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Macro Flashcards

(31 cards)

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GDP: Components of Aggregate Demand

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  • consumption of consumer goods and services
  • investment in capital goods and real estate
  • government purchases of goods and services
  • net exports (net demand of domestic goods by foreigners)
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Labor Market: Unemployment, types

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Jobless but looking for a job

  • Frictional: result of free labor market and allocation of labor to jobs (“matching”) –> healthy
  • Structural: result of a mismatch of skills in an economy (e.g. shift from manufacturing to service economy)
  • Cyclical: loss of jobs in recession when firms cannot afford to hire enough employees
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Labor Market: unemployment rate

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# unemployed

Labor Force

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Labor Market: Labor Force

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Employed + # Unemployed

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Labor Market: Participation Rate

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Measure of the active portion of an economy’s labor force:

_ Labor Force _

Total Population over 16yTrend

Trend 1970 - 2010

  • men: 80% –> 70% (result of aging population)
  • women: 40% –> 60% –> 55% (recession)
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Labor Market: Categories

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  • employed
  • unemployed
  • retired
  • full-time student
  • disabled
  • other (detached from labor force)
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Macro Data: GDP (Y) Definition

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GDP is a measure of output, i.e. market production

  • market value
  • of all final goods and services newly produced
  • on domestic soil
  • during a period of time
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Labor Market: Problems of Unemployment

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1) Depreciation of human capital (lose skills)
2) Productive externalities: waste resources
3) Social externalities: increase in crime, divorce, etc.
4) Individual self-worth: lower marginal utility of leisure

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GDP: Measuring GDP in Practice

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1) P_roduction method_ (supply): sample firms and gather “value added” (sales - cost of raw material)
2) Expenditure method (demand): Y = C + I + G + NX
3) Income method: Labor income + capital income

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GDP: Expenditure components

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1) Consumption (C): sum of durables, non-durables and services purchased domestically by individual consumers (excluding new housing)
2) Investments (I): sum of durables, non-durables and services purchased domestically by businesses

Does NOT include real estate / stock transactions –> not produced!

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GDP: Government spending

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Spending on goods and services

(Does not include wealth transfers (welfare spending)

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GDP: Supply Side components

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Production = f(A, N, K, other inputs)

A: technology

N: labor input - demand/supply

K: capital input - past investments

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Prices: Types of prices

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P = price of output (cf. CPI)

W = realwage, price of labor

r = real interest rate, price of money

$, e = price of foreign currency, FX market

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Markets that determine the level of GDP (Y) and all aspects of the macroeconomy

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1) Labor market: demand / supply
2) IS-LM market: loan demand / supply
3) Aggregate Demand vs. Aggregate Supply
4) FX market

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Markets: Labor Market (1/4)

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Labor market:

  • determined by demand / supply
  • determines N, W
  • determines production/supply side
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Markets: IS-LM market (2/4)

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IS-LM market:

  • determined by loan demand / supply
  • determines r, I
  • key to central bank policy
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Markets: Aggregate Demand vs Aggregate Supply(3/4)

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Aggregate Demand vs. Aggregate Supply

  • determines P, Y
  • key to understand inflation
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Markets: FX market (4/4)

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FX market

  • determines $, e (value of currency)
  • key to linking international markets
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GDP: Savings - Personal Savings Rate

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Savings Rate =

<em>S(hh) </em>* / *<em>Y(d) </em>

  • Household Savings S(hh) = Y - T + Tr - C
  • Disposable Income Y(d) = Y - T + Tr

(T: Taxes, Tr: Welfare Transfers)

Trend: 1970 - 2010: 15% –> 2.5%

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Savings: Government (Public) Savings, Deficit

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Sgovt = T - (G + Tr)

Negative Sgovt = deficit

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Savings: Total Savings

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Total Savings in the Economy

S = Sgovt + SHH

S = Y - C - G

S = I + NX

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Price and Inflation: Importance to measure prices

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  • price is a key metric to measure production (Y)
  • Changes in price (inflation, deflation) are important to track real growth rates
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Price and Inflation: Price Index, Technological Bias of CPI

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Consumer Price Index

  • representative basket of goods –> measure inflation
  • technological bias: quality improvements, new product inventions distort the CPI –> 1% of inflation
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Price and Inflation: Real and Nominal Values given CPI

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Real Value of 1995 GDP in 1982 $

= Nominal 95$ * CPI (82$/95$)

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Price and Inflation: Real Growth GDP I
1) Determine Real Y(t+1) and Real Y(t) in same year$ 2) Calculate Growth Rate = _Real Y (t+1) - Real Y (t)_ Real Y (t)
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Price and Inflation: Real Growth GDP II
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Price: Yield Curve definition and insights
1. Definition: relationship between interest rates (yields) on securities of differing maturities 2. Insights: infer the market’s expectation of future economic conditions * flat curve: low aggregate demand, recession * upward sloping: boom, growth, high aggregate demand (accelerating π or r)
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Nominal Yield / Interest Rate
i = r + πe + p * i = nominal interest rate * r = real interest rate on security * πe = expected inflation * p = risk premium (in macro = 0)
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Yield Curve: causes for shift
Change (increase, decrease) in * current _and_ future r * current _and_ future πe
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Yield Curve: what causes the yield curve to slope upwards or downwards?
Change in * future (not current) r --\> expected future recession * future (not current ) π--\> expected acceleration or falling inflation rates
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Inflation Why do we care about inflation?
Costs of Inflation * Variability: * higher inflation correlates with higher variability *for both borrower and lender* * both require risk premium * no contract possible, ineffective economy * Indexing Costs: * contracts are indexed * cash flows less stable! * Menu Costs: * costs of re-pricing goods * price loses signaling function * Shoe-Leather Costs: * unattractive to hold cash * increased transaction costs of borrowing