ECN 204 Lecture Notes - Japanese Yen, Real Interest Rate, Tim Hortons

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Closed economy: an economy that does not interact with other economies in the world. Open economy: an economy that interacts freely with other economies around the world. Exports: goods and services that are produced domestically and sold abroad. Imports: goods and services that are produced abroad and sold domestically. Net exports: the value of nation"s exports minus the value of its imports; also called the trade balance. Trade balance: the value of a nations exports minus the value of its imports; also called net exports. Trade surplus: an excess of exports over imports. Trade deficit: an excess of imports over exports. Balanced trade: a situation in which exports equal imports. Factors that influence a country"s exports, imports and net exports. Tastes of consumers for domestic and foreign goods. Prices of goods at home and abroad. Exchange rates at which people can use domestic currency to buy foreign currencies. Cost of transporting goods from country to country.

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An economy with zero net exports is described below:

C	= 100 + 0.6 (Y 'T)
I ^p	= 70
G	= 120
NX	= 0
T	= 150
The multiplier in this economy is 2.5.

A. Find short-run equilibrium output.

Instruction: Enter your response as an integer value.

Short-run equilibrium output: .

B. Economic recovery abroad increases the demand for the country's exports; as a result, NX rises to 80.

Instruction: Enter your response as an integer value.

Short-run equilibrium output (Click to select)decreases/ increases to ________ .

C. Assume that foreign economies are slowing, reducing the demand for the country's exports so that NX = -80. (A negative value of net exports means that exports are less than imports.)

Instruction: Enter your response as an integer value.

Short-run equilibrium output (Click to select)increases/decreases to ___________ .

D. Which of the following best describes the tendency of recessions and expansions to spread across countries?

1. Lower planned aggregate spending in one nation will reduce the amount of goods it exports abroad, thereby lowering the value of imports for its trading partners, which will reduce its short-term equilibrium output as well.

2. Lower planned aggregate spending abroad means that fewer goods will be exported from a specific nation, leaving more goods available for domestic consumption (C) in that nation, which will increase its short-term equilibrium output.

3. Lower planned aggregate spending abroad will reduce the amount of investment that flows into domestic industries from other countries, thereby reducing domestic short-term equilibrium output.

4. Lower planned aggregate spending in a nation means fewer imports of foreign goods, thereby reducing the short-term equilibrium output of its trading partners through lower net export (NX) values in those nations.

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An open economy interacts with the rest of the world through its involvement in world markets for goods and services and world financial markets. Although it can often result in an imbalance in these markets, the following identity must remain true:

Net Capital OutflowNet Capital Outflow

= =

Net ExportsNet Exports

In other words, if a transaction directly affects the left side of this equation, then it must also affect the right side. The following problem will help you understand why this identity must hold.

Suppose you are a software engineer living in the United States, and you just sold your latest product to a Russian consumer for RUB 7,000.

Determine the effects of this transaction on exports, imports, and net exports in the U.S. economy, and enter your results in the following table. If the direction of change is "No change," enter "0" in the Magnitude of Change column.

Hint: The magnitude of change should always be positive, regardless of the direction of change.

Increase/no change/decrease

Imports

Increase/no change/decrease

Net Exports

Increase/no change/decrease

Because of the identity equation that relates to net exports, the in U.S. net exports is matched by in U.S. net capital outflow. Which of the following is an example of how the United States might be affected in this scenario? Check all that apply.

You store the rubles in your safety deposit box at home.

You purchase RUB 7,000 worth of stock in a Russian corporation.

You buy RUB 7,000 worth of Russian bonds.

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I need help right now, please

1- Goods that are not sold during the year are included as part of that year's investment in calculating GDP.
A- True
B- False

2- When the nominal GDP has increased in the United States, we know that:

A- the U.S. price level has increased
B- the U.S. price level has decreased.
C- U.S. output of goods and services has increased.
D- Either the U.S. output of goods and services or the price level has increased.
E- Both the U.S. output of goods and services and the price level have increased.

3- Fill in the blank: GDP is the total value of ________ produced for the marketplace during a given year, within the nation's borders

A- all goods
B- all goods and services
C- all final goods
D- all final goods and services
E- all final and intermediate goods and services

4- Structural unemployment is considered a microeconomic problem.

A- True
B- False

5- The unemployment rate in the United States is defined as the number of unemployed divided by _____.
A- the U.S. population
B- the number of employed plus the number of unemployed
C- the U.S. population over the age of 16
D- the number of employed
E- the number of employed minus the number of unemployed

6- If Americans buy $500 billion worth of foreign goods and services, and foreigners buy $200 billion worth of American goods and services, then net exports for the United States are equal to _____.
A. $100 billion
B. $200 billion
C. -$300 billion
D. $500 billion
E. $700 billion

7- Discouraged workers are people who used to work, but no longer want a job.

A- True
B- False

8- In the expenditure approach, GDP is equal to _____.

A. C + I + G + exports - imports

B. C + I + G

C. C + I + G + exports

D. C + I + G + imports

E. C + I + G + exports + imports

9- U.S. GDP measures the production of goods and services by Americans, regardless of which country they reside in when they produce those goods and services.

A- True
B- False

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