CAS EC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Autarky, Consumption Function, Equation

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Asumption: production=sell (cid:523)0 inventory inestments(cid:524, constant price, short run, closed economy. When economists think about year-to-year movements in economic activity, they focus on the interactions among production, income, and demand: Changes in income lead to changes in the demand for goods. Changes in the demand for goods lead to changes in production. Changes in production lead to changes in income. Z c + i + g + x im. The above identity defines the total demand for goods (z) as consumption, plus investment, plus government, plus export, minus imports. In a closed economy (x = im = 0): Consumption (c) is a function of disposable income (y. Assume that the consumption function is a linear relation with two parameters, c. 0 is the propensity to consume. is what people would consume if their disposable income equals zero. 0 reflect changes in consumption for a given level of disposable income.

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