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Depreciation exceeds domestic investment
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Net investment is negative
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Real GDP measures
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current output at base year prices
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Difference between real and nominal GDP
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Real GDP has been adjusted for changes in the price level
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The GDP tends to
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understate economic welfare because it does not take into account increase in leisure
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GDP
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monetary value of all final goods and services produced by a nation's economy during a year
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example of an investment according to economists
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construction of a new computer chip factory by Intel
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Find Net Exports
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(consumer expenditures + gov. purchases + gross private domestic investments) - GDP
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When GDP is less than Net Exports
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Net exports are negative
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consumer price index attempts to measure changes in
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the price of a select marker basket of goods and services
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A fear of unwanted price wars may explain why many firms are reluctant to
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reduce prices when a decline in aggregate demand occurs
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the foreign purchases effect suggest that an increase in Japanese price level relative to other countries will
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increase Japanese imports and decrease Japanese exports
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Which would most likely decrease aggregate demand
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an increase in person income tax rates
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the slope the immediate-short-run aggregate supply curve is based on the assumption that
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both input and output prices are fixed
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A decline in the quantity of real output demanded along the aggregate demand curve is a result of
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Increase in the price level
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the economy experiences an increase in the price level and a decrease in real domestic output when
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input prices have increased
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when real domestic output from producers is greater than real domestic output desired by purchasers there will be a
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surplus and the price level will fall
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the size of the MPC is assumed to be
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greater than zero, but less than one
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Find the expected rate of return
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(additional revenue - costs)/costs
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If business taxes are reduced and the real interest rate increases
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the level of investment spending might either increase or decrease
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multiplier effect
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an increase in investment can cause the GDP to change by a larger amount.
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when disposable income decreases, consumption..
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and savings both decrease
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if consumption schedule shifts downward and the shift was not cause by a tax change, then what happens to the saving schedule
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it will shift upwards
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What would shift the consumption schedule upward
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an increase in wealth
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there is an inverse relationship between the rate of interest and the level of
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investment spending (is suggested by the investment-demand curve)
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What would decrease investment demand
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an increase in the cost of acquiring capital goods
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the greater the MPS, the..
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smaller the increase in income would be.(which results from an increase in the MPC)
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What is a demand factor in economic growth
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an increase in total spending in the economy
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The entry of women into the workforce since 1960 resulted in
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a shift outward in the production possibilities curve
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a decline in a nation's rate of productivity growth will
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slow the growth of the standard of living
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Rule of 70 (doubling time)
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70/annual growth (%)
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Does the real GDP per capita grow faster or slower than the real GDP
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it can grow either slower or faster than the real GDP
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growth is advantageous to a nation because it
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lessens the burden of scarcity
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Economists believe that the recent increase in the average US productivity growth rate may have been causes by
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increased entrepreneurial activity, application of information technology and global competition
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Critics of economic growth
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argue that economic growth dos not resolve socioeconomic problems such as an unequal distribution of income and wealth.
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Real Gross Domestic Product
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will increase if there is an increase in the level of output
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if real GDP increases by 5% while population of country increases by 7% then.
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output person necessarily decreases
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Best example of financial investment
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a retiree purchases Google stock
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the word "shocks" refers to
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situations where firms' expectations are unment
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Higher oil prices are most likely to lead to
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a negative supply shock
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the business cycle depicts
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short-run fluctuations in output and employment
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About advanced economics
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Economies experience a positive growth trend over the long run, but experience significant variability in the long run
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Before the period of economic growth
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rates of population growth virtually match rates of output growth
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Difference between financial investment and economic investment
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Financial investment refers to the purchase of assets for financial gain, economic investment refers to the purchase of newly created capital goods
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if an economy wants to increase its current level of investment, it must
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sacrifice current consumption
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find APC
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Consumption/Output (DI=GDP)
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find APS
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Saving/Output
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find MPC
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Change in Consumption/Change in Income
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find MPS
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Change in Savings/Change in Income
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MPS +MPC = ?
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1
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Breakeven point on a table is at
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savings is 0
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DI = _ +_
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Consumption +Saving
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find unemployment rate
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(unemployed/labor force) x 100
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frictional unemployment
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short term, searching for job in the near future
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structural unemployment
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long term, want to work but doesn't have the skills or experience
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cyclical unemployment
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losing jobs due to economic fluctuations
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Full employment
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only fictional and structural
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Demand pull
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excess of total spending, increase in aggregated deamand
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cost push
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rising per unit cost of production, increase in aggregated supply
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monetary policy
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government spending
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fiscal policy
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taxes
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discretionary (active)
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eliminate recession gap
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expansionary
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increase spending, lower taxes
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contractionary
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decrease spending, increase taxes
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progressive tax
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rises with GDP (tax rev/GDP)
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proportional
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avg. tax remains constant
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regressive
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avg. tax decreases as GDP increases
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Aggregate demand has a downward slope because
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when price falls people buy more
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consumer expectations
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when people expect their income to rise
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household borrowing
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can increase their consumption spending by borrowing
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Personal taxes
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reduction in personal income tax rates rise the take-home income which increases consumer purchases at each possible price level
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An increase in money supply (AD questions)
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lowers interest rate, increases investment and AD
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government spending increases (AD questions)
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shifts AD curve to the right
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Aggregates supply in the short run
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direct relationship between price level and the amount of the real output
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determinants of aggregate demand
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change in input price, change in productivity, change in legal-institutional environment,