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Final Exam Flashcards

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Partial equilibrium

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Condition of economic equilibrium which takes into consideration only a part of the market, ceteris paribus, to attain equilibrium.

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Customs Union

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Type of trade bloc which is composed of a free trade area with a common external tariff.

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Common Market

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Type of trade bloc which is composed of a common external tariff And free flow of labor and capital

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FDC and United States Department of Justice

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Leaders in international antitrust enforcement

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Why do Cartels Occur?

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  1. Can make legal cartels (OPEC)
    Still legal in some countries
  2. Sometimes it is worth the risk (potential penalties are smaller than gains
  3. Tacit collusion (collude without sitting down and agreeing.
    - Biggest player sets the price and others follow
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Cartel

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A group of firms who have agreed explicitly to coordinate their activities to
raise market price or decrease market output.

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Tacit collusion

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mutual understanding without overt communication

“conscious parallelism”

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Explicit conspiracy

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overt communication among firms
Price fixing agreement
Formal cartel

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Facilitating practices

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Things that help collusion
“Most Favored Costumer” clauses or price matching polcies
- Reduces seller’s incentives to cut prices
- Makes monitoring other’s prices easier

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Three Challenges for a cartel

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  1. to coordinate participants’ decisions on pricing and/or production.
  2. to monitor behavior by participants(to detect cheating)
  3. to prevent or deter non‐member entry, or expansion of production/capacity by
    non‐members
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

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GDP measures the total value of all goods and services produced by a country during a year.

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GDP per Capita

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indicate the average wellbeing of individuals i a country

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Trade Surplus

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When the value of exports exceeds the value of imports

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Trade deficit

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When the value of exports falls short of the value of imports

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Bretton Woods Conference 1994

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Established the IMF and World Bank
- No restrictions or controls on the
exchange of currencies for transactions on the current account.
- Currency controls or restrictions were allowed for transactions recorded
on the financial accounts (capital controls)

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International Monetary Fund

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The IMF was created to help stabilize exchange rates in the fixed
exchange rate system

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Gross National Product (GNP)

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  • Market value of all the products and services produced in one year by labour and property supplied by the citizens of a country.
  • GNP differs from GDP, because it adds
    in returns to national factors of production located overseas, and subtracts off returns to foreign factors of production located within
    national borders
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Weaknesses of GDP as an economic measure.

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  • ignores the value of goods and services left over from previous years
  • Fails to recognize the size of the population it must support.
  • gives no account of how the goods and services produced by the economy are distributed among members of the economy
  • Overstate growth or standard of living.
  • Does not account for externalities
  • Ignores value of consumption
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GDP is the sum of . . .

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  • Personal consumption expenditures (C)
  • Private investment expenditures (I)
  • Government Consumption Expenditures (G)
  • Expenditures on exports (EX) minus expenditures on imports (IM)

GDP = C + I + G + EX - IM

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Role of income in National Income Identity (GDP?)

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  • Imports are subtracted in the national income identity because they appear as hidden elements in consumption, investment, government, and exports
  • If not subtracted, overcounting may occur
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Balance of Payments Account (BoP)

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  • Record of all international transactions

- Consists of current account and financial account

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Component of BoP

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  • Exports and Imports of goods (G)
  • Exports and imports of services (S)
  • Income payments and receipts (IPR)
  • Unilateral Transfers (UT)
23
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GDP vs GNP

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GDP includes only exports and imports of goods and services, implying that GDP excludes income payments and receipts and unilateral transfers

24
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Financial Accounts Balance

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