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Exam II PHCC
For Professor Wyatt Macroeconomics
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Economics
Graduate
10/12/2012

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Term
Real GDP
Definition
The value of the entire output produced annually within a country's borders, adjusted for price changes
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Fiscal Policy
Definition
Changes in government expenditures and/or changes in taxes to achieve particular macroeconomic goals
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Monetary Policy
Definition
Changes in the money supply, or the rate of growth of the money supply, to achieve particular macroeconomic goals
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Price Level
Definition
A weighted average of the prices of all goods and services
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Price Index
Definition
A measure of the price level
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Consumer Price Index
Definition
CPI; A widely cited index number for the price level; the weighted average of prices of a specific set of goods and services purchased by a typical household
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Base Year
Definition
The year chosen as a point of reference or basis of comparison for prices in other years; a benchmark year
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Inflation
Definition
An increase in the price level
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Real Income
Definition
Nominal income adjusted for price changes
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Nominal Income
Definition
The current-dollar amount of a person's income
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The formula for real income?
Definition
Real income = (Nominal Income/CPI) x 100
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Not keeping up with inflation in terms of real income?
Definition
Real income year 1 =/= Real income year 2
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Keeping up with inflation in terms of real income?
Definition
Real income year 2 = Real income year 1
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Fixed-weighted PI...
Definition
PI does not reflect substitutions
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GDP Implicit Price Deflator
Definition
based on all goods and services produced in an economy
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Salary in today's current dollars formula?
Definition
Salary[earlier year] x (CPI[current year]/CPI[earlier year])
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Civilian labor force formula?
Definition
Employed Persons + Unemployed persons
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What is an unemployed person consist of?
Definition
Not having a job, looking for work, available for work; not working but waiting to be called back to a job from which they were temporarily laid off
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Unemployment rate (U) formula?
Definition
Number of employed persons/Civilian labor force
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Employment rate (E) formula?
Definition
Number of employed persons/Civilian noninstitutional population
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Labor force participation rate (LFPR) formula?
Definition
Civilian labor force/Civilian noninstitutional population
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Four types of unemployment?
Definition
Frictional, structural, natural, cyclical
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Cyclical unemployment rate (U[c]) formula?
Definition
Unemployment rate (U) - Natural unemployment rate (U[n])
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Full Employment
Definition
The condition that exists when the unemployment rate is equal to the natural unemployment rate
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Cyclical Unemployment Rate
Definition
The difference between the employment rate and the natural unemployment rate
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GDP
Definition
Gross Domestic Product; The total market value of all final goods and services produced annually within a country's borders
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Final Good
Definition
A good in the hands of its final user
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Intermediate Good
Definition
A good that is an input in the production of a final good
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Double Counting
Definition
Counting a good more than once when computing GDP
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Value Added
Definition
The dollar value contributed to a final good at each stage of production
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Transfer Payment
Definition
A payment to a person that is not made in return for goods and services currently supplied
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Per Capita GDP formula?
Definition
Country's GDP/Population of Country
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GDP overstates our overall what?
Definition
economic welfare
Term
The four sectors in our economy?
Definition
Household, Business, Government, Foreign
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The four expenditures of each sector?
Definition
Consumption, Gross private domestic investment, Gov't consumption expenditures & gross investment, net exports
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Formula for net exports?
Definition
Exports - Imports
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Investment
Definition
The usm of all purchases of newly produced capital goods, changes in business inventories, and purchases of new residential housing
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Inventory Investment
Definition
Changes in the stock of unsold goods
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Formula for computing GDP using the expenditure approach?
Definition
GDP = Consumption + Investments + Government Purchases + (Exports - Imports); C + I[n] + G + NX
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Government Purchases
Definition
Federal, state, and local government purchases of goods and services and gross investment in highways, bridges, and so on.
Term
Government Transfer Payments
Definition
Payments to persons that are not made in return for goods and services currently supplied
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National income is the sum of what five components?
Definition
Compensation of employees, proprietors' income, corporate profits, rental income of persons, and net interest
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National income formula?
Definition
Compensation of employees + proprietors' income + corporate profits + rental income + net interest
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GDP formula in terms of national income?
Definition
National Income - Income earned from the rest of the world + Income earned by the rest of the world + Indirect business taxes + Capital consumption allowance + Statistic discrepancy
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Net domestic product (NDP) formula?
Definition
GDP - capital consumption allowance
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Capital Consumption Allowance
Definition
Depreciation; the estimated amount of capital goods used up in production through natural wear, obsolescence, and accidental destruction
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Personal Income formula?
Definition
National Income - Undistributed corporate profits - social insurance taxes - Corporate profits taxes + Transfer payments
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Disposable income formula?
Definition
Personal income - Personal Taxes
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Disposable Income
Definition
The portion of personal income that can be used for consumption or savings
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Personal income
Definition
The amount of income that individuals actually receive
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Net Domestic Product (NDP)
Definition
measures the total value of new goods available in the economy in a given year after worn-out capital goods have been replaced
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Real GDP
Definition
The value of the entire output produced annually within a country's borders, adjusted for price changes
Term
Real GDP formula?
Definition
Real GDP = Base-year Prices x Current-year quantities
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What is the Real GDP if the Price of Good X in Year 1 is $10 and the Quantity of Produced of Good X (units) is 120 in Year 2?
