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Macro 309
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Economics
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07/18/2011

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Term
GDP- Gross Domestic Product
Definition
The total income of everyone in the economy, or as the total expenditure of everyone in the economy. also the market value of all final goods and services produced within an economy in a given period of time.
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Nominal GDP
Definition
the value of goods and services measured at current prices
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Real GDP
Definition
the value of goods and services measured using the prices of the set base year
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CPI- Consumer Price Index
Definition
A way to measure the total profit of an economy based upon a basket of goods, where you use the same quantity from the base year in your calculations.
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Government Spending
Definition
The amount of money spent by the government, including salaries of government workers.
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Consumption
Definition
The amount of goods and services bought by the consumers.
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Investment
Definition
The total amount of investment in the economy, mainly from equipment and structures, and the inventory.
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Net Exports
Definition
The net amount between exports and imports.
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National Saving
Definition
=Y-T-C+T-G = Investment
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Public Saving
Definition
= Y - T -C
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Public Saving
Definition
= T- G
Term
Money- Store of value
Definition
a way of transferring purchasing power from the present to the future
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Money- Unit of Account
Definition
provides the terms in which prices are quoted and debts recorded
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Money- medium of exchange
Definition
Money is what we use to buy goods and services
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Fiat money
Definition
money that does not have intrinsic value because it is established by governmental decree
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Commodity Money
Definition
Money that has intrinsic value
Gold, cigarettes in POW camps
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Quantity theory of money
Definition
M x V = P x T
T- the # of times in a year that goods or services are exchanged for money
P - number of dollars exchanged
M - quantity of money
V- velocity of money- measures the rate at which money circulates in the economy.
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Nominal interest rate
Definition
The interest rate in which the bank pays
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Real interest rate
Definition
the amount increase in your purchasing power.
nominal - inflation
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Trade balance
Definition
tells us how our trade in goods and services departs from the benchmark of equal imports and exports
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Trade Surplus
Definition
we are net lenders in the world market- we are exporting more than we import
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Trade deficit
Definition
we are net borrowers in the world market. imports are more than exports
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Small open economy
Definition
the economy is a small part of the world market, and can only have a negligible effect on the worlds interest rate. but the residents have full access to the worlds financial markets
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Nominal exchange rate
Definition
The relative price of the currencies between two countries.
US dollar--Jap Yen
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Real exchange rate or Terms of trade
Definition
the relative price of the goods between two countries. the rate at which we can trade the goods of one country for the goods of another.
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Unemployment
Definition
when someone is actively searching for a job and is not employed
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Unemployment- sectoral shift
Definition
when the demand for products shift, so does the labor demand for those product, causing shifts of unemployment.
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Frictional unemployment
Definition
the unemployment caused by the time it takes workers to search for a job
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unemployment insurance
Definition
inadvertantly increases unemployment by giving people money when they are unemployed therefore decreasing the will and haste to search for a job.
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Structural unemployment
Definition
the unemployment resulting from wage rigidity and job rationing.
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Wage rigidity
Definition
the failure of wages to adjust to a level at which labor supply equals labor demand.
caused by minimum wage laws, unions and collective bargaining, and efficiancy wages
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