Explain the concept of present value

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1. Explain the concept of present value. Show how to calculate the present value of some future payment. Give an example other than the intertemporal budget constraint of where this concept would be used.

2. Suppose there is a consumer that lives three periods. It has a time endowment in each period equal to 1 that it splits between leisure and work. The budget constraints in each period are1111 hwsc 112222 )1( srhwsc 22333 )1( srhwc Derive the intertemporal Budget Constraint for the consumer. Be sure to show the steps.

3. What is a sovereign debt crisis? What typically sets off such a crisis? What are the conditions that make a sovereign debt crisis more likely to occur? Provide some intuition for why such conditions matter.

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