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Saving, Investment,
and the Financial
System
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Capital accumulation and finance
• In Chapter 24 we saw the close link between the
growth of real GDP and capital accumulation
• Capital stock increases by saving and investing a
part of the current output of the economy
• The financial system is crucial to this process
• Those who save in the economy are not necessarily
those who invest
• As a rule, households and firms spend less than
they earn: in other words, they save
• Firms spend more than they earn: i.e. they invest
• Without a financial system, accumulation of capital
and impovements in living standards would be very
difficult in a market economy
The Financial System
• The financial system consists of the group of
institutions in the economy that help to match
one person’s saving with another person’s
investment.
• It moves the economy’s scarce resources from
savers to borrowers.
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FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE
U.S. ECONOMY
• The financial system is made up of financial
institutions that coordinate the actions of
savers and borrowers.
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The financial system
• Altogether financial activities directly account for 4
to 5 % of GDP in developed market economies
• The share of financial activities Turkey’s GDP in
2001 is 3.7 %
• The financial system consists of three parts
– Financial markets
– Financial intermediaries
– Public bodies regulating financial institutions
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Markets and intermediaries
• Financial markets are made of institutions through
which savers can provide funds directly to borrowers
– Bond market
– Stock market
• Financial intermediaries are those institutions
through which savers can provide funds indirectly to
borrowers
– Banks
– Mutual funds
• Leasing and factoring companies are financial
intermediaries
• Brokerage houses (Menkul Değerler Şirketleri) are
financial market institutions
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Regulation of the financial system
• Money is a very sensitive product, easy to abuse
• Therefore, financial systems are everywhere very
heavily regulated by governments
• Those public bodies which supervise financial
institutions are part of the financial system
• We distinguish four institutions in Turkey:
– The Central Bank (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Merkez
Bankası TCMB)
– Treasury (Hazine)
– Bank Regulation and Supervision Agency
(Ban-kacılık Denetleme ve Düzenleme Kurulu
BDDK)
– Capital Markets Board (Sermaye Piyasası
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE
U.S. ECONOMY
• Financial Markets
• Stock Market
• Bond Market
• Financial Intermediaries
• Banks
• Mutual Funds
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FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE
U.S. ECONOMY
• Financial markets are the institutions through
which savers can directly provide funds to
borrowers.
• Financial intermediaries are financial
institutions through which savers can indirectly
provide funds to borrowers.
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Financial Markets
• The Bond Market
• A bond is a certificate of indebtedness that
specifies obligations of the borrower to
the holder of the bond.
• Characteristics of a Bond
• Term: The length of time until the bond matures.
• Credit Risk: The probability that the borrower will fail to
pay some of the interest or principal.
• Tax Treatment: how income from bond is taxed
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• In developed economies, issuing bonds is a major
source of finance for private corporations as well as
central and local government
• In Turkey the bond market is fully dominated by
Treasury bonds (T-bills) and private company bonds
are almost nonexistent
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Financial Markets
• The Stock Market
• Stock represents a claim to partial ownership in a
firm and is therefore, a claim to the profits that the
firm makes.
• The sale of stock to raise money is called equity
financing.
• Compared to bonds, stocks offer both higher risk and
potentially higher returns.
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• All major financial centers have stock
exchanges: New York, London, Tokyo,
Frankfurt, Paris, etc.
• Istanbul Stock Exchange (İstanbul Menkul
Değerler Borsası İMKB) is growing stock
market
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Financial Markets
• The Stock Market
• Most newspaper stock tables provide the following
information:
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Price (of a share)
Volume (number of shares sold)
Dividend (profits paid to stockholders)
Price-earnings ratio
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Financial Intermediaries
• Financial intermediaries are financial
institutions through which savers can indirectly
provide funds to borrowers.
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Financial Intermediaries
• Banks
• take deposits from people who want to save and
use the deposits to make loans to people who want
to borrow.
• pay depositors interest on their deposits and
charge borrowers slightly higher interest on their
loans.
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Financial Intermediaries
• Banks
• Banks help create a medium of exchange by
allowing people to write checks against their
deposits.
• A medium of exchanges is an item that people can easily
use to engage in transactions.
• This facilitates the purchases of goods and services.
