ECN 600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Gross Domestic Product, Income Approach, Weighted Arithmetic Mean

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Gdp is published on a quarterly bases as part of the national income and product. Accounts (nipa): gross domestic product (gdp) the dollar value of final output produced. Intermediate goods a good that is produced and then used as an input to: three approaches of measuring gdp; product approach, expenditure approach, and the income approach. another production process. If we did not subtract the value of intermediate goods used in production, then we would be double counting. In the expenditure approach, we calculate gdp as total spending on all final goods and services production in the economy. We do not count spending on intermediate goods: total expenditure = c + i + g + nx. The income approach: to calculate gdp using the income approach, we add up all income received by economic agents contributing to production. Depreciation is taken out when we calculate profits, and so it needs to be added in again when we compute gdp.

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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) only measures the value of marketed goods and services for a country during a given period of time.

Is the GDP measure underestimating or overestimating national production and total income in the economy? Why?

What are the limitations of the GDP in measuring total output and national welfare? What products (services) are excluded from the GDP computation?

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Topic 1: GDP and Its Limitations

The national income accounts measure productivity, spending, and income; but these accounts were not designed to measure economic welfare. GDP only measures the value of marketed goods and services for a country during a given period of time. Goods and services that are not sold in markets, such as food produced and consumed at home and household articles, are not included in GDP. Discuss aspects of economic welfare ignored in GDP measurement.

Discussion Checklist:

A.) What are the limitations of the GDP in measuring total output and national welfare?

B.) What products (goods and services) are excluded from the GDP computation?

C.) What are the impacts of the shortcomings of the GDP as a measure of the national product and national welfare?

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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.

ECN 600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Gross Domestic Product, Income Approach, Weighted Arithmetic Mean

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