Needed Review: Flashcards
Frictional:
Normal people changing jobs, leaving the market, people getting fired
Structural:
Situation when workers lose jobs to automation, or when the company moves out of town.
Cyclical:
Seasonal labor (like holiday workers/farm labor
Perfect Competition:
No barriers
Homogenous firms
-Common
Monopolistic Competition:
Most popular
People have some control
advertising, branding
Federal Reserve:
Nations Bank
Oligopoly:
Bully out other companies
-High barriers to entry
Few sellers
Monetary Policy
Actions by the FEd to achieve economic growth, stabilize prices, and provide full employment
Monopoly
-One firm
-Barriers to entry
Public utilities
EAsy money:
encourages
Tight money
discourages
Reserve Requirement
The RR can be raised and lowered
Discount rate
The interest rate the FEd charges the banks to borrow money