ECO 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Gdp Deflator, Gross Domestic Product, Canada Pension Plan

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Microeconomics: the study of how individuals and how firms make decisions and how they interact with one another in markets. Macroeconomics: the study of economy-wide phenomena, including inflation, unemployment, and economic growth. Gross domestic product (gdp): measures the total income of a nation; the most closely watched economic statistic because it is the best measure of a society"s economics well- being. Gdp is the market value of all goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time. Gdp is the market value : gdp adds together many different kinds of productivity into a single measure of the value of economic activity, to do this, it uses market prices. Because market prices measure the amount people are willing to pay for different goods, they reflect the value of those goods. Of all economy"s stock of housing: there are some products, however, that gdp excludes because measuring them is so difficult.

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The economy's income and expenditure The following diagram presents a circular-flow model of a simple economy. The outer set of arrows (shown in green) shows the flow of dollars, and the inner set of arrows (shown in red) shows the corresponding flow of inputs and outputs.

Based on this model, households earn income when ________ purchase _________ in markets for factors of production.

(i) firms; labor and capital

(ii) households; goods and services

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What is the market for factors of production?

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

A. Based on the model, firms earn revenue when ______________(firms, households) purchase ___________(goods and services, labor and capital) in markets for goods and services.

B. Suppose Kate earns $800 per week working as a doctor for the Medical Clinic. She uses $9 to order a mojito cocktail at Little Havana. Little Havana pays Hubert $300 per week to wait tables. Hubert uses $175 to purchase medical services from the Medical Clinic.

a. Identify whether each of the following events in the scenario occurs in the market for factors of production or the market for goods and services.

Event	The market for Factors of Production	The market for goods and services
Kate spends $9 to order a mojito cocktail.
Hubert spends $175 to purchase medical services for the Medical Clinic.
Hubert earns $300 per week working for Little Havana.

b. Which of the elements of this scenario represent a flow from a firm to a household? This could be a flow of dollars, inputs, or output.

Kate's labor, The Mojito Kate receives, The $175Hubert's spend to purchase Medical services from the Medical Clinic.

c. The actual economy is more complicated than the one illustrated in the previous circular-flow diagram of a simple economy. True/False.

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