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1
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What are the 4 sectors (stakeholders) in an economy?

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Households (domestic)
Firms (domestic)
Government (domestic)
Foreign (foreign hhs, firms & gov)

2
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Definition of injections

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Refers to any payment of income to domestic firms that do not arise from domestic households, but are additional spending generated by other sectors of the ecy.

3
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What do injections into an economy come in the forms of?

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Exports (X revenue)
- dom firms earn revenue from hhs, firms and govs in other ctys through exports.

Investment
- acquisition of new capital gds. creates revenue for dom firms that manufacture capital equipment

Government expenditure
- govs purchase g&s from firms; and also need to spend on the wages of civil servants

4
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Definition of withdrawals

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also known as Leakages,
Refers to any part of a household’s income that is not spent on domestically-produced g&s, but leaves the circular flow of income.

5
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What do withdrawals from an economy come in the forms of?

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Imports (M expenditure)
- hhs buy g&s from abroad

Net savings
- some of hhs’ Ys are saved

Net taxes
- compulsory payments to the gov not for gds provided or services rendered

6
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What is AD?

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Refers to the quantity of domestically-produced g&s that hhs, firms, gov and foreigners are w&a to buy at each possible GPL

Written as
AD = Cd + Id + Gd + Xd
or
AD = C + I + G + (X-M)

7
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Determinants of consumer expenditure

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  • Income (Y-induced C)
  • Wealth
  • Taxes and transfers
  • —> disposable Y is the earnedY minus direct taxes and transfers
  • Expectations of future prices and Y
  • Cost and availability of credit
  • Distribution of income
8
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Determinants of investment

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investment = fixed capital formation + changes in inventories

  • Business confidence and expectations
  • Gov policies
  • Costs and efficiency of capital equipment
  • Cost and availability of credit

Recall MEI & its graph

9
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Determinants of government expenditure

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  • For macroeconomic stabilisation
  • For sustained and sustainable growth
  • Gov SPENDING for social objectives (e.g. merit and public gds)
  • —> gov SPENDING can be classified as:
    (i) gov exp on final g&s [which consists of gov consumption exp e.g. payment of civil servants; and gov investment e.g. construction of new highway, etc.
    (ii) transfer payments [which shows up as Cd in the circular flow]
10
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Determinants of net exports

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  • Foreign Y & Dom Y
  • Relative prices [depending on i/r & exr)
  • T&Ps
  • Gov policies
11
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What is AS?

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Refers to the quantity of domestically-produced g&s that firms are w&a to supply at each possible GPL

Curve:
Keynesian range (horizontal)
Intermediate range (upward-sloping)
Classical range (vertical)
12
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Determinants of AS

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  • uCOP: affects AS in SR

- Factor Q&Q : affects AS in LR

13
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Factors that affect both AD & AS

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Investment

  • capital accumulation
  • addition to the ecy’s stock of physical capital (one of the FOPs)

Gov spending [development expenditure]
- education/training (human capital/skills/pdtivity)