ECON 161A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Budget Constraint, Excess Reserves, Production Function

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A simple model: households: have financial wealth or savings (s) People in general have positive financial wealth or savings to purchase bonds (b) that are issued by banks and firms ; banks are intermediaries and firms create physical goods for new resources. Have deposits (d) with the bank (like checking or savings) Allocate wealth between bonds and deposits: banks: make loans (l) and hold reserves (r) and accept deposits (d) Receive transactions from us, may require additional funds and sell bonds (like commercial paper and negotiable cd"s) So b and d are ways of gaining capital and issuing it back out through loans: firms: purchase investment good (i) Produce output by buying some productive capital and investment good. Y = f (i) --- a diminishing function. I purchased with borrowed funds (assume they allocate everything and don"t save anything): Household has assets, bonds issued by bank and firms.

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