = 0.5 = Y - T - C, Spublic = 0.2 = T - G.Since Spriva

8、te = Y - T - C, then rearranging gives C = Y - T - Sprivate = 8 - 1.5 - 0.5 = 6. Since Spublic = T - G, then rearranging gives G = T - Spublic = 1.5 - 0.2 = 1.3.Since S = national saving = Sprivate + Spublic = 0.5 + 0.2 = 0.7.Finally, since I = investment = S, I = 0.7. 8.a.Figure 25-2 illustrates th

9、e effect of the $20 billion increase in government borrowing. Initially, the supply of loanable funds is curve S1, the equilibrium real interest rate is i1, and the quantity of loanable funds is L1. The increase in government borrowing by $20 billion reduces the supply of loanable funds at each inte

10、rest rate by $20 billion, so the new supply curve, S2, is shown by a shift to the left of S1 by exactly $20 billion. As a result of the shift, the new equilibrium real interest rate is i2. The interest rate has increased as a result of the increase in government borrowing.b.Since the interest rate h

11、as increased, investment and national saving decline and private saving increases. The increase in government borrowing reduces public saving. From the figure you can see that total loanable funds (and thus both investment and national saving) decline by less than $20 billion, while public saving de

12、clines by $20 billion and private saving rises by less than $20 billion. Figure 25-2c.The more elastic is the supply of loanable funds, the flatter the supply curve would be, so the interest rate would rise by less and thus national saving would fall by less, as Figure 25-3 shows.Figure 25-3d.The mo

13、re elastic the demand for loanable funds, the flatter the demand curve would be, so the interest rate would rise by less and thus national saving would fall by more, as Figure 25-4 shows.e.If households believe that greater government borrowing today implies higher taxes to pay off the government de

14、bt in the future, then people will save more so they can pay the higher future taxes, so private saving will increase, as will the supply of loanable funds. This will offset the reduction in public saving, thus reducing the amount by which the equilibrium quantity of investment and national saving d

15、ecline, and reducing the amount that the interest rate rises.Figure 25-4If the rise in private saving was exactly equal to the increase in government borrowing, there would be no shift in the national saving curve, so investment, national saving, and the interest rate would all be unchanged. This is

16、 the case of Ricardian equivalence.9.Since new computer technology enables firms to reduce inventory investment, the demand curve for loanable funds shifts to the left, as shown in Figure 25-5. As a result, the equilibrium quantity of loanable funds declines, as does the interest rate. The decline i

17、n the interest rate then increases investment in factories and equipment, but overall investment still declines. Figure 25-511.a.Investment can be increased by reducing taxes on private saving or by reducing the government budget deficit. But reducing taxes on private saving has the effect of increa

18、sing the government budget deficit, unless some other taxes are increased or government spending is reduced. So it is difficult to engage in both policies at the same time.b. To know which of these policies would be a more effective way to raise investment, you'd need to know: (1) what the elast

19、icity of private saving is with respect to the after-tax real interest rate, since that would determine how much private saving would increase if you reduced taxes on saving; (2) how private saving responds to changes in the government budget deficit, since, for example, if Ricardian equivalence hol

20、ds, the decline in the government budget deficit would be matched by an equal decline in private saving, so national saving wouldn't increase at all; and (3) how elastic investment is with respect to the interest rate, since if investment is quite inelastic, neither policy will have much of an i

21、mpact on investment.Answers for chapter 271.The future value of $24 invested for 400 years at an interest rate of 7 percent is (1.07)400 ´ $24 = $13,600,000,000,000 = $13.6 trillion.2.a.The present value of $15 million to be received in four years at an interest rate of 11 percent is $15 millio

22、n/(1.11)4 = $9.88 million. Since the present value of the payoff is less than the cost, the project should not be undertaken.The present value of $15 million to be received in four years at an interest rate of 10 percent is $15 million/(1.10)4 = $10.25 million. Since the present value of the payoff

23、is greater than the cost, the project should be undertaken.The present value of $15 million to be received in four years at an interest rate of 9 percent is $15 million/(1.09)4 = $10.63 million. Since the present value of the payoff is greater than the cost, the project should be undertaken.The pres

