Economics 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Final Good, Transfer Payment, Intermediate Good

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Gdp: the market value of the final goods and services produced within a country in a. Market value: the prices at which items are traded in markets. Final goods and services: products that will be sold to ultimate user. Whether a food is an intermediate good or a final good depends on what it is used for, not what it is. Rising incomes and a rising value of production go together: increasing productivity. The total amount that buyers pay for the goods and services produced is aggregate expenditure. Depreciation: t(cid:28667)(cid:28664) (cid:28663)(cid:28664)(cid:28662)r(cid:28664)as(cid:28664) (cid:28668)n t(cid:28667)(cid:28664) valu(cid:28664) o(cid:28665) a (cid:28665)(cid:28668)rm"s (cid:28662)ap(cid:28668)tal t(cid:28667)(cid:28664) r(cid:28664)sults (cid:28665)rom w(cid:28664)ar an(cid:28663) t(cid:28664)ar and obsolescence, Gross investment: the total amount spent both buying new capital and replacing depreciated capital. Net investment: the amount by which the value of capital increases. Consumption expenditure: do not include the purchase of new homes. Government expenditure: does not include transfer payment. Purchase of assets that will be used to produce revenue.

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Calculate the missing data.

Calculate missing data from the table.

Income/Expenditure Flows	Amount (in billions)
Consumption expenditure	$7
Government expenditure	$5
Depreciation	$3
Net taxes	$2
Investment	$4
Net exports	$1
Expenditures
Income
GDP

Calculate the following.

Using the data from a partial set of national income and expenditure data, address the following:

Calculate gross domestic product (GDP) using the expenditure approach.

Determine net domestic product, gross national product (GNP), and statistical discrepancy.

Item	Amount in 2010 (in billions)
Government expenditure (G) =	$8
Consumption expenditure (C) =	$20
Investment (I) =	$5
Net exports (NX) =	$1.5
GDP (expenditure approach)=
Total wages =	$21
Net operating surplus =	$11
Net domestic product =
Indirect taxes minus subsidies =	$3.5
Capital consumption =	$2
GDP (income approach)=
Statistical discrepancy =
Net factor income from abroad =	$5.5
GNP =

Consider the tables.

Given production and price data below, address the following:

Calculate an economy's nominal GDP and real GDP.

In 2000:

Item	Quantity (millions)	Price ($/unit)	Expenditure (millions of $)
Socks	15	5	75
SIM cards	20	2	40
Defense Budget	9	5	45

Real/Nominal GDP = 160

In 2003:

Item	Quantity (millions)	Price ($/unit)	Expenditure (millions of $)
Socks	15	5	75
SIM cards	20	5	100
Defense Budget	20	10	200

Nominal GDP =

2003 Quantities valued at 2000 prices:

Item	Quantity (millions)	Price ($/unit)	Expenditure (millions of $)
Socks
SIM cards
Defense Budget

Real GDP =

Answer the following questions.

How do you measure GDP?

How do you measure real and nominal GDP?

How do you determine Consumer Price Index and what are its limitations?

Which of the following expenditures will be included in GDP which will be excluded from the calculation? Explain your answers.

Spare tires bought by Across America, a car rental company

Textbooks bought by college students

Cabinets purchased by a furniture store

A new car purchased by an NFL player

A cruise ship bought by Carnival

An improvement in technology causes the production possibilities frontier (PPF) to

	shift to the right.
	pivot upward.
	shift to the left.
	pivot downward.

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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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1. In the actual economy, households

a. spend all of their income.

b. divide their income among spending, taxes, and saving.

c. buy all goods and services produced in the economy.

d. Both (a) and (c) are correct.

2. Gross domestic product is defined as

a. the quantity of all final goods and services demanded within a country in a given period of time.

b. the quantity of all final goods and services supplied within a country in a given period of time.

c. the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time.

d. Both (a) and (b) are correct.

3. GDP adds together many different kinds of products into a single measure of the value of economic activity by using prices determined by

a. banks.

b. economists.

c. the government.

d. markets.

4. Over time, people have come to rely more on market-produced goods and less on goods that they produce for themselves. For example, busy people with high incomes, rather than cleaning their own houses, hire people to clean their houses. By itself, this change has

a. caused measured GDP to fall.

b. not caused any change in measured GDP.

c. caused measured GDP to rise.

d. probably changed measured GDP, but in an uncertain direction; the direction of the change depends on the difference in the quality of the cleaning that has resulted.

5. A steel company sells some steel to a bicycle company for $150. The bicycle company uses steel to produce a bicycle, which it sells for $250. Taken together, these two transactions contribute

a. $150 to GDP.

b. $250 to GDP.

c. between $250 and $400 to GDP, depending on the profit earned by the bicycle company when it sold the bicycle.

d. $400 to GDP.

6. The total sales of all firms in the economy for a year

a. equals GDP for the year.

b. is larger than GDP for the year.

c. is smaller than GDP for the year.

d. Any of the above is possible.

7. GDP is equal to

a. the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time.

b. Y.

c. C + I + G + NX.

d. All of the above are correct.

8. The consumption component of GDP includes spending on

a. durable goods and nondurable goods, but not spending on services.

b. durable goods and services, but not spending on nondurable goods.

c. nondurable goods and services, but not spending on durable goods.

d. durable goods, nondurable goods, and services.

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