Statement 1: The actual relationship between the risk-free rate
of return ( r* ) and the expected future inflation rate or
inflation premium (IP) is actually multiplicative—that is, [(1 +
rRF ) x (1 + IP)] – 1—but it is often simplified to reflect an
additive relationship. Statement 2: All else being equal, the more
highly that savers and investors prefer immediate spending to
deferred consumption, the lower the compensation that savers and
investor will require to induce them to...