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Macroeconomics Flashcards

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Definition Macroeconomics

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Deals with economy as a whole. Examines the behaviour of economic aggregates such as aggregate income, consumption, investment and the overall level of prices. Prices are sticky so markets are uncapable o of self-correcting (need for intervention)

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Definition Sticky Prices

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Prices don’t adjust to maintain equilibrium between quantity supplied and quantity demanded

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Macroeconomic concerns (3)

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1) Inflation
2) Unemployment
3) Output (Growth)

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Definition Inflation

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Sustained increase in the general level of prices for goods and services (annual percentual increase)
Increasing inflation –> decreasing purchasing power

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Definition Deflation

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General level of prices is falling (opposite of inflation)

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Definition Disinflation

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Inflation is decreasing (prices are still increasing, but rate of increase in prices has decreased)

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Definition Hyperinflation

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Unusually rapid inflation (Germany 1923)

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Definition Stagflation

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Combination of high unemployment and economic stagnation with inflation

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Definition Core Inflation

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  • Indicator of underlying long-term inflation

- Consumer Price Index (CPI) and excluding items like food or energy or products with high price changes

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Definition Open Inflation

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  • Government doesn’t try to prevent a rise in prices
  • prices grow unlimitedly
  • rationing of goods and distribution based on ability to pay
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Definition Suppressed Inflation

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  • Government stops a rise in prices

- control introduction (measures of settlement and rationing)

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Causes of Inflation

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1) Demand-Pull Inflation (demand grows faster than supply –> prices increase)
2) Cost-Push Inflation (Companies’ costs go up –> increased prices to maintain margins)

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Costs of Inflation

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  • anticipated inflation can be ‘controlled’
  • unanticipated inflation: lower costs of loans, consumers spend less, declining purchasing power and standard of living
  • re-pricing costs
  • domestic products become less competitive
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How do we measure inflation?

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1) market basket with representative products
2) Consumer Price Index: Measure of price change (purchaser perspective) in consumer goods and services
3) Producer Price Index: Family of indexes measuring the average change over time in selling prices by domestic producers of goods and services (seller’s perspective)

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Definition Output Growth

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  • Increase in production capacity of goods and services of an economy compared from one time period to another
  • measured in nominal terms: include inflation
  • measured in real terms: adjusted to inflation
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Definition Business Cycle

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  • Cycle of short-term ups and downs in an economy
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Definition aggregate output

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  • Total quantity of goods and services produced in an economy in a given period of time (measured by GDP)
  • main measure of an economy’s performance
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Definition Recession

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  • Period during which aggregate output declines
  • signaled by two consecutive quarters of decrease in aggregate output
  • prolonged and deep recession = depression
  • aim: smoothen fluctuation in output during business cycle and increase growth rate of output in the long run
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Definition Unemployment

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  • Percentage of labor force (not population) that is unemployed
  • employed = working min. 1h paid or 15h no pay
  • unemployed = person between 16 and 65 actively seeking for a job, but can’t find one
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Implications of Unemployment

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  • key indicator for economic health

- existence of unemployment implies that the aggregate labor market is not in equilibrium

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Definition Under-employment

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Worker is employed, but not in desired capacity (hours, skills, wage), e.g. part-time workers, high-skilled workers in low quality jobs

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Definition discouraged-worker effects

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  • unemployed workers want to find a job, but can’t find one –> get discouraged and stop looking for work
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Definition Natural Rate of Employment

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  • natural job seekers and job openings (will be matched)

- job seekers gather information about job type and wage rate

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Definition Frictional Unemployment

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Normal worker movement from one job to another (good for economy, since they maybe find a better job)

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Definition Structural Unemployment

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Unemployment due to structural changes in economy causes loss of jobs in certain industries

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Definition Cyclical Unemployment

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Increases during recession and decreases during expansion

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Definition Labor force participitation rate

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  • rate of working-age persons in an economy, who are employed, unemployed, but looking for a job
  • labor force / population
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Definition labor force

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labor force = employed + unemployed

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Definition population

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labor force + not in labor force

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Definition unemployment rate

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unemployed / labor force

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Definition Fiscal Policy

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Government influences the economy by spending and taxation to promote strong and sustainable growth and reduce poverty

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Definition Monetary policy

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  • Money supply and interest rates by central bank
  • achieve unemployment, inflation, growth
  • decrease inflation and recover from recession
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Definition Supply side policy

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  • stimulate aggregate supply instead of aggregate demand

- economic growth by lower tax rates and less regulation –> facilitate production of goods and invest in capital

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Circular Flow Diagram

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  • Shows income received and payments made by each sector of economy
  • private sector: households and firms
  • public sector: government
  • Rest of the world: international sector
  • -> every transaction has two sides
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Definition Transfer payments

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Payments from government to people who do not supply goods, services or labor in exchange for these payments

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Goods & Services market (G&S)

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  • households and governments demand goods and services
  • firms supply goods and services
  • international trade (import and export)
  • price of G&S is determined
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Labor market

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  • firms and government demand labor from households (supply)
  • total supply of labor depends on decisions made by households
  • price of labor (wage) is determined
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Money market

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  • households buy stocks and bonds from firms
  • firms and government also engage in borrowing and lending
  • interest rates are determined
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National income and product accounts

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Key components of national income and output in economy –> how they are connected and how economy performs

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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (basic measure of how economy performs)

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An estimated value of the total worth of a country’s production and services, within its boundary, by its nationals and foreigners, calculated over the course on one year (total production value)

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How is market value determined?

