Inflation and Interest Rates The Fisher Effect • In a 1896 classic article, economist Irving Fisher argued that expected nominal interest rate = expected real rate + inflation premium [r]
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Inflation & Deflation, Yield
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Learning Objectives
• To learn what inflation is and how it can impact interest rates
and the prices of financial assets
• To understand the greater concern today over deflation and how it may affect the economy and financial system
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Learning Objectives
• To discover how yield curves can be a useful tool for those
interested in investing their money and in tracking the health of the economy
• To look at the concept of duration and see how it can be used to assist in making investment choices and in protecting
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Introduction
• Why are the interest rates on U.S. Treasury bills, Treasury
bonds, municipal bonds, corporate bonds, personal loans, etc. so different from one another?
• Understanding the factors that cause interest rates to differ is
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Inflation and Interest Rates
• Inflation refers to the rise in the average level of prices for all
goods and services
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InflationandInterestRates
ã In recent years, the U.S. inflation and interest rates appear to
be fairly strongly correlated
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NominalandRealInterestRates
ã Ingeneral,lenderswillattempttochargenominalratesof
interestthatgivethemtheirdesiredrealratesofreturnontheir loanable funds based upon their expectations regarding
inflation
nominal rate = published or quoted rate
real rate = rate measured in terms of the actual
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Inflation and Interest Rates
Alternative Views
• While the Fisher effect is among the most popular