Your mother states that lowering interest rates in the recessionary COVID-19 period is good policy because it will guarantee consumers will spend more as it is cheaper to borrow money. Do you agree or disagree with her statement? Provide two reasonings to justify your answer.

Consider the following graph. The IS curve representing the goods market is drawn as the usual downward sloping curve. The ONRRP for May 2023 was 5.05% and the IORB was 5.15%. The effective federal funds rate (EFFR) was 5.08%. Long-term trend output is given by the vertical line at Y*. 5.40 5.30 5.15 5.05 Y* Y-C(Y-TW)+1(Y)+G Y 3. If the current level of the EFFR in the band between IORB and ONRRP causes housing prices to fall, could output fall below trend output? Explain. Illustrate in the graph above.

Consider a small macroeconomy located near the South Pacific Ocean where the current interest rate is 15 percent and the potential level of real GDP equal to $2.7 billion. Consumers spending behavior is described by the equation: C = 175 + 0.8DI, while firm's investment spending behavior is described by the equation: I = 60 + 0.25Y-750r. Trade is allowed and currently, total exports is fixed at $150 million while total imports is described by the equation: IM = 320 +0.1Y. The government's spending is fixed at $840 million and net taxes is described by the equation: T=50 + 0.25Y. (Question 1 of 6) What is the current equilibrium level of GDP (in millions of dollars)? (report your answer at 3 decimal places)

Question 2: Consider a model exactly like that in Question 1 - where the person receives income $48,326 - in period 1 and additional income $44,928 in period 2 except let's now suppose that the person faces a liquidity constraint. Specifically, she can still save at an interest rate of 4%, but if she borrows, then she must pay an interest rate of 8%. (a) If the person wants to save, the relevant interest rate is 4%. For what values of 8 is it optimal to save? [Hint: You already know the answer from Question 1.] (b) If the person wants to borrow, the relevant interest rate is 8%. (i) Suppose the interest rate is 8%, and solve for the optimal c₁ and c₂ as a function of 8. (ii) If the interest rate is 8%, for what values of 8 is it optimal to borrow? [Note: Please report your answer to 5 decimal points.] (c) Given the liquidity constraint, for what values of 8 is it optimal to neither borrow nor save? [Hint: Two conditions must hold: (i) 8 must be such that the person does NOT want to…