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Macroeconomics
6,7,8,9,10
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Economics
Undergraduate 2
10/19/2015

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Term
Labor force equation
Definition
Employed + unemployed
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Unemployment rate equation
Definition
# of unemployed/labor force * 100
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Labor force participation rate equation
Definition
Labor force/population * 100
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Actual unemployment
Definition
Natural+cyclical
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Natural unemployment
Definition
Frictional + structural
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GDP per capita
Definition
Nominal GDP/ population
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GDP equation
Definition
GDP=C+I+G+(x-m)
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Net capital inflow
Definition
Imports-exports
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Value added equation
Definition
Sale value -intermediate good value
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Investment spending equation
Definition
National savings + net capital inflow
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Value price index equation
Definition
Cost of market basket in given year/ 100 * 100
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Rate of inflation equation
Definition
Price index year 2-price index year 1/price idea year 1*100
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GDP Deflator equation
Definition
Nominal GDP/100 * 100
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GDP Per Capita equation
Definition
GDP/ population
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2nd year nominal GDI equation
Definition
Year 2 prices * year 2 quantity
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Base year nominal GDP
Definition
Base year price*base quantity
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Real GDP base year equation
Definition
Year 2 prices*base quantity
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Real GDP year 2 equation
Definition
Year 2 prices * year 2 quantity
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Self regulating economy
Definition
Problems such as unemployment are resolved without government intervention, through the working of the invisible hand
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Keynesian economics
Definition
A depressed economy is the result of inadequate spending
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Monetary policy
Definition
Used changes in the quantity of money to alter interest rate and affect overall spending
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Fiscal policy
Definition
Used changes in government spending and taxes to affect overall spending
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Recession
Definition
Also known as contractions, are periods of economic downturn when output and employment are falling
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Expansion
Definition
Also known as recoveries, are periods of economic upturn when output and employment are rising
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Business cycle
Definition
Is the short run alternation between recession and expansions
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Business cycle peak
Definition
The point at which economy turns from expansion to recession
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Business cycle trough
Definition
The point at which the economy turns from recession to expansion
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Long run economic growth
Definition
Is the sustained upward trend in the economy's output over time. Long run economic growth per capita is a sustained upward trend in output per person - key to higher wages and a rising standard of living
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Inflation
Definition
A rising overall level of prices
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Deflation
Definition
A falling of overall level of prices
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Price stability
Definition
When the overall level of prices changes slowly or not at all
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Open economy
Definition
An economy that trades goods and services with other countries
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Trade deficit
Definition
When the value of goods and services bought from foreigners is more than the value of goods and services it sells to them
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Trade surplus
Definition
When the value of goods and services bought from foreigners is less than the value of the goods and services it sells to them
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National income and product accounts (national accounts)
Definition
Keep track of the flows of lonely between different sectors of the economy
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Consumer spending
Definition
Household spending on goods and services
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Stock
Definition
Share in the ownership of a company held by a shareholder
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Bond
Definition
Borrowing in the form of an IOU that pays interest
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Government transfers
Definition
Payments by the government to individuals for which no good or service is provided in return
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Disposable income
Definition
income plus government transfers - taxes. The total amount of household income available to spend on consumption and to save
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Private savings
Definition
Disposable income - consumer spending. Disposable income that is not spent on consumption
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Financial markets
Definition
The banking, stock, and bond markets which channel private savings and foreign lending into investment spending, government borrowing and foreign borrowing
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Government borrowing
Definition
The total amount of funds borrowed by federal state and local governments in the financial markets
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Exports
Definition
Goods and services sold to other countries
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Imports
Definition
Goods and services purchased from other countries
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Inventories
Definition
Stocks of goods and raw materials held to facilitate business operations
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Investment spending
Definition
Spending on productive physical capital such as Mahoney and construction of buildings and on changes to inventories
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Final goods and services
Definition
Goods and services sold to the final or end user
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Intermediate goods and services
Definition
Goods and services bought from one form by another firm that are inputs for production of final goods and services
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Gross domestic product
Definition
The total value of final goods and services produced in the economy during a given year
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Aggregate spending
Definition
The sum of consumer spending, investment spending, government purchases of goods and services and exports minus imports is the total spending on domestically produced final goods and services in the economy
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Value added
Definition
Value of sales - value of its purchases of intermediate goods and services
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Net exports
Definition
The difference between the value of exports and imports
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Aggregate output
Definition
Economies total quantity of output of final goods and services
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Market basket
Definition
Hypothetical set of consumer purchases of goods and services
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Price index
Definition
Measures the cost of purchasing a given market basket in a given year, where that cost is normalized so that it equals 100 in the selected base year
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Inflation rate
Definition
Price change per year in a price index typically this the consumer price index
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Consumer price index (CPI)
Definition
Measures the cost of the market basket of a typical urban American family
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Producer price index (PPI)
Definition
Measures changes in the prices of goods purchased by producers
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Employment
Definition
Number of people currently employed in the economy either full or part tome
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Unemployment
Definition
Number of people who are actively looking for work but aren't employed. This does not include marginally attached or discouraged
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Labor force
Definition
The sum of employment and unemployment
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Discouraged workers
Definition
Non working people who are capable of working but have given up looking for a job given the state of the job market.
