Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Chapter 19, 20, and 21

Circular Flow Diagram-  represents transactions in an economy


Product Market-  place where goods and services are produced by businesses


Factor Market-  place where household sell resources and businesses buy resources


Firms-  organization that produces goods and services for sell


Household-  person or group of people that share their income



GDP- total final value of all good and services produced in country's borders within a given year


GNP-  total market value of all final goods and services by citizens of that country, on its land or foreign land


Included in GDP-  Personal Consumption Expenditures, Gross Private Domestic Investment, Government Spending, and Net Exports


What is NOT included in GDP-  Intermediate goods, used goods, purely financial transactions, illegal activity, unreported business activity, transfer payments, and non market activities


Calculating GDP


Expenditures Approach- add all spending on final good and services produced in a given year


Income Approach-  add up all the income that resulted by selling all final good and services produced in a given year


Compensation of Employees- includes wages, salaries, fringe benefits, social security contributions, and health & pinching plans


Rents- income of property owner


Interest-  Income from investments


Corporate Profits-  income of corporation's stock holders


Proprietor's Income- income of entrepreneurs or partners


Budget-  Governments purchase goods and service plus government transfer payments = government taxes and fee collection
Plus=Deficit
Negative=Surplus


Trade
Exports - Imports
Plus=Surplus
Negative=Deficit



National Income-  Compensation of employees + Rental Income + Interest Income + Corporate Profits + Proprietor's Income


National Income- GDP- Indirect Business Taxes - Depreciation - Net Foreign Factor Payment


Disposable Personal Income- National Income- Personal Household taxes + Government transfer payments

Rule Of  70- Used to determine how many years it will take for a value to double given a particular annual growth rate

GDP Deflator- price index used to adjust from nominal to real GDP= Nominal GDP over Real GDP times 100

- In the base year, GDP Deflator will always equal 100
- In years after the base year, GDP is greater than 100
- For years before the base year, GDP's is less than 100


Consumer Price Index (CPI)
-Most commonly used measurement of inflation
- Price of a market basket in a particular year over the price of the same market basket



GDP Deflator of current year minus old year divided by old year times 100

Unemployment- failure to use available resources, particularly labor to produce desired goods and services


Labor force/ - above 16 years of age   - able and willing to work


NOT in the Labor force/  - Military   - Mental Institutions  - Students  - homemakers  - retired
-  jail or in prison  - people who are not looking for a job


Unemployment Rate-  4 to 5% = Full Employment or Natural Rate of Unemployment


How to calculate the unemployment rate/   # of unemployed over labor force times 100




Types of Unemployment/

Frictional- searching for a job, in between jobs temporarily unemployed
- transferable skills

Structural- changes in the structure of the labor force make some skills obsolete
- workers have no transferable skills


Seasonal- due to the time of the year and nature of the job


Cyclical- unemployment that results from economic downturns
- as demand for goods and services fall, demand for labor falls, thus workers are laid off


Frictional + Structural = NRU

Full employment means NO Cyclical unemployment







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