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Revision:Interest Rates and Monetary Policy

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Effects of an interest rates rise

  • Increased cost of borrowing. This reduces demand for consumer durables purchased on credit.
  • Higher opportunity cost of spending. This leads to an increase in saving as indivs postpone current consumption in favour of spending in future time periods.
  • Increased mortgage repayments – reducing effective disposable income. (But increase unearned income from bank accounts)
  • Higher interest rates have negative impact on share prices, and real and nominal house prices: negative wealth effect.
  • So negative wealth effect and reduces current effective disposable income – spend less.

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