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Macro Chap 16
Test 3
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Economics
Undergraduate 2
12/02/2009

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Term
Fed Budget
Definition
An annual statement of the revenues, outlays, surplus, or the deficit of the government of the united states
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Fiscal Policy
Definition
The use of the fedral budget to achieve Macroeconomic objective of high and sustained economic growth and full employment
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Fiscal Year
Definition
Starts October 1, ends on September 30
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Supply Side effects
Definition
The effects of fiscal policy on potential gdp
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Tax Wedge
Definition
The gap created by a tax in between what a buyer pays and what a seller recieves. In the labor market, it is the gap between the before tax wage rate and after tax wage rate.
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Discretionary Fiscal Policy
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A fiscal Policy that is inated by an act of congress
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Automatic Fiscal Policy
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A fiscal policy that is triggered by the state of the economy.
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Expansionary Fiscal Policy
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Desretionary fiscal policy designed to increase aggregate demand--A discretionary increase in govenment expenditure or transfer payments or discretionarytax cut
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Contractionary Fiscal Policy
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A fiscal policy designed to decrease aggregate deman-- a decrease in government expenditure, a decrease in transfer payments, or a tax increase.
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Induced taxes
Definition
taxes that vary with realGDp
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