ECON 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Counting Cars, Accounting, Gdp Deflator

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What is gross domestic product (gdp), how is gdp related to a nation"s total income and spending, what are the components of gdp, how is gdp corrected for inlation, does gdp measure society"s well-being, gross domestic product. You can"t compare apples and oranges. if an apple costs twice as much as an orange, then it contributes twice as much to gdp. The study of the economy as a whole: macroeconomics, income and expenditure. Gross domestic product (gdp) measures total income of everyone in the economy. Gdp also measures total expenditure on the economy"s output of g&s: for the economy as a whole income equals expenditure because every dollar a buyer spends is a dollar of income for the seller, the circular-flow diagram. Illustrates gdp as spending, revenue, factor payments, and income. Keep an eye on gdp it shows up: firms. Buy/hire factors of production, use them to produce goods and services. The government: what the diagram omits, gdp is

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Which of the following statements about GDP is correct

A) Money continuously flows from households to firms and then back to households, and GDP measures this flow of money

B) GDP measures two things at once: the total income of everyone in the economy and the total expenditure on the economy’s output of goods and services.

C) While not perfect, GDP is generally regarded as the best single measure of a society’s economic well-being.

D) All of the above are correct.

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Question 1 Gross domestic product (GDP) measures the economy's production of

A) final goods and services.

B) intermediate goods.

C) consumer goods and services.

D) capital goods.

Question 2 Because GDP is measured in dollars per year, GDP is called a

A) stock.

B) flow.

C) cycle.

D) chain.

Question 3 Which of the following would not be included in the gross private domestic investment (I) category of GDP?

A) A retailer's additions to its inventories.

B) A bakery's purchase of a new oven.

C) A trader's purchase on NASDAQ stocks.

D) Newly built residential construction.

Question 4 Which of the following government payments would be included in the government consumption expenditures and gross investment (G) category of GDP?

A) A firefighter's monthly paycheck.

B) A retired grandmother's Social Security check.

C) A retired colonel's veteran's benefits.

D) A laid-off auto worker's unemployment conpensation check.

Question 5 The largest component in the income approach to measuring GDP is

A) compensation of employees.

B) rents.

C) profits.

D) net interest.

Question 6 Which approach to calculating GDP attempts to measure employee compensation, rents, profits, and net interest?

A) The circular-flow approach.

B) The product-market approach.

C) The income approach.

D) The expenditure approach.

Question 7 In recent years, people have benefited from greater amounts of leisure time. This trend

A) has caused GDP to rise.

B) has caused GDP to fall.

C) made GDP fluctuate randomly.

D) is not accounted for in the GDP statistic.

Question 8 National income (NI) is calculated by adjusting GDP for

A) depreciation of capital.

B) investment and net exports.

C) Social Security insurance contributions and transfer payments.

D) corporate and personal income taxes.

Question 9 If an economy's real GDP has increased, we can conclude that the economy

A) is inflationary.

B) has increased its production.

C) suffers from recession.

D) needs a tax cut.

Question 10 In the circular flow model, investment, government spending, and exports are classified as

A) injections.

B) leakages.

C) transfers.

D) consumption expenditures.

If an economy's GDP falls, then it must be the case that the economy's

A. Income and saving fall

B. Income and market value of all products both fall.

C. Income falls and the market value of all production rises.

d.Income rises and the market value of all production falls.

2. Gross Domestic product measures

a. Income and expenditure.

B. Income

c. Expenditure.

d. Neither.

3. If all quantities produced in the united states rise by 13.4% and all prices fall by 13.4% which of the following occurs?

Does Real GDP rise or fall? Does the nominal GDP rise or fall?

4. Which of the following does not add to US GDP?

a. The federal gov. Sends a social security check to your grandmother.

b. CIty of new york pays a salary to policemen.

c. Air France buys a plane from Boeing, the US aircraft manufacturer.

5. IS the best single measure of a society's economic well-being the unemployment rate or the GDP?

6. Keynesian economics was developed by John Keynes in response to:

A. The great recession.

b. The great depression.

C. Out of control gov. spending.

17. For an economy as a whole,

a. Wages must equal profit.

b. consumption must equal income.

c. Income must equal expenditure.

d. Consumption must equal saving.

8. As in the case f Ireland, Keynesian economics does not tend to work in countries that:

a. Are large and self-sustaining.

b. Are small and insulated.

c. Are medium-sized with good governments.

d. Are smaller and are open to free (ish) trade.

e. Are large and have free trade.

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