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Aggregate price level

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Measure of the overall level of prices in an economy

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Price basket

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A hypothetical set of consumer purchases of goods and services

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Price index

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The cost of purchasing a given Market Basket in a given year

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Formula for price index of a market basket

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Price of MB in given year/ price of MB in base year

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Inflation rate

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Price index 2- price index 1/price index 1

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Consumer price index (CPI)

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Measures the cost of the Market Basket on a typical Urban family

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Why inflation isn’t too accurate

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When you pay more over time you get more.

People change what they buy based on tastes

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Producer price index

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Measures the price of goods and services purchased by producers

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GDP deflator

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100x nominal GDP /real GDP

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Causes of inflation

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Demand pull, cost push, gov printing money

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Aggregate demand curve

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Shows the relationship between the aggregate price level and the quantity of aggregate output demanded by households

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Shifters of aggregate demand

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C (consumer spending)
I (investment spending)
G (gov spending)
X (net exports)

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The wealth effect

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The change in consumer spending caused by the altering purchasing power of consumer assets

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Interest rate effect

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A change in investment and consumer spending caused by altered interest rates that result from changes in the demand

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Changes in expectation

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Firm space investment spending on what they will make

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Changes in wealth

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When the real value of housing rises so does purchasing power

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Fiscal policy

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Do use of government intervention to stabilize the economy

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Low tax means high

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Disposable income

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High tax means Low

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disposable income

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Monetary policy

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Central banks way of changing the quantity of money or the interest rate to stabilize the economy

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Wealth effect modern definition

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When people have a higher purchasing power they spend more that’s shifting aggregate demand to the right

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Foreign trade effect

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When price level rises foreign buyers by fever goods

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Aggregate supply curve

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Shows the relationship between the aggregate price level and the quantity of aggregate output supplied

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Nominal wage

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Dollar amount of a wage paid

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Sticky wages
Nominal wages are slow to fall in the face of high unemployment and slow to rise in the face of labor shortages
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Shifters of agregate supply
P (productivity) E (expectations) A (actions of the government) R (Resources)
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Demand shock
An event which shifts the demand curve
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Changes in commodity prices
When a resource costs more aggregate supply decreases
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Changes in nominal wages
If wages increase aggregate supply decreases, because it is an input for the supplier
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Changes in productivity
The worker can make something more efficiently this shifts the supply curve to the right
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Expectations of inflation
Inflation if it is expected supply more now and vice a versa
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Long run agregate supply curve
Just the relationship between the aggregate price level and the quantity of output supplied that would exist if all prices including nominal wages were fully flexible
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Potential output
The level of real GDP a country would produce if all prices were fully flexible
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Why will LRAS increase over time
1. Increase quantity of resources 2. Better quality resources 3. Tech progress
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Supply shock
Something that shifts the supply
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Stagflation
Combination of inflation and falling demand
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Recessionary gap
Producing less than the potential output
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Inflationary gap
Producing more than potential output.
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Output gap
Percent difference between actual aggregate output and potential output
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Formula for output gap.
Actual -potential/potential
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Self correcting
Shocks to aggregate demand affect aggregate output in the short run but not the long run
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Classical macroeconomics
The belief that the economy will fix itself
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Keynesian macroeconomics
The government needs to step in and fix the economy
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The Phillips curve
Shows the ratio between unemployment and inflation in the economy .
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How is a shift in agregate demand shown on a PC
Like a mirror. Increase in demand is a leftward shift along the curve. Decrease in demand is a rightward shift along the curve
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How is Agregate supply shown on a Phillips curve
Like a mirror. AS shifts right the SRPC shifts left. AS shifts left, SRPC shifts right
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Debt deflation
The reduction of aggregate demand from an increase in real burden of outstanding debt caused by inflation
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Zero bound
Nominal interest rate cannot go below zero
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Liquidity trap
A situation in which conventional monetary policy is ineffective because nominal interest rates are up against a zero bound
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MPC
The ratio of money spent bs money saved | Consumer spending over disposable income
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MPS
The amount of money that is saved by a person | 1-MPC
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Autonomous spending
Spending on stuff that is necessary to live. Won't change What a household would spend with no disposable income
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Agregate consumption function
Consumption = agregate spending + mpc(disposable income) | C=A+YD
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Spending multiplier
1/MPS
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Wealth
What your history gives you | Ie. Debt, extra money, investments, etc.
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Interest rates and investment spending
If interest rates increase investment spending will go down
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Expected future GDP and investment spending
If GDP is expected to increase then more will be invested
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Inventory investment
The value of a change of total inventories held In the economy
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Calculate total interest rate
I = unplanned investment + planned investment
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Consumer spending
What consumers will spend. | it is equal to the autonomous spending plus the disposable income
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Two Types of government spending
1. Purchases of goods and services | 2. Transfers
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Types of government transfers
1. social security (guaranteed income to people who have none) 2. Medicare (for people over 65) 3. Medicade (for low income families)
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Social insurance
Government programs intended to protect families from economic hardship
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Expansionary fiscal policy
Increases aggregate demand by, - increase in government purchases - cutting taxes - or increase in government transfers
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Contractionary fiscal policy
Increases aggregate demand by - reducing government purchases - increasing taxes - or reducing transfers.
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Multiplier effect
The money government spends causes chain reactions so the value is more than what they actually spent
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Tax multiplier
MPC /MPS
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Why is government spending worth more than an equal tax cut.
With the government spending there is the multiplier effect, but with the tax cut people will save a portion and spend a portion
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Nondiscretionary fiscal policy
The economy stabilizing itself because of the automatic stabilizers set in place by the government, does not require direct government intervention
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Discretionary fiscal policy
When the government directly works and makes the decision to try to fix the economy
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Government budget equation
Governments revenue minus government purchases and transfers
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Gov debt
The aCumulation of passed a budget deficits minus past budget surpluses
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Budget deficit
Government revenue is less than spending in a given year
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Fiscal year
Runs from October 1 to September 30 and is labeled from the calendar year from which it ends
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Public debt
Government that held by individuals and institutions outside the government
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Why is rising debt bad?
1. Increases interest rates | 2. Today's debt hurts the futures growth
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Crowding out
I'm at impacts have a unintended effects to weaken the impact of the policy
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Problems with fiscal policy
Deficit spending, timing, politically motivated policies, crowding out, net export affect
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How to grow the economy
Increase physical capital (growth rates of investments) Increase human capital (educate) Tech progress
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Infostructure
Roads powerline sports information or some under pioneer foundations high infrastructure is equal to a good economy

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