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Macro Review Flashcards

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Sustainability

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The ability of present generation to meet its needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

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Progressive taxation

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Taxation where the fraction of tax paid increases as income increases. The average tax rate increases.

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Automatic stabilisers

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Institutionally built-in features (like unemployment benefits and progressive income taxation) that tend to decrease the short term fluctuations of the business cycle without the need for governments to intervene

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Infrastructure

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Physical capital typically financed by governments that is essential for economic activity to take place including roads, power, telecommunications and sanitation, generating significant positive externalities.

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Discrimnation

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Discrimination against gender, race, religion, or any other factor plays an important role in perpetuating inequality

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Transfer payment

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Payments made by the government to vulnerable groups in a society, including older people, low income people, unemployment and many more. The objective is to transfer money taxpayers to those who cannot work, to prevent them from falling into poverty.

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Unemployment

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When a person (who is above a specified age and is available to work) is actively looking for work, but is without a job

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Full employment level of output

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The level of output that is produced by the economy when there is only natural unemployment

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Recession

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Occurs when real GDP falls for at least two consecutive quarters

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Crowding out

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The idea that expansionary fiscal policy is not very effective in increasing aggregate demand because the increased borrowing needs of the government to finance the increased expenditures could lead to increased interest rates. Thus, reducing private sector investment, consumer spending, and other components of AD.

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Consumer Price Index

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The average of the prices of the goods and services that the typical consumer buys expressed as an index number. The CPI is used as a measure of the cost of living in a country and to calculate inflation

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Disinflation

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When the average price level continues to rise but at a slower rate so that the rate of inflation is positive but lower

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Inflation - targeting

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When the central bank sets a desired rate of inflation, then manipulates its monetary policies so that the inflation rate stays within that range.

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Direct taxation

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Taxes on income, profits, or wealth paid directly to the government

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Negative growth

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Contraction in a country’s economy, reflected as decrease in GDP, expressed as negative percentage rate?

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Investment

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Spending by firms on capital goods such as machines, tools, equipment and factories

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Industrial Policy

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A type of interventionist supply side policies whereby the government chooses to support specific industries through preferential tax cuts, subsidies, subsidised loans and other means as they are considered pivotal in the growth prospects of the economy.

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Inflation

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A sustained increase in the average price level over time

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Market - based supply side policies & what diagram do we use for it?

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A set of policies based on well-functioning competitive markets in order to promote long term economic growth, shown by increases in LRAS

  • USE NEW CLASSICAL DIAGRAM
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Interventionist supply side policies
& what diagram do we use for it?

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A set of policies that aim to increase an economy’s productive capacity that relies on a greater role for the government; these include expenditures on infrastructure, education, health care, research & development and all industrial policies

– USE KEYNESIAN DIAGRAM

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Types of Unemployment

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Cyclical - occurs in a recession, is a result of a decrease in AD
Seasonal - arises when people are out of a job because their usual job is out of season - lifeguards, ski instructors
Frictional unemployment - individuals who are in between jobs. as people who quit to find a better job or move to a diff location

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Structural Unemployment

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A kind of long term unemployment that arises from a number of factors including tech change, changes in patterns of demand for diff labour skills, changes in geographical location of industries, & labour market rigidities.

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Contracted out

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An alternate to direct provision, when a government hires the services of a private sector company

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Deficit Spending

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Deficit spending is when gov spending is financed through borrowing because the tax revenues are not enough to cover their spending.

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National Income accounting

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The services provided by a statistical entity in every country that measure the economy’s national income and output as well as other economic activity

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Income approach

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One of the three equivalent ways that GDP can be measured by adding all the incomes generated in the process ( wages, profits, interest and rent) for a given time period

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Expenditure approach

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one of three analytically equivalent approaches of measuring GDP that adds all the expenditures made on final domestic goods and services over period of time by households, firms, the government and foreigners.

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Output approach

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Adds up the value of the final goods and services produced by each economic sector such as agriculture, manufacturing, transport.

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GDP & real GDP

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gross domestic product - the value of all final goods and services produced within an economy over a period of time, usually a year or a quarter

real GDP = GDP adjusted for inflation

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GNI & real GNI

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gross national income - income earned by all national factors of production.
equal to GDP plus factor income earned abroad minus factor income paid abroad

real GNI - adjusted for inflation and differences in the cost of living between countries

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OECD Better Life index

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An index to compare well- being across countries based on several dimensions that have been identified as essential in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life

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Happiness index

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An index that is used to measure economic well being of a population using several quality of life dimensions

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Happy Planet Index

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An index that combines four elements to show how efficiently residents of diff countries are using environmental resources to lead long happy lives

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Monetarist/New Classical View

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Monetarists

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Keynesian View

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Keynesian scared of employment, prefer for government to intervene
KEG

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Components of AD

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consumption (C) + investment (I) + government spending (G) + net exports ( total exports (X)- total imports(M))

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Determinants of AD

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C = consumer confidence, interest rates, wealth, income taxes, level of household indebedtness, expectations of future price level

I = interest rates, business confidence, technology business taxes, level of corporate indebtednes

G = political and economic priorities

X -M = income of trading partners, exchange rates policies

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Inflationary gap

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the case where equilibirium output exceeds real output as a result of increases in AD

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Deflationary/recessionary gap

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arises when the equilibirium output is less than real output as a result of decreases in AD

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economic growth

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refers to increases in real GDP over time

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Natural Rate of Unemployment

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the rate of unemployment that occurs when the economy is producing at its potential output or full unemployment level output. = to structural + frictional + seasonal

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Lorenz curve

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a curve showing what percentage of the population owns what percentage of the total income or wealth in the economy. (the further the curve is from line of absolute equality, the more unequal the distribution of income)

42
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cost push inflation and its causes

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inflation caused by result of increased production costs ( typically because of rising money wages or rising commodity prices) illustrated by leftward shift of SRAS curve

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Poverty

& difference between relative and absolute

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arises when the lack of material possessions or money prevent an individual or a family from achieving a minimum satisfactory standard of living

relative is a comparative measure of poverty according to which income levels do not allow people to reach a standard of living that is typical of the society in which they live i.e - single parents stuggling while absolute poverty is people living below minimum income necessary to satisfy basic needs (homless & malnourished)

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single indicators of poverty

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international poverty lines
minimum income standards

45
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Composite indicators of poverty

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multidimensional poverty index

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causes of deflation

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46
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regressive tax

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will worsen the income & wealth distribution in an economy

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proportional tax

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works to redistribute income & wealth but is less effective than a progressive one.

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direct tax

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taxes on income, profits, or wealrg paid

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demand side policies
supply side policies

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aims to manipulate AD to smooth out short-term flunctuations in economic activity while supply side policies aims to increase AS in the long term

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keynesian multiplier

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multiplier / 1- mpc

51
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market based policies

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a set of policies based on well - functioning competitive markets in order to promote long term economic growth, shown by increases in LRAS - PIL

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policies to encourage competition

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deregulation, privatisation, trade liberalisation, anti-monopoly legislation

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labour market policies

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reducing unemployment benefits, reducing power of labour unions, abolishing minimum wage

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incentive related policies

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cuts in personal income taxes, business taxes & capital gain tazes

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interventionist policies

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policies that aim to increase an economy’s productive capacity that relies on a greater role on gov- i.e
ERIPI
- education & training
improvements in quality/access to health care
r & d
provision of infrastructure
industrial policies

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economies of scale

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falling average costs that a firm experiences when it increases its scale of operations

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economic inequality

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unequal distribution of income and wealth

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economic inequalit

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IB Economics Exam Revision (6 decks)

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