24、ent value of $15 million to be received in four years at an interest rate of 8 percent is $15 million/(1.08)4 = $11.03 million. Since the present value of the payoff is greater than the cost, the project should be undertaken.b.The exact cutoff for the interest rate between profitability and nonprofi

25、tability is the interest rate that will equate the present value of receiving $15 million in four years with the current cost of the project ($10 million):$10 =15/(1 + x)410(1 + x)4 = 15(1 + x)4 = 1.51 + x = (1.5)0.251 + x = 1.1067x = 0.1067Therefore, an interest rate of 10.67 percent would be the c

26、utoff between profitability and nonprofitability.7.Shareholders will likely demand a higher return due to the stocks idiosyncratic risk. Idiosyncratic risk is risk that affects only that particular stock. All stocks in the economy are subject to aggregate risk.8.a.If a roommate is buying stocks in c

27、ompanies that everyone believes will experience big profits in the future, the price-earnings ratio is likely to be high. The price is high because it reflects everyones expectations about the firms future earnings. The largest disadvantage in buying these stocks is that they are currently overvalue

28、d and may not pay off in the future.b.Firms with low price-earnings ratios will likely have lower future earnings. The reason why these stocks are cheap is that everyone has lower expectations about the future profitability of these firms. The largest disadvantage to buying this stock is that the ma

29、rket may be correct and the firm's stock may provide a low return.Answers for chapter 281, 我没有做答案。抱歉！你们帮我补上。5.The fact that employment has increased 1.5 million while unemployment has declined 0.6 million is consistent with growth in the labor force of 1.6 million workers. The labor force consta

30、ntly increases as the population grows and as labor-force participation increases, so the increase in the number of people employed may always exceed the reduction in the number unemployed.6.a.A construction worker who is laid off because of bad weather is likely to experience short-term unemploymen

31、t, since the worker will be back to work as soon as the weather clears up.b.A manufacturing worker who loses her job at a plant in an isolated area is likely to experience long-term unemployment, since there are probably few other employment opportunities in the area. She may need to move somewhere

32、else to find a suitable job, which means she'll be out of work for some time.c.A worker in the stagecoach industry who was laid off because of the growth of railroads is likely to be unemployed for a long time. The worker will have a lot of trouble finding another job when his entire industry is

33、 shrinking. He'll probably need to gain additional training or skills to get a job in a different industry.d.A short-order cook who loses his job when a new restaurant opens is likely to find another job fairly quickly, perhaps even at the new restaurant, so will probably have only a short spell

34、 of unemployment.e.An expert welder with little education who loses her job when the company installs automatic welding machinery is likely to be without a job for a long time, since she lacks the technological skills to keep up with the latest equipment. To remain in the welding industry, she may n

35、eed to retool by going back to school and learning the newest techniques. 8.a.Figure 26-3 illustrates the effect of a union being established in one labor market. When one labor market is unionized, shown in the figure on the left, the wage rises from w1U to w2U and the quantity of labor demanded de

36、clines from U1 to U2D. Since the wage is higher, the supply of labor increases to U2S, so there are U2S - U2D unemployed workers in the unionized sector. The quantity of labor employed in this market is inefficient, since more workers would like to have jobs at the existing wage.b.When those workers

37、 who become unemployed in the union sector seek employment in the nonunionized market, shown in the figure on the right, the supply of labor shifts to the right from S1 to S2. The result is a decline in the wage in the nonunionized sector from w1N to w2N and an increase in employment in the nonunion

38、ized sector from N1 to N2. Figure 26-39.a.When the Japanese developed a strong auto industry, U.S. auto demand became more elastic as a result of increased competition. With more elastic demand for autos, the elasticity of demand for American autoworkers increased.b.Since the rise in auto imports made the demand for autoworkers more elastic, to maintain a higher-than-competitive wage rate requires a greater reduction in the quantity of labor demanded. So the union had to choose between allowing the union wage to decline or facing the loss of many jobs.c.Given the tradeoff faced by the