3. Assume that, in the population, 95 million people worked for pay last week, 5 million people did not work for pay but had been seeking a job, 5 million people did not work for pay and had not been seeking a job for the past several months, and 45 million were under age 16. The unemployment rate, given these numbers, is:…
The CPI is meant to be a measure of the cost of living in the United States at any given time. It is used to track inflation. The CPI is derived from the cost of a given “market basket” of products and services that people typically need to buy. In other words, a set of goods and services is made up and the prices of those goods and services are determined. This is used as a baseline. As the prices of those goods and services changes, so does the CPI.…
Factors the inflation rate in a given year to create a more accurate picture of a county’s production level.…
Consider the following values of the consumer price index for 1996, 1997, and 1998: The inflation rate for 1997 was equal to…
((118.18-100)/(100)) x 100= 18.18% or 18% rounded. This means the inflation rate for the Year One-Year Two Period is approximately 18 percent.…
The following table shows nominal GDP and an appropriate price index for a group of selected years. Compute real GDP for each decade jump. Indicate in each calculation whether you are inflating or deflating the nominal GDP data.…
1) Assume there is a simple economy where people consume only 2 goods, food and clothing. Further assume that the market basket of goods used to compute the CPI consists of 100 units of food and 20 units of clothing.…
1. (a.) Suppose nominal GDP in 1999 was $200 billion, and in 2001, it was $330 billion. The general price index in 1999 was 100 and in 2001 it was 150. Between 1999 and 2001, the real GDP rose by what percent?…
A discretionary fiscal policy refers to deliberate changes in the level of government spending, transfer payments or in tax rates in order to achieve macroeconomic goals such as full employment, price stability, and economic growth. An expansionary fiscal policy is designed to close a recessionary gap by changing aggregate expenditures such as an increase in government purchases or decreasing taxes. A contractionary fiscal policy might involve a reduction in government purchases or transfer payments, an increase in taxes, or a mix of all three to shift the aggregate demand curve to the left, which results a real boost in actual GDP level and helping the economy to recover. Automatic stabilisers refer to the tendency for a system of taxes and transfers, which are related to the level of income to automatically reduce the size of GDP fluctuations. When an economy has a contractionary output gap, there will be higher unemployment rate and consequently, less income tax collections and more people living on welfare benefits. The government at its discretion has tools such as the discretionary fiscal policy and automatic stabilisers to stabilise the economy. Non-discretionary fiscal policy can alter the levels of taxations revenue and transfer payment expenses recorded during times of real GDP growth and contractions.…
1. Suppose a winter jacket costs $80 in 2003 and inflation was measured at 27% over the period from 2003 to 2013. If all other variables were to remain constant, how much would that jacket cost in year-2013 dollars? Use the inflation formula below to complete this calculation:…
The basic formula for calculating the GDP is: Y = C + I + E + G…
CPI is a measure that examines the weighted average of prices of a basket of consumer goods and services, such as transportation, food and medical care. The CPI is calculated by taking price changes for each item in the predetermined basket of goods and averaging them. The basket of goods is a price survey that is taken from 10,000 households across the UK. The households are asked to record what they buy for two weeks and from this the 699 most occurring goods from all households are price checked from varying places across the UK and then are placed into the basket of goods. The goods are weighted according to their importance i.e. petrol would be more important than CDs and would therefore be more weighted.…
Inflation can be defined as the overall general upward price movement of goods and services in an economy (BLS, 2007). It is a continual rise in price levels and, subsequently, purchasing power is falling. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures inflation as experienced by consumers in their day-to-day living expenses and is separated into two groups or populations of consumers: The CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).…
COMMON SIZE IS – Base is NET Sale (sale – excise duty) COMMON SIZE BS – Liability + SE Tools used in FSA Comparative analysis: Evaluation of consecutive financial statements to examine direction, speed, & extent of any trend(s) Common size analysis: Evaluation of internal makeup of financial statements, and/or financial statement accounts across companies Common size income statement as a percentage of revenue Common size balance sheet as a percentage of revenue Ratio analysis: Evaluates relation between two or more economically important items. Prior Accounting analysis is important Interpretation is key Categories of financial ratios Profitability Measures the company’s ability to generate profits from its resources Activity Measures how efficiently a company performs day-to-day activities such as collection of receivables and management of inventory Solvency Measures the company’s ability to meet long term obligations Liquidity Measures the company’s ability to meet its short-term obligations Valuation Measures the quantity of an asset or flow(earnings or CF) associated with ownership of a specified claim (e.g. share) Profitability Ratios 1.…
The Inflation rate changes every month and year, affecting the value of the money in the country. Inflation reflects a reduction in the purchasing power per unit of money, causing the price of goods and services to increase. Although people seem to see inflation as “evil”, but it is a necessary side-effect of a growing country, as economist sees that a small (<2%-3%) consistent amount of inflation is actually good. Without inflation the prices in the market will fall out of balance, if everything is cheap including costs of production, the resources will be very little as everyone will bulk buy, causing the resources to run out shortly.…