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Are stock exchanges market makers?
No, they are not market makers.
A market maker is someone who (i) quotes two prices (one 'low' and one 'high'), (ii) will buy from any seller at the low quoted price (even if there is no ...
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Screw foreign investment, lets just print money
"Foreign Direct Investment" is to be understood as bringing in an economy productive capital, and not just purchasing power.
When an economy is seriously below full employment (of capital ...
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Is investment in real estate a real investment?
Purchasing new homes would count as an investment. According to Blanchard et al. Macroeconomics: a European Perspective pp 568 in glossary investment is defined:
Investment (I): Purchases of new ...
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Does stock picking work?
In general, stock picking does not work.
For more information, see this keynote address by Daniel Kahneman, who found that stock-pickers perform worse than chance when they change stocks: https://...
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How to borrow at risk free rate
A private person will almost never have an access to borrowing at risk free rate. However, governments such as Germany or Switzerland can borrow at essentially for all practical purposes at risk free ...
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Is the loan principal ever delivered in pieces over time?
Handing out the principal amount of debt gradually, in increments, is standard practice in investment loans extended by a bank to a corporation.
The rationale is clear : the corporation wants to ...
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Does stock picking work?
This question probably needs the obligatory Efficient Market Hypothesis answer to complement the great answer by Angela Richardson. Broadly, speaking, the EMH reasoning goes like this:
Suppose that ...
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Does dollar cost averaging actually have any advantage over one time investment?
The seminal academic criticism of dollar cost averaging on many specifications of economic conditions is A Note on the Suboptimality of Dollar-Cost Averaging as an Investment Policy (Constantinides (...
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What is the difference between a loan and an investment?
A loan is an agent lending funds to another agent. This money can be used for investment spending, or it can be used for personal consumption expenditures. It can be used to buy fixed assets like real ...
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Can't a country grow its GDP without foreign investment?
No, you can definitely grow GDP without foreign investment or even trade.
There are 3 basic ways to grow GDP. One is increasing human capital, which includes increasing population as well as ...
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How does the GDP multiplier work?
The multiplier comes from the solution to the goods market equilibrium. In economics everything is endogenous. Increase in income increases consumption that increases demand, demand increases ...
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What would happen if individuals stopped investing their money in conservative low-yield products?
That imagined world,
in which individuals only wanted to invest their money in stocks and not on any other product that has anything less than X% annually
is inconsistent with how people think about ...
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Savings = investment with private money creation?
Say you take out a \$1m loan from ABC Bank - they create two entries on your books:
Assets: \$1m cash available funds.
Liablities: \$1m loan you owe the
bank.
Similarly on their books they create ...
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Is a home (primary residence) purchase a form of investment in macroeconomics?
Home construction is a form of investment, home purchase is not. There's an important macro difference between creating the capital asset (construction) and transferring it (purchase).
Regarding ...
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Why is investment not a cost in firms profit functions?
Both in Economics and in Accounting, there is the following fundamental principal: we have to subtract revenues generated in a given time period from costs incurred in the same time period (because ...
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Why does the answer not include increased negative unplanned stock investment?
Scenario “C” does not specify “unexpected.” Since greater growth was expected, planned inventory investment would rise to meet higher expected demand.
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Keynes' conception of investment
The investment ($I$) equals savings ($S$) result is derived by Keynes just from national identity, as a result it just hold by definition. Keynes in the passage starts with the simplified version of ...
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How to compare investments with different risk and expected return?
The trade-off between risk and expected returns depends on your own preferences.
Assume that you are expected utility maximizer and let the return of the investment be given by the random variable $X$....
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Is there any problem with this scheme?
Yes, there are such schemes. They are called pyramid schemes, and the problem is that they are illegal in most countries.
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In the event of a company's bankruptcy, how does a SPV continue operations if it can no longer collect payments on collateral
Servicing and origination don't have to be done by the same firm. It is quite common that the financing company contracts out the servicing rights on the loans they originate.
Servicers, like many ...
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What sort of impact would one expect on investment as a result of an approaching election?
There are many ideas to look into and some research:
IDEAS
Elections are presumably a time where the future becomes uncertain in the sense that there is a likelihood the new leader will change the ...
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Diagram with axes $r$ and $S,I$
It was Alfred Marshall's doing, but based on a premise that still prevails in many parts of Economics: if prices are assumed totally elastic, then, although it may be the case that they are taken as ...
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Inverse/negative relationship between investments and interest rate
The investment I earns income in the future. This income can be compared to the risk free rate of interest in the market to determine whether the income earned on I exceeds the opportunity cost of ...
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How interest rates affect investment
The price and quantity of a scarce resource are determined by supply and demand. The quantity which would be offered at some imagined price increases with that price. The quantity which would be ...
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Does stock picking work?
I think this Quora discussion on the fund manager illusion of validity told most of the story. As one commenter has pointed out the flaw of typical fund manager attempt to use Berhshire Hathaway to ...
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Where does investment originate from in the circular flow model?
Investment ultimately comes from households through savings. From a macroeconomic perspective savings is equal to to investment ($S=I$).
Investment comes from income because saving is portion of ...
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What does it mean, 'Higher interest rates attract FIIs and FPIs'?
Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) and Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) can and do invest in government securities as well. There may be restrictions of course leading to imperfect capital ...
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Is investment in real estate a real investment?
By the way, after a house is built (whether it was built this year or many years ago) it does provide economic value. If renters live there, then the rent they pay is counted as a service in GDP. And ...
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