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Marginally attached workers
Definition
Would like to be employed and have looked for a job in the recent past but are not currently looking for work
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Underemployment
Definition
Number of people who work part time because they cannot find full time jobs
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Job search
Definition
Workers spend time looking for employment are engaged in job search
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Frictional unemployment
Definition
Unemployment due to the time workers spend in job search
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Structural unemployment
Definition
More people are seeking jobs in a particular labor market than there are jobs available at the current wage rate even when the economy is at the work of the business
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Efficient wages
Definition
Wages that employers set above the equilibrium wage rate as an incentive for better employee performance
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Natural rate of unemployment
Definition
The unemployment rate that arises from the effects of frictional + structural unemployment
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Cyclical unemployment
Definition
Deviation of the actual rate of unemployment from the natural rate due to the downturns in the business cycle
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Real wage
Definition
Wage rate/price level
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Real income
Definition
Income/price level
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Menu cost
Definition
The real cost of changing a listed price
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Unit of account costs
Definition
Arise from the way inflation makes money a less reliable unit of measurement
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Nominal interest rate
Definition
The interest rate expressed in dollar terms
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Real interest rate
Definition
The nominal interest rate minus the rate of inflation
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Disinflation
Definition
The process of bringing the inflation rate down
Term
Rule of 70
Definition
Mathematical formula that tells us how long it takes real GDP per capita or any other variable that grows gradually over time to douvle
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Labor productivity
Definition
Sustained economic growth occurs only when the amount of output produced by the average worker increased steadily. The term labor productivity or productivity for short is used to refer either to output per worker or in some cases output per hour
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Physical capital
Definition
Consists of human made resources such as buildings and machines
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Human capital
Definition
The improvement in labor created by the education and knowledge embodied in the workforce
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Technology
Definition
An advance in the technical means of the production of goods and services
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Aggregate production function
Definition
Hypothetical function that shows how productivity, real GDP per worker, depends on the quantities of physical capital per worker and human capital per worker as well as the state of technology
Term
Growth accounting
Definition
Estimated the contribution of each major factor in the aggregate production function to economic growth
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Total factor productivity
Definition
The amount of output that can be achieved with a given amount of factor inputs
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R&D
Definition
Spending to create and implement new technologies
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Infrastructure
Definition
Roads, power lines, information networks, and other underpinnings for economic activity
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Convergence hypothesis
Definition
International differences in real GDP per capita tend to narrow over tome
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Sustainable
Definition
Long run growth that can continue in the face of limited supply of natural resources and the impact of growth in the environment
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Savings investment spending identity
Definition
Savings and investment spending are always equal for the economy as a whole
Term
Budget surplus
Definition
The difference between tax revenue and government spending when tax revenue exceeds government spending
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Budget deficit
Definition
He difference between tax revenue and government spending when government spending exceeds tax revenue
Term
Budget balance
Definition
The difference between tax revenue and government spending
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National savings
Definition
The sum of private savings and the budget balance is the total amount of savings generated within the economy
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Capital inflow
Definition
The total inflow to a country - outflow of funds out of country
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Loan able funds market
Definition
A hypothetical market that illustrates the market outcome of the demand for funds generated by the borrowers and he supply of funds provided by lenders
Term
Interest rate
Definition
The proportion of a loan that is charged as interest to the borrower typically expressed as an annual percentage of the loan outstanding
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Default
Definition
Occurs when a borrower fails to make payments as specified by the lab or bond contract
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Mutual fund
Definition
Financial intermediary that creates a stock portfolio and then resells shares of portfolio to individual investors
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Pension fund
Definition
Type of mutual fund that holds assets in order to provide retirement income to its members
Term
Random walk
Definition
The movement over time of an unpredictable variable
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