ECON 1010 Chapter Notes -Net Domestic Product, Environmental Quality, Potential Output

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Income flows from firms to factor markets to households: c represents consumption expenditures which flow from households to goods markets to firms. Combination of wages (plus benefits and pension contributions) All above factors are included in ofi (the income flow, y) Sum of all factor incomes is net domestic income at factor cost. Indirect taxes less subsidies are added to get from factor cost to market prices. Real gdp per person = real gdp/populaton. Tells us value of goods and services that the average person can enjoy often expressed as ratio living. By using real gdp we remove influence of rising prices and a rising cost of. Potential gdp is the value of all economy"s labour, capital, land and entrepreneurial ability when it is fully employed: to compare standard of living across countries. Two problems in using real gdp to compare:

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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.

An improvement in technology causes the production possibilities frontier (PPF) to

	shift to the right.
	pivot upward.
	shift to the left.
	pivot downward.

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Which of the following is not shown by the circular flow model?

	The flow of resources in one direction and money in the other
	The equality of aggregate spending and aggregate income
	The interaction of households, firms, and the government
	The total amount of goods and services the economy can produce

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Gross domestic product (GDP) is defined as

	the market value of all final goods and services produced in an economy in a given period of time.
	the market value of all consumption goods and services produced in an economy in a given period of time.
	the market value of all investment goods and services produced in an economy in a given period of time.
	the real value of all investment goods and services produced in an economy in a given period of time.

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Real GDP

	includes all domestic and foreign transactions.
	includes the dollar value of domestic transactions only.
	tries to isolate the effect of changing output, holding prices constant.
	measures GDP in terms of prices of goods and services produced.

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When economists talk about economic growth, they are usually referring to

	the percentage change in nominal GDP.
	the percentage change in real GDP.
	the percentage change in nominal investment.
	the percentage change in real investment.

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The Gross National Product (GNP) of the United States is equal to

A. the value of the total income received by all of the residents of the United States.

B. the value of final goods and services produced within the United States.

C. the value of the total income received by all households in the United States, after taxes are paid.

D. the value of final goods and services produced by U.S. factors of production.

If a large amount of production within a country takes place at foreign-owned facilities, then it is likely that the country's GDP will be (larger than/smaller than) GNP.

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ECON 1010 Chapter Notes -Net Domestic Product, Environmental Quality, Potential Output

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