Exam 12: Investment and Financial Markets

Recall the Application about the number of homeowners in the year 2012 who owed more on their homes than their homes were worth to answer the following question(s). To assist homeowners who are behind on their payments and may eventually lose their homes to foreclosure, many in Congress have advocated for reduction on the amount of money they actually owe-or principal reduction. The hope is that with a reduction in the amount they owed they would start making timely payments on their mortgages and avoid a messy default. -Recall the Application. Assume that immediately before the housing bubble burst, you purchased a $250,000 home and took out a $225,000 mortgage to make the purchase. When the bubble burst, the value of your home fell by 20 percent. If you immediately sold the home for its new, current value, you will still owe the mortgage company an additional ________ and your total loss incurred from this entire process will be ________.

Which one of the following statements is true?

If you want to purchase a new sports car in four years for $75,000, how much would you need to have in your bank account now, so after four years you will have $75,000 to buy the car? Assume your bank pays 6 percent interest.

Scenario 12.1: Jennifer has decided to give up her pack-a-day smoking habit and invest the money she would have spent on cigarettes in a retirement account. At $6.00 a pack, Jennifer is currently spending $2,190 per year on cigarettes. Jennifer is 25 years old and plans to retire in 35 years, at age 60. She has chosen a retirement account that will earn a long-term average return of 5 percent per year. Jennifer is currently earning $40,000 annually. Assume that the average annual inflation rate will be 5 percent per year, that the cost of cigarettes will increase with inflation, and that Jennifer's income will also rise with the inflation rate. -This Scenario addresses the economic concept of

Financial intermediaries reduce risk by

Keynes referred to the sharp, often irrational, changes in the outlook of investors as the ________ of investors.

Investments are actions that incur costs in the future but provide expected benefits today.

The neoclassical theory of investment was pioneered by

Optimistic investors tend to ________ their investment spending.

The Great Depression was made more severe because