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1
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Is a measurement of the responsiveness of a quantity demanded to change in price

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Own-price elasticity

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the sensitivity of quantity demanded to a change in income.

%change in Quantity demanded/%change in income

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Income elasticity

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3
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Goods that that have a positive income elasticity . from an increase in income.

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Normal Goods

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4
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An increases in income that leads to a decrease in Quaintly demanded.

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Inferior Goods

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5
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the % change in the quantity demanded of a good to the % change in the price of a related good

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Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand

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6
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An increase in price of a related good decreases demand for another good

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Complements

eg: increase in car price leads to decrease in gas demand

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When a price in a good decreases shifts spending towards more of this good

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Substitution Effect

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8
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when the price of a good falls this and allows the consumer to use there money better else where

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Income Effect

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9
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An inferior good for which the negative income effect outweighs the positive substitution effect when price falls

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Giffen Good

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10
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A higher price makes the good more desirable

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Veblen Good

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What are the 4 factors of production

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Land, Labor, Capital and Materials

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12
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when only considering the only two inputs as capital and labor

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Production Function

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13
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when the quantity of labor for which the additional output for each additional worker begins to decline

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Diminishing marginal productivity/Diminishing marginal returns

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Firms that produce identical products, have low barriers to entry, many firms, and compete based off of price

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Perfect Competition

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Firms that produce products that differentiate from each other, have low barriers to entry, have good substitutes but are slightly different, compete using price marketing and product features

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Monopolistic Competition

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Few firms, high barrier to enter, very good subs but are differentiated, compete using price marketing and features, have some significant pricing power

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Oligopoly

17
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single frim that has very high barriers to enter. No good subs and compete using advertising. Has significant level of price power

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Monopoly

18
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Price is Greater than Cost. this difference is called?

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Markup

19
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The Practice of chagrging Different consumers different prices for the same product or service

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Price Discrimination

20
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The total market value of the goods and services produced in a country within a certain time period.

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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

21
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what is the approach used to calculating GDP by summing the amounts spent on goods and services produced during the period

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Expenditure approach

22
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the calculation used for GDP by Summing the amounts earned by households and companies during the period

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Income Approach

23
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income received by all factors of production used in the creation of final output

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National Income

24
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pretax income received by households.

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Personal income

25
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income that is received after taxes

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Household Disposable

26
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Name all of the Business Cycles

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Contraction(recession), Expansion peak, trough

27
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Cyclical fluctuations in interest rates and the availability of loans

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Credit Cycles

28
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What are some Leading Indicators?

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Weekly hours in Manufacturing, initial Claims for Unemployment insurance, Manufacturers new orders of goods, New orders for non-defense capital goods, New Orders index, Building permits, Stock Prices, Yield Curve, Leading credit Index, Consumer expectations

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What are some Coincident Indicators?

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Employees (non farm payrolls), Personal Income(less transfer payments), Industrial production, Manufacturing and trade Sales

30
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What are some Lagging Indicators

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Duration of unemployment*, Prime Rate, Consumer Price Index, Commercial industrial Loans, Consumer Credit/Personal income ratio

31
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type of unemployment from the time it takes employers and employees to find each other

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Frictional unemployment

32
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type of unemployment that the longer-term economic changes where workers must gain new skills/training

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Structural Unemployment

33
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type of unemployment that results from changes in economic growth, this equals to zero at full unemployment

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Cyclical Unemployment

34
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What is the CPI equation?

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CPI = (Cost of Basket at current price/Cost of basket at base period price) * 100

35
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Increases in wages or other producer input prices decreases short-run aggregate supply, increase price level

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Cost- Push Inflation

36
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Increase in aggregate demand above full employment inscreses price level

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Demand- Pull Inflation

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