• Two state banks (Ziraat and Halk) and four private
banks (Garanti, İş, Ak and Yapı Kredi) make up a
large part of the banking system
• Total deposits in the banking system is about 50
percent of GDP
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Financial Intermediaries
• Mutual Funds
• A mutual fund is an institution that sells shares to
the public and uses the proceeds to buy a portfolio,
of various types of stocks, bonds, or both.
• They allow people with small amounts of money to
easily diversify.
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Mutual funds
• In Turkey the equivalent of mutual funds is called
investment funds (yatırım fonları)
– A-type funds have at least 25 % of their portfolio
in stocks
– B-type funds have mainly bonds and REPOs
– REPOs are short maturity transactions that
involve purchase and repurchase of T-bills
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Present value
• Both for saving and investment decisions, it is
important to understand how compounded interest
works
• Assume you wish to compare 100 mil.TL today with
200 mil.TL in ten years assuming zero inflation and
5 % real interest rate
• You can either calculate the value of 100 mil. TL in
10 years
100 x (1 + 0.05)10 = 162.9 mil.TL
• Or the present value of 200 mil.TL today
200 x ( 1 / (1 + 0.05)10 = 122.8 mil. TL
• Obviously at 5 % real interest rate, 200 mil.TL has a
bigger present value than 100 mil.TL
SAVING AND INVESTMENT IN THE
NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTS
• Recall that GDP is both total income in an
economy and total expenditure on the
economy’s output of goods and services:
Y = C + I + G + NX
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Some Important Identities
• Assume a closed economy – one that does not
engage in international trade:
Y=C+I+G
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Some Important Identities
• Now, subtract C and G from both sides of the
equation:
Y – C – G =I
• The left side of the equation is the total income
in the economy after paying for consumption
and government purchases and is called
national saving, or just saving (S).
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Some Important Identities
• Substituting S for Y - C - G, the equation can be
written as:
S=I
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Some Important Identities
• National saving, or saving, is equal to:
S=I
S=Y–C–G
S = (Y – T – C) + (T – G)
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The Meaning of Saving and Investment
• National Saving
• National saving is the total income in the economy
that remains after paying for consumption and
government purchases.
• Private Saving
• Private saving is the amount of income that
households have left after paying their taxes and
paying for their consumption.
Private saving = (Y – T – C)
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The Meaning of Saving and Investment
• Public Saving
• Public saving is the amount of tax revenue that the
government has left after paying for its spending.
Public saving = (T – G)
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The Meaning of Saving and Investment
• Surplus and Deficit
• If T > G, the government runs a budget surplus
because it receives more money than it spends.
• The surplus of T - G represents public saving.
• If G > T, the government runs a budget deficit
because it spends more money than it receives in
tax revenue.
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The Meaning of Saving and Investment
• For the economy as a whole, saving must be
equal to investment.
S=I
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THE MARKET FOR LOANABLE
FUNDS
• Financial markets coordinate the economy’s
saving and investment in the market for
loanable funds.
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THE MARKET FOR LOANABLE
FUNDS
• The market for loanable funds is the market in
which those who want to save supply funds
and those who want to borrow to invest
demand funds.
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THE MARKET FOR LOANABLE
FUNDS
• Loanable funds refers to all income that people
have chosen to save and lend out, rather than
use for their own consumption.
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Supply and Demand for Loanable Funds
• The supply of loanable funds comes from
people who have extra income they want to
save and lend out.
• The demand for loanable funds comes from
households and firms that wish to borrow to
make investments.
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Supply and Demand for Loanable Funds
• The interest rate is the price of the loan.
• It represents the amount that borrowers pay for
loans and the amount that lenders receive on
their saving.
• The interest rate in the market for loanable
funds is the real interest rate.
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Supply and Demand for Loanable Funds
• Financial markets work much like other
markets in the economy.
• The equilibrium of the supply and demand for
loanable funds determines the real interest rate.
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Figure 1 The Market for Loanable Funds
Interest
Rate
Supply
5%
Demand
0
$1,200
Loanable Funds
(in billions of dollars)
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Supply and Demand for Loanable Funds
• Government Policies That Affect Saving and
Investment
• Taxes and saving
• Taxes and investment
• Government budget deficits
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Policy 1: Saving Incentives
• Taxes on interest income substantially reduce
the future payoff from current saving and, as a
result, reduce the incentive to save.
