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EC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Counting Measure, Gdp Deflator, Environmental Quality

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Chapter 20: measuring naional income jan. 7, 2016. If all producion was sold and consumed, gdp would be easy to measure. Outputs of one company are inputs to another. Measure value of output counts some output more than one. To avoid double couning measure value added by all irms. Value added is sales revenue cost of intermediate goods. Value added is equal to wages paid to workers plus proits paid to owners. Total value added is a measure of total output. Gdp is the total value of inal goods and services produced. Equals the value of expenditure on output. Also equals the income generated by producing that output. Producion, expenditure and income are all equal by deiniion. Consumpion expenditure: goods and services sold to inal users. Investment expenditure: goods not for current consumpion, inventory, plant/equipment, housing. Government purchases: current expenditure, government investment. Net exports: total exports minus total imports, count goods and services.

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Intermediate goods are goods and services that are purchased for resale or for further processing or manufacturing. Final goods are consumer goods, capital goods, and services that are purchased by their final users, rather than for resale or for further processing or manufacturing. Including the value of intermediate goods in the measure of real GDP would amount to multiple counting, and therefore distort the value of GDP. Value added is the market value of a firm’s output less the value of the inputs the firm has bought from others.

Using the table below, calculate the total sales values, value-added, and fill in the missing boxes. The product is assembled for sale is a fancy wool suit.

Stages of Production Sales Value of Materials or Product Value Added
Β  $0 Β 
Firm A: Sheep Ranch Β  $120
Firm B: Wool Processor $180 Β 
Firm C: Suit Manufacturer $220 Β 
Firm D: Clothing Wholesaler Β  $50
Firm E: Retail Clothier (Market) Β  $80
Β  Total Sales Value Β  Β 
Β  Total Value Added Β  Β 

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The table below shows the price of inputs and the price of outputs at each step in the production process of making a shirt. Assume that each of these steps takes place within the country.

Cotton farmer Fabric maker Sewing and printing
Inputs $0 $1.10 $3.50
Value of output $1.10 $3.50 $18.00

a. Using the standard expenditure method, the total contribution of this shirt to GDP is $_____.

b. If we use a value-added method (i.e., summing the value-added by producers at each step of the production process, equal to the price of inputs minus the price of outputs), the contribution of this shirt to GDP is $_____.

c. If we mistakenly added the price of both intermediate and final outputs without adjusting for value-added, we would find that this shirt contributes $_____ to GDP and this overestimates the true contribution by $_____.

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.