Effect of a Higher Interest Rate on Julia's Feasible Frontier
An increase in the interest rate raises the cost of borrowing, effectively increasing the 'price' of shifting consumption from the future to the present. For a borrower like Julia, this causes her feasible frontier to pivot inward from her endowment point. Consequently, her feasible set of consumption choices becomes smaller, and her maximum capacity to consume in the present is reduced.
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Consider an individual who has no income today but is guaranteed to receive $100 in the future. If the interest rate for borrowing against this future income increases, their set of possible consumption choices shrinks. This is because the maximum amount they could consume today decreases, and the maximum amount they could consume in the future also decreases.
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