Definition
$1,200
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Economic growth is measured in terms of?
Definition
An increase in Real GDP
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Business Cycle & all 5 phases?
Definition
Recurrent swings (up and down) in Real GDP: Peak, Contraction, Trough, Recovery, & Expansion
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Percentage change in Real GDP formula?
Definition
({Real GDP[later year] - Real GDP[earlier year}/Real GDP[earlier year]) x 100
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What is the peak of a business cycle? The trough?
Definition
Peak ~ Real GDP's temporary high
Trough ~ Real GDP's temporary low
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Recession
Definition
Economic declince lasting more than a few months
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Aggregate Demand
Definition
The quantity demanded of all goods & services (Real GDP) at different price levels, ceteris paribus
Term
Purchasing Power
Definition
The quantity of goods and services that can be purchased with a unit of money. Purchasing power & price level are INVERSELY related
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Monetary Wealth
Definition
Value of a person's monetary assets
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Real Balance Effect
Definition
The change in the purchasing power of dollar-denominated assets that results from a change in the price level
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Interest Rate Effect
Definition
The changes in household and business buying as the interest rate changes
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International Trade Effect
Definition
The change in foreign sector spending as the price level changes
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An important point to remember on the three different kinds of effects on Aggregate Demand?
Definition
the Interest Rate can change DUE TO things OTHER THAN the price level changing, and not EVERYTHING that changes the interest rate leads to a movement from one point to another point on the AD curve
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Total expenditures on U.S. goods & services formula?
Definition
C + I + G + NX
Term
How is a change brought about in Real GDP?
Definition
A change in the quantity demanded of Real GDP is brought about by a change in the price level.
Term
What can change aggregate demand?
Definition
A change in spending within U.S. goods & services
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What kind of relationship does spending have with aggregate demand?
Definition
Direct
Term
What factors can change consumption with total expenditures?
Definition
Wealth, Expectations about future prices & income, Interest rate, and income taxes
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What factors can change investment with total expenditures?
Definition
Interest rate, expectations about future sales, business taxes
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What factors can change net exports with total expenditures?
Definition
Foreign real national income & exchange rate (price of one currency in terms of another)
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What is appreciation?
Definition
An increase in the value of one currency relative to other currencies
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What is depreciation?
Definition
A decrease in the value of one currency relative to other currencies
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How does a change in money supply change aggregate demand?
Definition
It affects interest rates, in turn affects consumption & investment, then those two change aggregate demand
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Aggregate Supply
Definition
The quantity supplied of all goods & services (Real GDP) at different price levels
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Short-Run Aggregate Supply Curve
Definition
SRAS; A curve that shows the quantity supplied of all goods and services (Real GDP) at different price levels
Term
Why is the SRAS curve upward sloping?
Definition
Sticky wages ~ inflexible wages
Worker misperceptions ~ misperceive real wage changes within the employees
Term
What is the relationship between real wages & quantity supplied of labor? Real wage & quantity demanded of labor?
Definition
Direct, inverse
Term
What shifts the SRAS curve?
Definition
Wage rates, prices of nonlabor inputs, productivity, & supply shocks
Term
What is an adverse supply shock? Beneficial supply shock?
Definition
Adverse ~ shifts the SRAS curve left; bad weather means less farming
Beneficial ~ shifts the SRAS curve right; major oil discovery
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Short-Run Equilibrium
Definition
The condition that exists in the economy when the quantity demanded of Real GDP equals the quantity supplied of Real GDP (short-run)
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Natural Real GDP
Definition
The Real GDP that is produced at the natural unemployment rate
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Long-Run Aggregate Supply Curve
Definition
(LRAS) Curve; The LRAS curve is a vertical line at the level of Natural Real GDP
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Long-Run Equilibrium
Definition
The condition that exists in the economy when wages & prices have adjusted to their final equilibrium levels & workers do not have any relevant misperceptions
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Say's Law
Definition
Supply creates its own demand
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The classical view of economics?
Definition
Viewpoint on economics within the 1750s & 1800s; some ideas are still employed by modern economists
Term
Classical Economists & prices and wages?
Definition
Believed that most markets are competitive; supply and demand operate in all markets
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The three states of the economy in terms of Real GDP & Natural Real GDP?
Definition
Real GDP < Natural Real GDP, Recession; Real GDP = Natural Real GDP, Equilibrium; Real GDP > Natural Real GDP, Inflation
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Three states of the labor market?
Definition
Equilibrium, Shortage, Surplus
Term
Employment rates & Unemployment markets within the state of the labor market?
Definition
Unmployment rate > Natural unmployment rate when Real GDP < Natural Real GDP, Surplus; Unemployment Rate < natural unemployment rate when Real GDP > Natural Real GDP, shortage
Term
What happens if the economy is in a recessionary gap?
Definition
Producing Real GDP < Natural Real GDP, unemployment rate > natural unemployment rate, surplus exists
Term
What happens if the economy is in an inflationary gap?
Definition
Producing Real GDP > Natural Real GDP, unemployment rate < natural unemployment rate, shortage exists
Term
laissez-faire
Definition
A public policy of not interfering with market activities in the economy
Term
Increase in AD means?
Definition
In the short run: P increases, Q increases. Long run: P increases, Q does not change
Term
Decrease in AD means?
Definition
In the short run: P decreases, Q decreases. Long run: P decreases, Q does not change
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