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88Saving, Investment, and the Financial
System
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What’s in This Chapter?
• Why should we care about a country’s levels of saving and investment?
• What is a nation’s financial system? What does it do and why does it matter?
• Why are the levels of saving and investment high at some times (or, for some countries) and low at other times (or, for other countries)?
• What can the government do to change a nation’s saving and investment levels?
• What should the government do in this regard?
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Importance of Saving and Investment
• Our standard of living depends on our productivity
• Our productivity depends on the availability of physical capital, human capital, natural resources and technology
• Improvements in our standard of living (or, simply, economic growth) requires increases in the availability of the above resources
• And that in turn requires saving and investment
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The Financial System
• The financial systemfinancial system consists of the group of institutions in the economy that help to match one person’s saving with another person’s investment.
• It moves the economy’s scarce resources from savers to investors (or, from lenders to borrowers).
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Financial Institutions In The U.S. Economy
• The financial system is made up of financial institutions that coordinate the actions of savers and borrowers.
• Financial institutions can be grouped into two categories: • financial markets and • financial intermediaries.
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Financial Institutions In The U.S. Economy
• Financial markets are the institutions through which savers can directly provide funds to borrowers.
• Financial intermediaries are financial institutions through which savers can indirectly provide funds to borrowers.
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Financial Institutions In The U.S. Economy
• Financial Markets• Stock Market• Bond Market
• Financial Intermediaries• Banks• Mutual Funds
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Financial Markets
• The Bond Market• A bond is a certificate of indebtedness that
specifies obligations of the borrower to the holder of the bond.
• Characteristics of a Bond• Term: The length of time until the bond matures.• Credit Risk: The probability that the borrower will fail to
pay some of the interest or principal.• Tax Treatment: The way in which the tax laws treat the
interest on the bond.• Municipal bonds are federal tax exempt.
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Financial Markets
• The Stock Market• Stock represents a claim to partial ownership in a
firm and is therefore, a claim to the profits that the firm makes.
• The sale of stock to raise money is called equity financing.
• Compared to bonds, stocks offer both higher risk and potentially higher returns.
• The most important stock exchanges in the United States are the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and NASDAQ.
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Financial Markets
• The Stock Market• Most newspaper stock tables provide the following
information:• Price (of a share)• Volume (number of shares sold)• Dividend (profits paid to stockholders)• Price-earnings ratio
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Financial Intermediaries
• Financial intermediaries are financial institutions through which savers can indirectly provide funds to borrowers.
• Examples:• Banks• Mutual funds• Other
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Financial Intermediaries
• Banks• take deposits from people who want to save and
use the deposits to make loans to people who want to borrow.
• pay depositors interest on their deposits and charge borrowers slightly higher interest on their loans.
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Financial Intermediaries
• Banks• Banks help create a money by allowing people to
write checks against their deposits.• Money is anything that people can easily use to engage
in transactions.• This facilitates the purchases of goods and services.
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Financial Intermediaries
• Mutual Funds• A mutual fund is an institution that sells shares to
the public and uses the proceeds to buy a portfolio, of various types of stocks, bonds, or both.
• Mutual funds allow people with small amounts of money to easily diversify.
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Financial Intermediaries
• Other Financial Institutions • Credit unions• Pension funds• Insurance companies• Loan sharks
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Saving And Investment In The National Income Accounts
• Recall that GDP is both total income in an economy and total expenditure on the economy’s output of goods and services:
Y = C + I + G + NXY = C + I + G + NX
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Some Important Identities
• Assume a closed economyclosed economy – one that does not engage in international trade.
• In such an economy, NX = 0. Therefore, Y = C + I Y = C + I + G + NX+ G + NX becomes becomes
Y = C + I + GY = C + I + G• Now, subtract C and G from both sides of the
equation: Y – C – G = IY – C – G = I
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Saving = Investment
Y – C – G = I
National Saving (S) is what’s left of total income (Y) after household consumption (C) and government purchases (G):
S = Y – C – G
S = I
The saving of households ends up loaned to businesses, who then spend the borrowed money
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National Saving = Private Saving + Public Saving
S = Y – C – G S = Y – C – G – T + T S = Y – T – C + T – G
The government’s net tax revenues are denoted T. T = tax revenues – transfer paymentsY – T is total after-tax income or disposable income
Private Saving:Sp = Y – T – C
Public Saving:Sg = T – G
National Saving = Private Saving + Public SavingS = Sp + Sg
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S = Sp + Sg
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The Meaning of Saving and Investment
• Budget Surplus and Budget Deficit• If T > G, the government runs a budget surplus
because it receives more money than it spends.• T – G represents public saving.
• If G > T, the government runs a budget deficit because it spends more money than it receives in tax revenue.
• Fun fact: In the 2010 fiscal year, the US federal government ran a budget deficit of $1.3 trillion
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THE MARKET FOR LOANABLE FUNDS
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The Market For Loanable Funds
• For the economy as a whole, saving must be equal to investment:
S = IS = I• Financial markets coordinate the economy’s
saving and investment in the market for market for loanable funds.loanable funds.
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The Market For Loanable Funds
• The market for loanable funds is the market in which • The supply of loans come from households with
savings• The demand for loans come from businesses (and
households) that wish to spend for investment
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Supply and Demand for Loanable Funds
• Financial markets work much like other markets in the economy.
