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    economy, and a contractionary policy diminishes the total supply. Expansionary policy is used to tackle unemployment in an economic decline by lowering interest rates, while contractionary policy has the goal of elevating interest rates to fight inflation. Monetary policy reposes on the relationship between the rates of interest in an economy and the total dispense of money. Monetary policy uses a diversity of tools to

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    CHAPTER TWELVE SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND POLICY IMPLICATION 12.1 Summary The present study consists of twelve chapters. The summary of the whole study from chapter one to chapter eleven is presented below. Chapter one is devoted to ‘introduction’ consisting the general background of Nepalese economy with some political and socio-economic scenario. The monetary background with reference to banking and financial institutions and, price and inflationary situation of Nepalese economy are focused in this

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    (Pettinger Tejvan) • 1980s: unemployment was over 2 million (Pettinger Tejvan) • unemployment rate decreased to 7.1% (Adam Taylor) Lawson Boom: • 1985: UK economy grew rapidly (Lawson Boom). "economic growth reached 4-5% a year" (Pettinger Tejvan) • Inflation increased to 10% (Pettinger Tejvan) • 1990: Boom came to an end which led to another recession (1991-1992) (Pettinger Tejvan) • In Lawson Boom: deficit "reached 5% of GDP" (Pettinger Tejvan) • Rise of house prices, tax cuts, lower interest rates

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    Introduction In 2008-2009, the economy financial crisis has been affected in many countries with a rapidly decreasing in housing prices, follow by a protracted real estate boom. This has created an interest in the relationship between monetary policy and asset price, and it became a huge debate on how monetary policy should react to discern deviations of asset price developments. Even before the financial crisis in 2008-2009 happened there also has been a gigantic debate whether or not central bank

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    out of control. This means that it has to stay within the expected realms of growth path so that it is capable of avoiding long-drawn recessions. This can occur based on internal mechanism or through help from policy that provide protection from inflation and recession. The economy should be able to respond to such polices without any major structural constraints. In this case, macroeconomics helps in understanding the underlying issues that can help in the realization of such economies. A healthy

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    expectations of inflation can cause inflation. For this reason expectations are central to all policy discussions, and what people believe policy will be significantly influences the effectiveness of the policy. Expectations complicate models and policymaking enormously; they change the focus of discussions from a response that can be captured by simple models to much more complicated discussions. The adaptive expectations theory assumes people form their expectations on future inflation on the

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    are used further to exhibit further five situations: • ‘Difference in Interest rates’ equals ‘Expected difference in Inflation rates’ • ‘Expected change in spot rate’ equals ‘expected difference in inflation rates’ • ‘Difference between forward and spot rates’ equals ‘Difference in Interest rates’ • ‘Difference between forward and spot rates’ equals ‘Expected difference in Inflation rates’ • ‘Expected change in spot rate’ equals ‘Difference in interest rates’ The validation procedure of the aforementioned

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    The US economy is slowly expanding, with unemployment and GDP growth slowly returning to its pre-recession levels. However, improvements in the economy has not been evenly felt across social classes. The middle class – second, third, and fourth quintile – are struggling to recover from the recession. Therefore, because JA Homes specializes in constructing houses for the middle class, I recommend the firm to contract in the next three years. The latest FOMC statement indicates that the economy is

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    in 1994, annual inflation rate was running at 1000%. This level discouraged economic activity and foreign direct investments (FDI). To fight inflation, the Brazilian government replaced its previous currency, the cruzeiro with the real. The real was pegged to that of the US dollar. Interest rates were repeatedly increased to maintain the value of the real to that of the US dollar. For Brazil, the high cost of credit helped reduce expansion of the monetary supply and brought inflation under control

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    Improvement in the UK economy is usually dependant on the improvement of four major factors, economic growth, balance of payments, unemployment and inflation. This should lead to steady economic growth that would lead to a steady increase in the productive capacity in the economy. Income tax is the percentage of income that people are taxed upon that is given to the government. There are many policies that can be used to tackle these certain goals, for example fiscal and monetary policy. Fiscal is

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