Lending as a Saving Strategy for Marco
For Marco, who needs to transfer consumption to a future period, lending to Julia serves as a method of saving. This strategy can be more advantageous than physically storing his grain for two main reasons: it acts as an alternative store of value that bypasses the difficulties and risks of physical storage, and it offers the potential to earn interest.
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An individual has $100 available to spend today and expects to have no income in the future. They have a preference for maintaining a relatively stable level of consumption over time, rather than spending a lot in one period and very little in another. This preference can be represented by indifference curves that are bowed-in towards the origin on a graph plotting 'consumption today' versus 'consumption in the future'.
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