In your macroeconomic lectures you are often told that exchange rates and interest rates are important for macroeconomic decision-making. How does an increase in Japan’s government budget deficit...

In your macroeconomic lectures you are often told that exchange rates and interest rates are important for macroeconomic decision-making.

How does an increase in Japan’s government budget deficit affect each of the following?

1. The real interest rate in the short run in Japan. Explain.


2. Private domestic investment in plant and equipment in Japan.

Draw a correctly labeled graph of the foreign exchange market for the euro, and show the effect of the change in the real interest rate in Japan from part (a)(i) on each of the following.

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   1. Supply of euros. Explain.
   
   
   2. Yen price of the euro
   
   
   
   

1. To reverse the change in the yen price of the euro identified in part (b) (ii), should the European Central Bank buy or sell euros in the foreign exchang market? Explain.