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The Classical Long-Run Model
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Economics
Undergraduate 1
11/18/2009

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Term
classical model
Definition
a macroeconomic model that explains the long-run behavior of the economy
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market clearing
Definition
adjustment of prices until quantities supplied and demanded are equal
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labor demand curve
Definition
how many workers firms will want to hire at various wage rates
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labor supply curve
Definition
indicates how mnay ppl will want to work at different wages
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Aggregate production function
Definition
relationship showing how much total output can be produced with different quantities of labor, with quantities of all other resources held constant
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Say's Law
Definition
the idea that total spending will be sufficient to purchase the total output produced
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Planned Investment Spending
Definition

business purchases of plant and equipment

 

Ip=I-change in inventories

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Net Taxes
Definition
Total Tax Revenue-Transfers
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Disposable Income
Definition
total income- net taxes
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Household Saving

(s)

Definition
Disposable-C (consumption)
Term
Total Spending formula in the classical model
Definition
Total Spending= C+I(p)+G
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leakages
Definition
income earned, but not spent, by households during a given year
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injections
Definition

spending from sources other than households

 

 

(goverment purchases of goods and services & planned investment spending)

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Loanable Funds Market
Definition
the market in which households make their saving available to borrowers
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budget deficit
Definition

the excess of government purchases over net taxes

 

 

G-T

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budget surplus
Definition

the excess of net taxes over goverment purchases

 

T-G

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Business demand for funds curve
Definition
indicates the level of investment spending firms plan at various interest rates
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Government demand for funds curve
Definition
indicates the amount of government borrowing at various interest rates
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total demand for funds curve
Definition
indicates the total amount of borrowing at verious interest rates
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fiscal policy
Definition
a change in government purchases or net taxes designed to change total output
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demand-side effects
Definition
macroeconomic policy effects on total output that work through changes in total spending
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crowding out
Definition
a decline in one sector's spending caused by an increase in some other sector's spending
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complete crowding out
Definition
a dollar-for-dollar decline in one sector's spending caused by an increase in some other sector's spending
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