Interest Rates and Asset Values: General Readings


Useful reading material for the topics covered in this lesson is available in Gregory Mankiw's Macroeconomics intermediate textbook, which is published by Worth Publishers. The materials in dealing with the effects of unanticipated and anticipated inflation, realized interest rates and the Fisher Equation, and indexing are covered in Chapter 6, sections 4 and 6, of the Third Edition. The same material should be present in later additions although the relevant chapter becomes Chapter 7. Materials relevant for Topics 1 and 2 can be found in any elementary economics textbook. Indeed, the material in this entire lesson should be available in any textbook dealing with intermediate macroeconomics. Simply check the index for the relevant chapters in which discussions of the the various items can be found.

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