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Macroeconomics Final - Ch. 32
Definitions from the Ragan Lipsey Canadian Macroeconomics book
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Undergraduate 1
04/14/2011

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Debt-Service Payments
Definition
Payments that represent the interest owed on a current stock of debt
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Budget Deficit
Definition
Any shortfall of current revenue below current expenditure
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Government Debt
Definition
The outstanding stock of financial liabilities for the government, equal to the accumulation of past budget deficits
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Budget Surplus
Definition
Any excess of current revenue over current expenditure
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Primary Budget Deficit
Definition
The difference between the government's overall budget deficit and its debt-service payments
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Budget Deficit Function
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A relationship that plots, for a given fiscal policy, the government's budget deficit as a function of the level of real GDP
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Cyclically Adjusted Deficit (CAD)
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An estimate of what the government budget deficit would be if real GDP were equal to Y*; sometimes called a structural deficit
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Crowding Out
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The offsetting reduction in private expenditure caused by the rise in interest rates that follows an expansionary fiscal policy
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