Let: (1) Pt be the price of one unit of a market basket of goods it be the one-year nominal interest rate.Suppose an individual borrows the equivalent of one unit of a composite commodity today.Given this information,which of the following expressions represents (i.e.,is equal to) the real interest rate (rt) ?
A) (1 + it) (Pet+1) / (Pt)
B) (1 + πet+1) / (1 + it)
C) {(1 + πet+1) / (1 + it) } - 1
D) {(1 + it) (Pt) / (Pet+1) } - 1
E) none of the above
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