In: Economics
Suppose home owners owe $10 trillion in mortgage loans.
Instructions: Enter your responses as a whole number. In part b, do not include a negative sign (-) with your answer.
a. If the mortgage interest rate is 5 percent, approximately how much are home owners paying in annual mortgage interest?
$ billion
b. If the interest rate drops to 2 percent, by how much will annual interest payments decline?
$ billion
c. How will this change in the interest rate impact aggregate demand?
Aggregate demand will (Click
to select) not
change increase decrease .
Solution:-
(a) Calculate the amount that home owners pay in annual mortgage interest -
Annual mortgage interest amount = 5% * 10 trillion
= 0.05 * 7 trillion
= 500 billion
(b) Calculate the amount that home owners pay in annual mortgage interest -
Annual mortgage interest amount declines = 2% * 10 trillion
= 0.03 * 7 trillion
= $200 billion
c) Aggregate demand will increase