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ECON 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gross Domestic Product, Business Cycle, Government Spending

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pinkwombat785
9 May 2016
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CSULB
Department
Economics
Course
ECON 100
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yamashiro

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Microeconomics: behavior of individual people, firms, and industries. Macroeconomics: study of the economy of an entire nation or society. Measuring the economy: economists measure the total output of an economy as a gauge of its overall health. An economy that produces a large amount of output is a healthy economy. If output falls for a certain period, there is something wrong in the economy. Sum of all the output from coffee shops, doc offices, and all other firms that produce goods and services within a nation"s borders. Why is gdp important indicator: measuring living standards. Gdp data tells us something about living standard. Higher gdp= we are doing better (used as measure of living standards) Gdp data is also used to measure economic growth: think of economic growth as changes in living standards over time, when economies grow, living standards rise. What does real mean in terms of gdp: real gdp is gdp adjusted for changes in prices.

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Related Questions

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) only measures the value of marketed goods and services for a country during a given period of time.

Is the GDP measure underestimating or overestimating national production and total income in the economy? Why?

What are the limitations of the GDP in measuring total output and national welfare? What products (services) are excluded from the GDP computation?

6)
 
An improvement in technology causes the production possibilities frontier (PPF) to
 
  shift to the right.
  pivot upward.
  shift to the left.
  pivot downward.

 

 

 
(7)
 
Which of the following is not shown by the circular flow model?
 
  The flow of resources in one direction and money in the other
  The equality of aggregate spending and aggregate income
  The interaction of households, firms, and the government
  The total amount of goods and services the economy can produce

 

 

 
(8)
 
Gross domestic product (GDP) is defined as
 
  the market value of all final goods and services produced in an economy in a given period of time.
  the market value of all consumption goods and services produced in an economy in a given period of time.
  the market value of all investment goods and services produced in an economy in a given period of time.
  the real value of all investment goods and services produced in an economy in a given period of time.

 

 

 
(9)
 
Real GDP
 
  includes all domestic and foreign transactions.
  includes the dollar value of domestic transactions only.
  tries to isolate the effect of changing output, holding prices constant.
  measures GDP in terms of prices of goods and services produced.

 

 

 
(10)
 
When economists talk about economic growth, they are usually referring to
 
  the percentage change in nominal GDP.
  the percentage change in real GDP.
  the percentage change in nominal investment.
  the percentage change in real investment.

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What is the market for factors of production?

  1. What is the market for factors of production?

    1. The market for factors of production is where households and firms interact to trade factors of production for factor payments. For example this is where people provide firms with labor and firms pay them with wages. 

  2. What is the money market?

    1. The money market is where households, firms, and the government may save and/or invest their money to earn interests. Money market includes banks, stock market, bonds market, and other financial institutions where economic actors can buy and sell financial assets to earn interests and/or dividends.

  3. Who are the three economic actors in the circular flow model?

    1. In a circular flow model, the three main economic actors are the households, firms, and the government. Households include the typical individual consumers. Firms include businesses and similar producers in the economy. Finally, the government refers to the whole government system from federal to local level.

  4. How is the national income of an economy determined?

    1. The national income of an economy is determined by measuring the total value of the output produced in an economy or the total income earned by the actors in the economy. In a circular flow model, we can see that the value of total output produced should equal the total value of income generated and earned in the economy. This is because every dollar spent by someone in the economy is received by another person in the economy as income.

  5. What is GDP?

    1. The gross domestic product or GDP represents the sum total of the value of the final goods and services produced within the economy for a given year. It is the most commonly used measure of its economy’s productivity and income.