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18. Macroeconomics Flashcards

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What is macroeconomics?

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National and international branch of economics

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What topics are covered by macroeconomics?

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  • Measuring size of a country’s economy
  • How to grow the economy
  • Unemployment rates and what affects it
  • Cause of inflation and methods to control it
  • What determines currency exchange rates
  • How imports compare to exports
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What are five government policies that influence business?

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  • Overall economic policy
  • Industry policy
  • Environmental and infrastructure policy
  • Social policy
  • Foreign policy
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What affect does overall economic policy have on businesses?

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  • Demand
  • Taxation
  • Cost of finance (interest rates)
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What affect does industry policy have on businesses?

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  • Regulation
  • Planning
  • Grants
  • Tariffs/quotas
  • Free trade
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What affect does environmental and infrastructure policy have on businesses?

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  • Planning
  • Costs (eg carbon and pollution taxes)
  • Transport costs
  • Efficiency
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What affect does foreign policy have on businesses?

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  • EU compliance
  • World trade organisation
  • Foreign trade
  • Banned exports and imports
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What is national income?

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A measure of the size of a country’s economy. More specifically:

The total value of a country’s final output of all new goods and services produced in a year

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What does the word final mean when defining national income?

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The only then last sale is counted to avoid duplication.

Eg if company a sells to company B, and company B sells to the consumer, then only company B’s sale is included in the national income.

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What is consumption/expenditure and income regarding national income?

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Consumption/expenditure is the amount spent by the customer.

Income is the amount received by seller.

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What must consumption and income be?

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Equivalent

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What are the two main measures of national income?

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  • Gross domestic product (GDP)
  • Gross national product (GNP)
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What does GDP stand for?

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Gross Domestic Product

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What does GNP stand for?

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Gross National Product

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What does GDP represent?

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Total value of income or production taking place in a country

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What does GNP represent?

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Same as GDP but takes into account income earned from abroad and profits earned in a country being sent to foreign investors.

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What is the net property income from abroad?

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The difference between income earned abroad and profits remitted to overseas investors.

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How do you calculate GDP?

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GDP =
Household spending
+ Capital investment spending
+ Government spending
+ Exports of goods and services
- Imports of goods and services

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How do you calculate GNP?

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GNP =
GDP
+ Net profit income from abroad

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What is the circular flow of income?

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Household provide:
- Labour
- Land
- Capital
(Three are known as factors of production)

In exchange, firms provide:
- Wages
- Rent
- Interest

Firms also produce goods and provide services. In exchange households pay for these.

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What are the leakages from the circular flow of income?

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Injections
- Government spending
- Exports
- Investments
and
Withdrawals
- Taxation
- Savings
- Imports

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What is the effect of injections and withdrawals?

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Injections increase circular flow of income, while withdrawals decrease it.

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What is aggregate demand?

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Total demand in the economy for goods and services

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What is aggregate supply?

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Total supply of goods and services in the economy

