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Who are always not included in the labor force?

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  • <16 years old
  • Retired
  • Not seeking work
  • Institutionalized
  • Active Military
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Frictional Unemployment

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  • in transition between jobs

- don’t have information needed to get matched up with an employer

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Structural Unemployment

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  • the need for their prior types of jobs have been greatly reduced or eliminated
  • they lack the skills for currently available jobs
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Seasonal Unemployment

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  • those out of work because their jobs regularly and predictably vary by the season of the year
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Cyclical Unemployment

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Those not employed because of a downturn in the business cycle

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Unemployment rate

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  • % of the labor force not employed

* not the % of the population not employed

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Natural unemployment rate

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those unemployed due to frictional, structural, and seasonal reasons

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When does full employment occur?

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  • when there is no cyclical unemployment

* frictional, structural, and seasonal are not counted as unemployed in measuring full employment

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Aggregate demand

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  • total spending in economy

- sum of all market demand curves

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What is aggregate demand the sum of?

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consumption spending, investment, government spending, and net exports (net imports would be subtracted)

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Consumption spending

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spending by individuals on goods and services

  • does not include new housing (that is investment)
  • primarily determined by personal disposable income (PDI)
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Consumption function

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measures the relationship between disposable income (PDI) and consumption spending (CS)

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Average Propensity to Consume (APC)

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  • measures the % of disposable income (PDI) spent on consumption (CS)
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Average Propensity to Save (APS)

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Reciprocal of APC

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Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC)

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Measures the change in consumption spending as a % of the change in disposable income

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Investment spending

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Spending on capital items including -

  • residential construction
  • non-residential construction
  • business property, plant, and equipment
  • business inventory
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Government spending

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  • purchase of goods and services by all levels of the government
  • excludes transfer payments - not for goods or services
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Discretionary fiscal policy

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government changes to spending or taxation to impact aggregate demand

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Multiplier Effect equation

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change in spending x [1/(1 - MPC)]

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Aggregate Supply

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Total output of goods and services produced in the economy at different price levels

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Classical Aggregate Supply Curve

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  • completely vertical supply curve
  • no change in output as price increases at full employment
  • may be associated with the very short-term
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Keynesian Aggregate Supply Curve

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  • horizontal up to the output at full employment, then slopes upward
  • increasing supply at a price until full employment, then increased supply only with increased price
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Conventional Aggregate Supply Curve

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  • continuous positive slope that is steeper for output after full employment
  • at full employment, prices increase proportionately faster than output supplied
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Aggregate Equilibrium

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aggregate demand = aggregate supply

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Business Cycles
cumulative fluctuations up and down in aggregate real gross domestic product * recur over time * no consistent pattern of length (duration) or magnitude
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What are common causes for changes in the business cycle?
- changes in interest rate - changes in taxes - changes in outlook and confidence
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Business cycle indicators
changes in specific measures of economic activity that are associated with changes in overall business cycle
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leading economic indicators
changes in measures that occur before changes in business cycle * i.e. consumer expectations, initial unemployment claims, and stock prices
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lagging economic indicators
changes in measures that occur after changes in business cycle *i.e. relationship between inventory and sales, length of unemployment, and amount of commercial loans outstanding
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Consumer Price Index (CPI)
CPI relates price of a basket of goods and services during a period to price of the basket of consumer goods and services in a prior base period
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Wholesale Price Index (WPI)
relates price of basket of raw materials, intermediate materials and finished goods at the wholesale level during a period to price of basket in a prior base period
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Deflator
- relates nominal GDP to real GDP | - GDP deflator = nominal GDP/real GDP X 100
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Inflation
rate of increase in the price level
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Deflation
rate of decrease in the price level
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Demand induced (demand-pull) inflation
Aggregate spending for goods and services exceeds productive capacity of the economy at full employment
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Supply induced (cost-push) inflation
Increases in the cost of inputs result in higher prices passed on to end user
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What are the three functions of money?
- medium of exchange - measure of value - store of value
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M1 measure of money
- narrowest definition of money - includes - paper and coin currency held outside banks, and check-writing deposits in banks (funds that can be accessed using checks)
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M2 measure of money
- includes all items of M1 plus - savings deposits, money-market deposits, certificates of deposit less than $100,000, and individual-owned money-market mutual funds
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M3 measure of money
- includes items in M2 plus - certificates of deposit greater than $100,000, and institutional-owned money-market mutual funds
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Fed Board of Governors
7 member policy making body of the Federal Reserve System
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Fed Open-Market Committee
12 member body responsible for implementing monetary policy to effect money supply through open-market operations
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Monetary Policy
- managing the money supply to achieve national economic objectives, including: economic growth and price level stability
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How does the Fed exercise monetary policy?
reserve requirement, open market operations, and the discount rate
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Fed Reserve Requirement
- percent of loans made by banks that must be held in reserve
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Fed Open Market Operations
Fed buying and selling U.S. Treasury debt with member banks
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Fed Discount Rate
Interest rate member banks pay when borrowing from the Fed - increasing discount rate = reduced borrowing and reduced money supply - decreasing discount rate = increased borrowing and increased money supply
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Absolute Advantage
ability of a country, business or individual to produce a good or provide a service more efficiently than another entity
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Comparative Advantage
Ability of one country, business or individual to produce a good or provide a service with lower opportunity cost than another entity
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Porter's Four Attributes of National Advantage
- factor endowment - advantages in factors of production (land, labor, infrastructure, etc.) - demand conditions - nature of domestic demand for a good or service - relating and supporting industries - extent to which supplier and related industries are internationally competitive - firm strategy, structure, and rivalry - how entities are created, organized, managed and how they compete
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