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Macroeconomics Exam !
Macro economics material
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Economics
Undergraduate 3
10/25/2018

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Factors Of Production
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Resource Inputs used to produce goods and services. (Land,Labor,Capital, And Entrepreneurship)
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Opportunity Cost
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Te most desired goods and services that are forgone in order to obtain something else.
It is what it given up in order to get something else.
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Production Possibilities frontier/curve
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Particular shape illustrates the law of increasing oppurtunity costs.
Scarce resources: Limit to the amount we can produce in a given time period with available resources and technology.
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Productive Efficiency
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Allocative Efficiency
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Law Of increasing opportunity costs
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The invisible Hand
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Adam Smith
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Price Mechanism
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Profit Motive
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Laissez Faire
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Ceteris paribus
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Gross Domestic product
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Market Failure
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GDP per Capita
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Net Exports(X-M)
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Investments
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Government Expenditures
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Exports/imports
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Consumption
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Comparative Advantage
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Productivity
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Capital-intensive
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Labor-intensive
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Human Capital
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Factor Mobility
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Externalities
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Supply
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Demand
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Factor Market
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Product Markets
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Demand Schedule and demand curves
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Supply Schedule and Supply curve
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Law of demand
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Demand Determinants
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Supply Determinants
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Substitute/ Complimentary Goods
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Shifts(or increases/decreases) in demand/supply
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Equilibrium
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Surplus
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Shortage
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Price Floor
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Price Ceiling
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Public Goods
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Market Power
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Free-rider problem
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Transfer Payments
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Progressive Tax
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Regressive Tax
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Federal tax Revenues
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State and Local tax Revenues
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rely heavily on sales tax and income tax.
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Federal Spending
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State and Local Spending
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Education, health, pensions, welfare, transport, protection.
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Real Vs. Nominal GDP
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GDP VS. GNP
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GSP VS. GPI
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Intermediate Goods
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Value Added
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Depreciation
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GDP= C + I + G + (X-M)
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Circular Flow Diagram
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Disposable Income
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Savings
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Expenditure(E)= Income(I)
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Labor Force
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Population is divided into two groups: Labor force participants and non-participants.
The labor Force includes all persons over age sixteen who are either working for pay or actively seeking paid employment>>participants
Non-Participants>> thos not of age or not actively seeking work
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Unemployment Rate
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number of unemployed people/labor force
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Discouraged Workers
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An individual who is not actively seeking employment but would look for or accept a job if one were available.
Not counted in the labor force/ official unemployed.
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Underemployment
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exists when people seeking full-time paid employment work only part-time or employed at jobs below their capability.
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Seasonal unemployment
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The unemployment due to seasonal changes in employment or labor supply. Common in construction, tourism industries, Etc.
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Frictional unemployment
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The brief periods of unemployment experienced by people moving between jobs or into labor market.
(society depends on these folks, have necessary skills, short job searches.
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Structural unemployment
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unemployment caused by a mismatch between the skills (or location) of available jobs.
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Cyclical unemployment
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unemployment attributable to the lack of jobs- that is, to an adequate level of aggregate demand>> reflects business cycles conditions.
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Natural Rate of unemployment
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Long term rate of unemployment that is determined by structural forces in labor and product markets:consists of frictional and structural components only.
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Division of Labor
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Division of Labor
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