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5. Graph the following and the effects of the following on national saving, investment, and the real interest rate. Explain your reasoning:
a. Millennials need avocado toast today and society become less future-oriented and thus decide to save less.
b. The government announces a large, one-time bonus payment to veterans returning from a war. The bonus will be financed by additional taxes levied on the general population over the next five years.
c. AOC’s green plan passes and the expected future marginal product of capital that rely of fossil fuels decreases. It also causes an decrease in expected future income
6. in a small open economy, desired national saving, S d = $10 billion + ($100 billion)rw ; desired investment, Id =$15 billion-($100 billion)rw ; output, Y= $50 billion; government purchases, G = $10billion; world real interest rate, rw =0.03
a. Find the economy’s national saving, investment, current account surplus, net exports, desire consumption, and adsorption.
b. Owing to a technological innovation that increases future productivity, the country’s desired investment rises by $2 billon at each level of the world real interest rate. Repeat part (a) with this new information