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Value of a good is measured by its price, which is determined in the market

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Definition Final Goods & Services (G&S)

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  • all goods for final use excluding resale and intermediate goods to avoid double accounting
  • any good used longer than a year
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Definition intermediate goods

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  • Goods produced by one firm for use in further processing by another firm
  • any good that is used within a year
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Meaning ‘within a country’

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Good is included into border of economy in which it is produced without considering the ownership of production

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Definition value added

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Difference between a firm’s total revenue and what it pays other firms for intermediate goods (wages, rent, salaries, interest, profit)

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Calculating GDP

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1) summing up value added at each production stage
2) taking value of final sales

consumption + investment + (government spending) + (exports - imports)

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Exclusions from GDP

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1) Raw materials and intermediate goods
2) Non-Market production (for own consumption)
3) paper transactions (bonds dividends)
4) second hand sales (money or goods are exchanged, but no new goods are produced)
5) Illegal production
6) transaction from import goods (only domestic production or output)

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Domestic production (GDP)

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  • good or service produced in this economy
  • good produced elsewhere and sold here doesn’t count
  • output from German people elsewhere is not included in German GDP (output not produced in Germany)
  • output from foreigners in Germany counts in German GDP (production is here)
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Gross National Product (GNP) (how nationals of a country perform economically)

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  • An estimated value of the total worth of production and services, by citizens of a country, on its land or on foreign land, calculated over the course of one year
  • Total output produced by domestically owned FOP regardless of where in the world they are physically located
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Calculation GNP

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GDP + NR (net income inflow from assets abroad) - NP (net payment outflow to foreign assets)

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Calculating GDP: expenditure approach

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  • total amount spent on all final goods during a given period

GDP = C + I + G + (EX - IM)

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Personal Consumption Expenditures (C)

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  • Expenditures by consumers on final Goods & Services

- durable goods, nondurable goods and services

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Definition Durable Goods

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Goods, that last quiet a long time (e.g. cars)

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Definition Nondurable Goods

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Goods, that are used quickly (e.g. food or clothing)

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Definition Services

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Not involving physical things (e.g. legal, medical services, eating away)

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Investment (I)

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  • Purchase of new capital goods
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Definition Gross private domestic investment

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Total investment by private sector (housing, equipment)

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Definition Nonresidential Investment

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Expenditures by firms for machines, tools, plants

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Definition Residential Investment

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Expenditures by households and firms on new houses and apartment buildings

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Definition Inventories

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  • Goods that firms produce now but intend to sell later

- change in given period

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Relationship total production (GDP) and total sales

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GDP = final sales + change in business inventories

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Definition Depreciation

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Difference between gross investment and net investment (asset’s value falls in given period)

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Definition Net investment

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Equal to gross investment less depreciation

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Definition Gross investment

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Total value of all newly produced capital goods (plant, equipment, housing and inventory) in a given period

Capital (end of period) = Capital (start of period) + net investment

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Government consumption and gross investment (G)

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  • Expenditures by all levels of government (federal, state and local)
  • Not including government transfer pays or interest payments on national debt (neither is payment for final Goods & Services)
  • Domestic spending includes purchases of imports (included in C and subtracted from Imports)
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Exports (EX)

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Sales to foreigners of a nation’s-produced Goods and Services

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Imports (IM)

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A nation’s purchases of Goods & Services from abroad

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The income approach

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Computing GDP by measuring income (wages, rents, interests and profits) - received by all FOP in producing final goods

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Four Components of Income Approach

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1) National income
2) Depreciation
3) Indirect Taxes Minus Subsidies
4) Net factor payments to rest of the world

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Income Approach: National Income

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  • total income earned by the FOP owned by a country’s citiziens
  • NI = employee compensation + proprietor’s income + corporate profits + net interests + rental income
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Income Approach: Depreciation

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  • Decrease in value of capital assets

- Income paid to a FOP (e.g. robot wears out)

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Income Approach: Indirect Taxes Minus Subsidies

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  • indirect taxes are included in final sales

- subsidies = negative indirect taxes

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Definition subsidies

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Government payments for which it receives no goods or services for (subtracted from national income to get GDP)

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Income Approach: Net factor payments to rest of the world

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Interests and dividends citizens receive on investments abroad minus receipts of spendings abroad

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Net national product (NNP)

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GNP minus depreciation (nation’s total product minus what is required to maintain the value of its capital stock)

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National Income (NI)

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NNP minus indirect business taxes plus subsidies

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Personal Income (PI)

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Total income of households

NI - (profits - dividends) - social insurance payments + personal interest income form government and consumers + transfer payments made to persons

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Disposable Personal Income (DPI)

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PI minus personal income taxes

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Personal saving

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Any disposable personal income not spent

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Nominal GDP

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GDP with current prices for goods and services

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Definition Inflation

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Increase in average price level

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Calculating Real GDP

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fixed-weight procedure: choose base year and prices in that year (sensitive to growth rates)

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Calculation GDF deflator

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  • way to measure overall price level

- (Nominal GDP / Real GDP) x 100

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Problem of Fixed Weights

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ignores:

  • structural changes in economy
  • supply shifts
  • substitution effects of price increases
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Limitations of GDP

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  • social welfare (some factors not measures, e.g. crime)

- underground economy not included

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Gross National Income per Capita

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  • GNI / population

- measure for well-being

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Gross National Income

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  • for international comparisons of output

- GNP converted into dollars

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