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Economics , Fourth Edition
John B. Taylor, Stanford University
Internet Exercises
Chapter 16: Physical Capital and Financial Markets


Present Discounted Value

Questions:

The Present Value Calculator provided by TimeValue Software, computes the present value of a given future balance.

  1. Use this calculator to compute the present discounted value of $1,000 that is received in 5 years when the interest rate is 5% (enter dates in the MM-DD-YR format and be sure that the year is incremented by 5).
  2. Repeat (a), but assume that the interest rate is 10%. How does an increase in the interest rate affect the present discounted value of a future payment?
  3. Repeat (a), but assume that the payment is received in 10 years. How does this affect the present discounted value of this payment?


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