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Financial shocks

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any change in borrowing conditions that affect the real interest rate (shifts MP curve)

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Spending shocks

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any change in aggregate expenditure at a given real interest rate and income (shifts IS curve)

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Supply shocks

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any change in production costs that leads suppliers to change the prices they charge at any given level of output (shifts the Phillips curve)

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Monetary policy

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when the fed reserve raises or lowers the risk-free real interest rate (shifts MP curve)

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Financial market risks

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any change that makes banks more reluctant to lend money at a given interest rate will raise the risk premium and shift MP curve up

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Three causes of inflation

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Expected, Demand pull (movement along the curve), cost push inflation (shift the curve)

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What does the Phillips curve show

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relationship between output gap and unexpected inflation

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What causes cost push inflation

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input price change, productivity, and exchange rate changes

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what is the multiplier

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the amount of GDP change as a result of an extra dollar of spending

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What affects the multiplier

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MPC and MPS

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MPS

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the proportion you spend when you receive an extra dollar

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MPS=

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1-MPC

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Multiplier equation

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1/1-MPC

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Social insurance

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refers to gov provided insurance against bad outcomes

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WHat do states provide

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health care, human services, and education

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Mandatory spending

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terms of spending written into legislation

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Discretionary spending

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spending that congress annually appropriates

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What do payroll taxes fund

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social insurance (applies only to earned income)

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earned income

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wages, net earnings from self-employment, bonuses, commission

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progressive tax

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more you earn the higher your taxes

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Automaatic stabilizers

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spending and tax programs that adjust as the economy expands and contracts without policymakers taking action

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Income tax

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tax on taxable income

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corporate tax

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taxes on business owners

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Where does fed gov revenue come from

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income, payroll, and corporate tax

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Sales tax
tax you pay on purchases, on total purchases (state and local)
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Excise tax
tax on specific products based on quantity (alcohol, gas)
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Property tax
% of value of property
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Regressive taxes
the higher the income the less fraction you pay in tax
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Marginal tax rate
the tax rate you pay if you earn an additional dollar
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Tax expenditures
special deductions, exemptions, or credits that lower your tax obligations to encourage you to engage in certain activities
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Examples of tax expenditures
American opportunity tax credit | Earned income tax
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Who do tax expenditures benefit and why?
The higher income group because they spend more on tax-preferred goods and services
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Fiscal policy
choices in spending and taxes to help stabilize the economy
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Expansionary fiscal policy
gov expanding the economy: more spending, lower taxes
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Contractionary fiscal policy
If the economy is overheating: less spending, higher taxes
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What is considered good fiscal policy?
Timely, targeted, temporary
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When was the Fed reserve created
by congress in 1913
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What does the fed reserve consist of?
board of governors and 12 federal reserve district banks
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What does the fed reserve do?
issues national currency and checks where your money comes from
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Important characteristics of the fed
- regionally diverse | independence with check and balances-- monetary policy is not influenced by political pressure
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FOMC or Federal Open Market Committee
The board of governors and the presidents of the fed districts meet to determine monetary policy
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WHat is discussed at an FOMC meeting?
- What is the forecast for the U.S. economy - What are the right policy choices given the economic output - How should the Fed Communicate its plan to the public
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What are the two policy goals of the Fed?
Price stability and Maximum sustainable employment
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WHy does the Fed focus on targeting inflation more than employment?
- More straightforward to influence inflation with interest rate - Inflation and unemployment interconnect
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Why not 0% inflation target?
- Inflation greases the wheels of the labor market-- allows firms not to cut wages - The fed can lower real interest rate by more - A 0% inflation rate runs the risk of deflation - Measured inflation might be overstated
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How does the fed choose interest rate
- Start with neutral real interest rate - Targets nominal interest rate to influence real interest rate - Compares inflation with target inflation - Looks at output gap
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Neutral real interest rate
real interest rate at which GDP is equal to potential GDP
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Forward guidance
providing information about the future course of monetary policy in order to influence market expectations of future interest rate
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Quantitative easing
purchasing large quantities of longer-term government bonds and other securities in an effort to lower long-term interest rates
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Lorenz curve
summarizes income distribution in graph form
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Gini coefficient
a single statistic that summarizes the degree of inequality described by the Lorenz curve
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Gini equation
Gini=A/(A+B)
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Gini coefficient perfectly equal
equal to zero (B takes over everything)
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Gini coefficient perfect inequality
A/A=1 the higher the gini the more inequality
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Intergeneration mobility
the extent to which economic status of children is independent of the economic status of their parents
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poverty rate
family income below the poverty line
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absolute poverty
judges the adequacy of resources relative to an absolute standard of living
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Relative poverty
judges poverty relative to the material living standard of your contemporary society
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means-tested
the eligibility of social safety nets determined by income-level
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Cost of redistribution
administrative cost reduced incentive to work bad actors (tax evasion and tax avoidance)
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Production possibility frontier
a way of modeling a resource constraint
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What causes a PPF to be bowed out
resources are not equally productive | diminishing return to production
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Utility function
measure of happiness with consumption
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Indifference curves
a curve where every bundle, you are indifferent to
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Rules of indifference curves
- must slope downwards-- must give up one good to obtain another - bowed in because of diminishing marginal utility - cannot cross because it violates non-satiation (having more of both goods is always better)
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Net government debt
debt the government owes to individuals businesses and other governments
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Importance of debt
- able to invest in future projects | - boost the economy when the economy is in a recession
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Main argument for budget balance
fiscal responsibility
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debt ceiling
a limit on how much total US debt the US gov could have
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Unfunded liabilities
a commitment to incur expenses in the future without a plan to pay for those expenses
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Why worry about debt
- slower economic growth due to crowding out - limited future fiscal choice - risk of crisis of confidence - a debt crisis becomes more likely
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Why not to worry about debt
- most owed by americans to Americans - future generations can help pay the debt - wont take a big adjustment to repay the debt - as long as the gov has the capacity to make payments it ok - gov has options for repayment

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