Question 1

Explain the difference between the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory.

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Question 2

Explain the differences between the loanable funds framework and the liquidity preference framework.

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Question 3

What is the difference between systematic and nonsystematic risk?

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Question 4

How will a decrease in the federal government's budget deficit affect the equilibrium interest rate in the bond market? Explain using the bond demand and supply framework.

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Question 5

Identify and describe three factors that cause the supply curve for bonds to shift.

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Question 6

Explain how the loanable funds framework and the supply and demand for bonds are related.

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Question 7

Explain why the marginal contribution of an asset to the risk of a portfolio does not depend on the risk of the asset in isolation.

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Question 8

If investors perceive greater interest rate risk,what will happen to the equilibrium interest rate in the bond market? Explain using the bond demand and supply framework.

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Question 9

Describe the factors that shift the demand and supply of money in the loanable funds framework.

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Question 10

What is the expected return on a bond if the return is 9% two-thirds of the time and 3% one-third of the time? What is the standard deviation of the returns on this bond? Would you prefer this bond or one with an identical expected return and a standard deviation of 4.5? Why?

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Question 11

A movement along the demand (or supply)curve occurs when the quantity demanded (or supplied)changes at each given price (or interest rate)of the bond in response to a change in some other factor besides the bond's price or interest rate.

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A movement along the demand or supply curve occurs due to a change in the bond's price or interest rate, not because of changes in other factors. Changes in other factors cause the curve to shift, not move along the curve.

Question 12

Identify and explain the four factors that influence asset demand.Which of these factors affect total asset demand and which influence investors to demand one asset over another?

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Question 13

How is the equilibrium interest rate determined in the bond market? Explain why the interest rate will move toward equilibrium if it is temporarily above or below the equilibrium rate.

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Question 14

Explain how the price of gold should be positively related to expected inflation.

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Question 15

Use the bond demand and supply framework to explain the Fisher effect and why it occurs.

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Quiz 4: Why Do Interest Rates Change?