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How does aggregate demand change when prices decrease?
Aggregate demand goes up
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How does aggregate supply change as prices increase?
Aggregate supply goes up
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What is the term used when aggregate supply and demand are equal?
Equilibrium
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How can you stimulate demand?
- Decrease tax (more to spend) - Increase government expenditure (government borrowing and spending) - Decrease interest rates (cheaper for consumers to borrow and spend)
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What limits aggregate supply?
When everyone is in employment, so no further goods can be made
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What happens if demand is lower than what could be met by the maximum demand (full employment)?
Unemployment
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What is the increase in aggregate demand to achieve full employment called?
The deflationary gap
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What is the deflationary gap?
The increase in aggregate demand to achieve full employment
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What is the inflationary gap?
The amount aggregate demand would need to decrease to achieve full match full employment
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What is the aggregate demand curve?
The line showing what prices occur at certain levels of demand.
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What does a rightward shift of the aggregate demand curve represent?
Economy growth
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What do leftward shifts of the aggregate demand curve represent?
Contraction of the economy
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What is a negative effect of a fast growth of the economy?
Inflation Can suck in imports to meet demand
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What is a negative effect of a fast decline of the economy?
Mass unemployment
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What are rightward shifts of the aggregate demand curve caused by?
- Increase in disposable income - Consumers saving less - Increased government spending - More relaxed monetary policy (printing more money) - Change in net exports (weakening exchange rates cause foreign buyers to increase, increasing demand)
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What is the term used to describe consumers choosing to save less?
Lower marginal propensity to save
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What are leftward shifts of the aggregate demand curve caused by?
- Decrease in disposable income - Consumers saving more (higher marginal propensity to save) - Decreased government spending - Stricter monetary policy (printing less money) - Change in net exports (exchange rate strengthening decreases foreign buyers, decreasing demand)
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What causes inflation?
- Demand pull - Cost push - Import cost inflation - Expectation - Increase in money supply
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What is demand pull?
Prices are pulled upwards due to: - Lots of money in economy - People willing to spend more - Increasing demand
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What is cost push?
A cost of production increases (eg wages) causing the cost of the product to increase.
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What is expectation in relation to inflation?
- People expecting inflation - Creates higher wage demands - Higher wage demands push up prices of products due to cost push
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How does increase in money supply cause inflation?
Causes demand pull
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What types of unemployment are there?
- Real wage unemployment - Frictional unem - Seasonal unemployment - Structural unemployment - Technological unemployment - Cyclical unemployment
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What is real wage unemployment?
- People paid too much - Employers can't afford to keep employees - Self correcting as when too many people are unemployed, they will accept lower wage
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What is Frictional unemployment?
- Temporary unemployment due to move from one job to another - Will always occur to some extent - Not too important as it's temporary
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What is seasonal unemployment?
When unemployment patterns in certain sectors line up with seasons. Eg less building and agriculture jobs during winter
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What is structural unemployment?
- When the structure of an industry changes - Eg UK closing most coal mines - More permanent
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What is technological unemployment?
Caused by technological advances
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What is cyclical unemployment?
- Long term cycle of employment and unemployment - Correspond with rise and fall of economy
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What are the two main policies governments have to control or regulate their economy?
- Fiscal policy - Monetary policy
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What is fiscal policy?
Where the state gets it's money and where it spends it.
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What is monetary policy?
How the state manages the supply of money in the economy. Main methods include: - Interest rates - Credit controls (how much institutions, usually banks, are allowed to lend)
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What is **international payments disequilibrium**?
**When imports and exports don't match.** When importing, you have to convert local currency to foreign currency to pay. When exporting, the buyer converts their currency to your currency. A difference in imports and exports would cause a net sale of the local currency, or a net purchase of the foreign currency
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What factors other than imports and exports contribute to international payments disequilibrium?
- Interest and dividends received from or paid to other countries. - Capital movements (foreign investor buying shares of UK company)
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What is a trade deficit?
When a company imports more than it exports.
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What is a trade surplus?
When a country exports more than it imports.
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What does a net sale of currency A against B do to their values?
The value of currency A goes down compared to currency B
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How might government deal with international payments disequilibrium?
- Interest rates - Exchange rates - Import quotas (max import limit) - Import tariffs (tax on imports) - Procedural methods (stringent safety and testing rules for imports)
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What causes economic growth?
**Rise in national income: GDP rises** - Increasing capital goods/physical capital (infrastructure, equipment that improves efficiency) - Human capital (increasing skill level of workforce) - Technology (New tech stimulates households to buy) - Natural resources (eg finding mineral deposits)
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What are some benefits of economic growth?
- Reduced poverty - Better housing - Better medical facilities - Better education - Better public services
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What are some drawbacks of economic growth?
- Increased inflation - Pollution - Current account deficit (goods demanded by richer people may stimulate imports if home country cant match demand)
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What are some functions of taxation?
- Raises government revenue - Discourage undesirable activities (eg smoking) - Making products match social cost (eg taxing carbon emissions) - Redistribute income and wealth - Protect home industries from foreign competition (import tax) - Stabalise national income (if economy fallsz might need to tax more to avoid borrowing more)
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What are the three types of taxation?
- Regressive - Proportional - Progressive
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What is regressive tax?
When a higher % of a poor person's salary is taxed than a rich person. Eg with VAT, everyone pays 20%, but that is a higher cost for a poor person than a rich person compared to their salaries.
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What is proportional tax?
Takes the same proportion of income tax from all levels of income.
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What is progressive tax?
Takes a higher proportion of income as income rises. This is more effective at redistributing wealth.
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What is direct tax?
Paid directly by a person to the revenue authority (eg income tax)
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What is indirect tax?
Collected by the revenue authority from an intermediary (eg VAT or CIS)
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What is a fixed sum tax?
Where a fixed amount is taxed per unit sold. (Eg wine is taxed the same sum regardless of cost)
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What is ad valorem tax?
Tax charged as a fixed percentage of the price of the good. (Eg VAT is 20%)
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What's it called when tax is charged as a fixed percentage?
Ad valorem tax

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