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Suppose you are planning for retirement in a two-period world. In the first period you are young and earn $1 million, and in the second period you are old and retired and earn nothing. The interest rate is initially 10 percent, but then it falls to 7 percent. After the interest rate falls, the:

a. income effect will induce you to consume more when you are young.
b. substitution effect will induce you to consume less when you are young.
c. change in interest rates affects the substitution effect but not the income effect.
d. substitution effect will induce you to consume more when you are young.

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i think "A" should be the answer tho I'm not pretty sure about it

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