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Inflation

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A general increase in prices and fall in purchasing value of money

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Deflation

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Contraction of the supply of circulated money within the economy

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Disinflation

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A reduction in the rate of inflation

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The Phillips Curve

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Shows the short run tradeoff between inflation and employment

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What change causes a shift along the Phillips curve?

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A change in AD

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Negative supply shock

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Occurs when a reduction in short run AS causes stagflation
Shifts short run Phillips Curve
Ex. Natural disaster, change in expecations

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Positive supply shock example

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Finding natural resources

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Relationship between inflation and unemployment in the long run Phillips Curve

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No tradeoff between unemployment and inflation

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Rational expectations theory

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Short run economics policies can be negated by people’s expectations and perceptions
People change behaviors based on what they foresee in the future

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What shifts the SRAS curve?

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anything that shifts LRAS (LLC+T)

Expectations

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Effect on expected price level and short run Phillips Curve with expansionary monetary policy

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Change in expected price level: INCREASE

Effect on short run Philips Curve: SHIFTS RIGHT

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Effect on expected price level and short run Phillips Curve with contractionary monetary policy

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Change in expected price level: DECREASE

Effect on short run Philips Curve: SHIFTS LEFT

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National savings

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Total income in the economy that remains after paying for consumption and government purchases

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Private savings

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The income that households have left after paying for taxes and consumption

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Public savings

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The tax revenue that the government has left after paying for its spending

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Savings=

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Investment

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Savings

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Unspent income put into accounts, bonds, mutual funds, or stocks

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Investment

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The purchase of new capital

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What is needed for long term economic growth?

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Investment and savings

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What happens to long run economic growth when the real interest rate FALLS?

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More investment->more investment->more capital->increases in economic growth

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What happens to long run economic growth when the real interest rate RISES?

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Less investment->less replacement of capital->decrease in economic growth

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Increase in productivity shifts LRAS

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Market for loanable funds

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The market in which those who want to save supply funds and those who want to borrow invest demand funds

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Where does the supply for loanable funds come from?

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People with extra income they want to save and lend out? (Ex. Buying a bond from a firm, depositing into a bank)

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Where does the demand for loanable funds come from?
People who wish to borrow to make investment (ex. Taking out a mortgage to buy a home, firms borrowing to buy new equipment or build factories)
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What is the price of a loan?
The interest rate, it represents the amounts borrowers pay for loans and he amount lenders receive on their saving
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How would a high interest rate affect the quantity of loanable funds?
A high interest rate makes borrowing more expensive, raising the interest rates, and causing the demand to fall. Because a high interest rate makes saving more attractive, the quantity of loanable funds supplied rises
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What happens if the interest rate is lower than the equilibrium level?
The Q of loanable funds supplied is less than the Q demanded. This shortage would encourage lenders to raise the interest rate charged, encouraging saving which would increase the quantity of loanable funds supplied, discouraging borrowing for investment
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What happens if the interest rate is higher than the equilibrium level?
The quantity of loanable funds would exceed the quantity of loanable funds demanded. Interest rates would decrease, and would approach equilibrium where the supply and demand for loanable funds exactly balance
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Tariffs
Sets the price of imports
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Import quotas
Fixed quantity of imports
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Balance of payments
Current account vs. financial capital account
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Current account
Measures flow of physical goods and services (includes trade balance-imports vs. exports)
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Financial/capital account
Measures flow of money
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Current account + capital account=
0
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Net capital outflow=
Net exports | Outflow of $ in capital account - inflow of $ in capital account
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Current account surplus
Imports
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Current account deficit
Imports>exports
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Capital surplus
Inflow>outflow
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Capital deficit
Inflow
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How is deficit spending in the U.S. financed?
By the sale of treasury bonds
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Supply in foreign market model
U.S. buying foreign goods/services/assets
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Demand in foreign market model
Foreigners buying U.S. goods/services/exports (NX)
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Appreciation
Relative rise in the value of currency
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Depreciation
Relative decrease in the value of currency
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When one currency depreciates, the other
Appreciates
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Things that shift supply and demand for a foreign currency
- changes in flows based on changes in interest rates - changes in the rate of inflation - business cycle of a foreign economy
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What happens to imports and exports when currency APPRECIATES?
Exports fall, imports rise
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What happens to imports and exports when currency DEPRECIATES?
Exports rise, imports fall
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When interest rates increase, what happens to the exchange rates and exports?
Exchange rate: APPRECIATES | Exports: DECREASE
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When interest rates decrease, what happens to the exchange rates and exports?
Exchange rate: DEPRECIATES | Exports: INCREASE
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Capital flight
A large and sudden movement of capital in and out of a country
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Import quota
A limit to the amount of goods that can be produced abroad and sold locally

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