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Ch 25 26 28 29 30 Flashcards

1
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The knowledge and skills workers acquire through education training and experience

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Human capital

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2
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The inputs into production that nature provides ie land and mineral deposits

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Natural resources

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3
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Society’s understanding of the best ways to produce goods and services

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Technological knowledge

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4
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As physical capital rises the extra output from an additional unit of physical capital falls

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Diminishing returns

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5
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The property whereby poor countries tend to grow more rapidly than rich ones

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Catch up effect

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6
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A capital investment ie a factory that is owned and operated by a foreign entity

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Foreign direct investment

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7
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A capital investment financed with foreign money but operated by domestic residents

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Foreign portfolio investment

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8
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Aim to raise living standards by a sounding interaction with other countries.
Ex: tariff

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Inward oriented policies

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9
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Promote integration with the world economy

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Outward oriented policies

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10
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Ways that population affects living standards

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Stretching natural resources, diluting the capital stock, and promoting technological progress

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11
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The group of institutions that helps match the saving of one person with the investment of another

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Financial systems

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12
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Institutions through which savers can directly provide funds to borrowers

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Financial markets

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13
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A certificate of indebtedness

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Bond

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14
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A claim to partial ownership in a firm

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Stock

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15
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Institutions through which savers can indirectly provide funds to borrowers

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Financial intermediaries

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16
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Institutions that sell shares to the public and use the proceeds to buy portfolios of stocks and bonds

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Mutual funds

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17
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Tax revenue less government spending

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Public saving

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18
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An excess of tax revenue over government spending

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Budget surplus

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19
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A shortfall of tax revenue from government spending

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Budget deficit

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20
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National savings

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Supply

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21
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Demand

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Investment

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22
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Increase in budget deficit causes fall in investment, gov borrows leaving less funds avail ale for investment

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Crowding out

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23
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Paid employees, self employed and unpaid workers in a family business

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Employed

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24
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People not working who have looked for work during previous four weeks

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Unemployed

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25
The total number of workers including employed and unemployed
Labor force
26
The normal rate of unemployment around which the actual employment rate fluctuates
Natural rate of unemployment
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The deviations of unemployment from its natural rate, associated with business cycles
Cyclical unemployment
28
Occurs when workers spend time searching for the jobs that best suit their skills and tastes. Short term for most
Frictional unemployment
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Occurs when there are fewer jobs than workers
Structural unemployment
30
Process of matching workers with appropriate jobs
Job search
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Changes in the composition of demand across industries or regions of the country
Sectoral shifts
32
Provide info about job vacancies to speed up the matching of worker with jobs
Gov employment agencies
33
Aim to equip workers displaced from declining industries with the skills needed in growing industries
Public training programs
34
A gov program that partially protects workers incomes when they become unemployed
Unemployment insurance
35
A worker association that bargains with employers over wages benefits and working conditions
Union
36
Firms voluntarily play above equilibrium wages to boost worker productivity
Efficiency wages
37
Natural rate of unemployment consists of
Frictional unemployment and structural unemployment
38
The stock of equipment and structures used to produce goods and services
Physical capital
39
The market in which those who want to save supply funds and those who want to borrow invest funds
Market for loanable funds
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The process by which unions and firms agree on the terms of employment
Collective bargaining
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The exchange of one good or service for another
Barter
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Unlikely occurrence that two people each have a good the other wants
Double coincidence of wants
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An item buyers give to sellers when they want to purchase goods and services
Medium of exchange
44
The yardstick people use to post prices and record debs
Unit of account
45
An item people can use to transfer purchasing power from the present to the future
Store of value
46
Takes the form of a commodity with intrinsic value
Commodity money
47
Money without intrinsic money used as money because of gov decree
Fiat money
48
Balances in bank accounts that depositors can access on demand by writing a check
Demand deposits (part of money supply)
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An institution that oversees banking system and regulates money supply
Central bank, fed reserve of US
50
Banks keep a fraction of deposits as reserves and use the rest to make loans
Fractional reserve banking system
51
Regulations on the minimum amount of reserves that banks must hold against deposits
Reserve Requirments
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Fraction of deposits held as reserves, total reserves as percentage of total deposits
Reserve ratio
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The amount of money each banking system generates with each dollar of reserves
Money multiplier
54
Reserves and loans, securities
Assets
55
Deposits funds from debt and equity
Liabilities
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The resources a bank obtains by issuing equity to its owners
Bank capital
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Use of borrowed funds to supplement existing funds for investment purposes
Leverage
58
Ratio of assets to bank capital
Leverage ratio
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A gov regulation that specifies a min amount of capital intended to ensure banks will be able to pay off depositors and debts
Capital requirement
60
Banks with too little capital
Credit crunch
61
The purchase and sale of US gov bonds by the fed
Open market operations (buy increase sell decrease money supply)
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Interest rate on loans Fed makes to banks
Discount rate
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Interest rate on loan from bank to bank
Federal funds rate
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Measured in monetary units
Nominal variables
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Measured in physical units
Real variables
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Price of one good relative to another
Relative price
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Theoretical separation of nominal and real variables
Classical dichotomy
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Proposition that changes in the money supply do not affect real variables
Monetary neutrality
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Rate at which money changes hands
Velocity of money
70
Printing money causes inflation, which is like a tax on everyone who holds money
Inflation tax
71
Fisher effect
Nominal interest rate=inflation rate +real interest rate
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The resources wasted when inflation encourages people to reduce their money holdings
Shoeleather costs
73
The costs of changing prices
Menu costs
74
Inflation changes the yardstick we use to measure transactions Complicated long range planning and comparison of dollar amounts over time
Confusion and inconvenience
75
Firms don't all raise prices at same time so relative prices can vary which distorts allocation of resources
Misallocation from relative price variability
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Inflation makes nominal income grow faster than real income, taxes based on nominal
Tax distortion
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Higher than expected inflation power from creditors to debtors, relay with dollars worth less and vice versa
Arbitrary redistribution a of wealth

AP Macroeconomics (4 decks)

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