• The equilibrium of the supply and demand for loanable funds determines the real interest rate.
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Supply and Demand for Loanable Funds
• The interest rate is the price of a loan.• It represents the amount that borrowers pay for
loans and the amount that lenders receive on their saving.
• More precisely, the price of a loan is the real interest rate.• The real interest rate is the inflation-adjusted
interest rate• real interest rate = nominal interest rate – inflation
rate• See the chapter “Measuring the Cost of Living” for a
reminder
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Figure 1 The Market for Loanable Funds
Loanable Funds(in billions of dollars)
0
Real Interest Rate
Supply
Demand
5%
$1,200
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Figure 1 The Market for Loanable Funds
Loanable Funds(in billions of dollars)
0
Real Interest Rate
Supply
Demand
5%
$1,200
How can government policies affect this market?
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Supply and Demand for Loanable Funds
• Government Policies can affect Saving and Investment• Taxes can affect saving• Taxes can affect investment• Government budgets can affect saving
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Policy 1: Saving Incentives
• Taxes on interest income substantially reduce the future payoff from current saving and, as a result, reduce the incentive to save.
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Policy 1: Saving Incentives
• An income tax cut increases the incentive for households to save, at any given interest rate. • The supply curve of loanable funds shifts to the
right.• The equilibrium interest rate decreases.• The quantity of saving and investment increases.
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Figure 2 An Increase in the Supply of Loanable Funds
Loanable Funds(in billions of dollars)
0
InterestRate
Supply, S1 S2
2. . . . whichreduces theequilibriuminterest rate . . .
3. . . . and raises the equilibriumquantity of loanable funds.
Demand
1. Tax incentives forsaving increase thesupply of loanablefunds . . .
5%
$1,200
4%
$1,600
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Policy 2: Investment Incentives
• An investment tax credit increases the incentive to borrow.• Shifts the demand curve for loanable funds to the
right.• The interest rate increases and saving and
investment increase as well.
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Figure 3 An Increase in the Demand for Loanable Funds
Loanable Funds(in billions of dollars)
0
InterestRate
1. An investmenttax creditincreases thedemand for loanable funds . . .
2. . . . whichraises theequilibriuminterest rate . . .
3. . . . and raises the equilibriumquantity of loanable funds.
Supply
Demand, D1
D2
5%
$1,200
6%
$1,400
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Policy 3: Government Budget Deficits and Surpluses
• When the government spends more than it receives in tax revenues, T – G < 0.• the gap is called the budget deficit.• The government must borrow money in the market
for loanable funds to fill the gap• The accumulation of past budget deficits is
called the government debt.
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Policy 3: Government Budget Deficits and Surpluses
• Government borrowing to finance its budget deficit reduces the supply of loanable funds available to finance investment by households and firms (the private sector).
• This fall in investment is referred to as crowding out.• The deficit borrowing crowds out private borrowers
who are trying to finance investments.
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Policy 3: Government Budget Deficits and Surpluses
• A budget deficit decreases the supply of loanable funds. • The supply curve of loanable funds shifts to the left. • The interest rate increases.• Saving and investment decrease.
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Figure 4: The Effect of a Government Budget Deficit
Loanable Funds(in billions of dollars)
0
InterestRate
3. . . . and reduces the equilibriumquantity of loanable funds.
S2
2. . . . whichraises theequilibriuminterest rate . . .
Supply, S1
Demand
$1,200
5%
$800
6% 1. A budget deficitdecreases thesupply of loanablefunds . . .
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Policy 3: Government Budget Deficits and Surpluses
• A budget surplus increases the supply of loanable funds, reduces the interest rate, and stimulates investment.
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Should a Nation’s Government Try to Change Its Levels of Saving and Investment?
• There’s no clear answer• More saving and investment is not always good
for us. • While the future is important, so is the present.
While saving and investment improve our future standard of living, they reduce our current standard of living
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Should a Nation’s Government Try to Change Its Levels of Saving and Investment?
• The level of saving and investment that comes out of the interactions of savers and investors in the market for loanable funds is usually—though not always—just right
• The government should intervene only when • It is clear that the market is likely to malfunction,
and• The government is reasonably sure that it would be
able to do a better job than the market
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US Federal Government Budget Deficit
FY 2009 Budget Deficit = $1.4 trillion
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Figure 5 The U.S. Government Debt
Percentof GDP
1790 1810 1830 1850 1870 1890 1910 1930 1950 1970 1990
RevolutionaryWar
2010
CivilWar World War I
World War II
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
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Summary
• The U.S. financial system is made up of financial institutions such as the bond market, the stock market, banks, and mutual funds.
• All these institutions act to direct the resources of households who want to save some of their income into the hands of households and firms who want to borrow.
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Summary
• National income accounting identities reveal some important relationships among macroeconomic variables.
• In particular, in a closed economy, national saving must equal investment.
• Financial institutions attempt to match one person’s saving with another person’s investment.
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Summary
• The interest rate is determined by the supply and demand for loanable funds.
• The supply of loanable funds comes from households who want to save some of their income.
• The demand for loanable funds comes from households and firms who want to borrow for investment.
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Summary
• National saving equals private saving plus public saving.
• A government budget deficit represents negative public saving and, therefore, reduces national saving and the supply of loanable funds.
• When a government budget deficit crowds out investment, it reduces the growth of productivity and GDP.