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Policy 1: Saving Incentives
• A tax decrease increases the incentive for
households to save at any given interest rate.
• The supply of loanable funds curve shifts to the
right.
• The equilibrium interest rate decreases.
• The quantity demanded for loanable funds
increases.
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Figure 2 An Increase in the Supply of Loanable
Funds
Interest
Rate
Supply, S1
S2
1. Tax incentives for
saving increase the
supply of loanable
funds . . .
5%
4%
2. . . . which
reduces the
equilibrium
interest rate . . .
Demand
0
$1,200
$1,600
Loanable Funds
(in billions of dollars)
3. . . . and raises the equilibrium
quantity of loanable funds.
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Policy 1: Saving Incentives
• If a change in tax law encourages greater
saving, the result will be lower interest rates
and greater investment.
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Policy 2: Investment Incentives
• An investment tax credit (yatırım vergi
istisnası) increases the incentive to borrow.
• Increases the demand for loanable funds.
• Shifts the demand curve to the right.
• Results in a higher interest rate and a greater
quantity saved.
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Policy 2: Investment Incentives
• If a change in tax laws encourages greater
investment, the result will be higher interest
rates and greater saving.
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Figure 3 An Increase in the Demand for
Loanable Funds
Interest
Rate
Supply
1. An investment
tax credit
increases the
demand for
loanable funds . . .
6%
5%
2. . . . which
raises the
equilibrium
interest rate . . .
0
D2
Demand, D1
$1,200
$1,400
Loanable Funds
(in billions of dollars)
3. . . . and raises the equilibrium
quantity of loanable funds.
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Policy 3: Government Budget Deficits and
Surpluses
• When the government spends more than it
receives in tax revenues, the short fall is called
the budget deficit.
• The accumulation of past budget deficits is
called the government debt.
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Policy 3: Government Budget Deficits and
Surpluses
• Government borrowing to finance its budget
deficit reduces the supply of loanable funds
available to finance investment by households
and firms.
• This fall in investment is referred to as
crowding out.
• The deficit borrowing crowds out private borrowers
who are trying to finance investments.
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Policy 3: Government Budget Deficits and
Surpluses
• A budget deficit decreases the supply of
loanable funds.
• Shifts the supply curve to the left.
• Increases the equilibrium interest rate.
• Reduces the equilibrium quantity of loanable funds.
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Figure 4: The Effect of a Government Budget
Deficit
Interest
Rate
S2
Supply, S1
1. A budget deficit
decreases the
supply of loanable
funds . . .
6%
5%
2. . . . which
raises the
equilibrium
interest rate . . .
Demand
0
$800
$1,200
Loanable Funds
(in billions of dollars)
3. . . . and reduces the equilibrium
quantity of loanable funds.
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Policy 3: Government Budget Deficits and
Surpluses
• When government reduces national saving by
running a deficit, the interest rate rises and
investment falls.
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Policy 3: Government Budget Deficits and
Surpluses
• A budget surplus increases the supply of
loanable funds, reduces the interest rate, and
stimulates investment.
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Turkey: the rise in public debt
80
%
70
60
50
40
30
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
Net Debt/GNP
1999
2000
2001
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Conclusion
• Growth of output and accumulation of capital
requires saving from current output with the aim of
increasing the capital stock in the economy
• Financial system is the vital link between those who
save and those who invest
• Financial markets work like other markets in the
economy
• They coordinate borrowing and lending, helping to
allocate the economy’s scarce resources efficiently
• Turkey’s financial system includes financial
institutions such as banks and mutual funds and
financial markets such as the bond market and the
stock market
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Conclusion
• National saving equals private saving plus public
saving
S=(Y–T–C)+(T–G)=I
• Saving and investmend decisions are reflected into
the market for loanable funds
• Supply and demand for loanable funds determine
the real interest rate
• The budget deficit of the government represents
negative public saving, reducing national saving
and the supply of loanable funds
• Budget deficit crowds out private investment thus
reducing growth of GDP and the living standards in
the long run