McGill University Winter 2013 Professor Christopher Ragan Leacock 321-C Economics 295B Introduction to Macroeconomic Policy Tuesdays and Thursdays‚ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm‚ Leacock 132 ***** I. Housekeeping Details 1. Office Hours. My office hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 am - 11:00 am. If you are unable to see me then‚ please speak to me to arrange an appointment. 2. Required Textbook and MyEconLab. The textbook for this class is the macroeconomics half of Economics
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CHAPTER 3 National Income: Where It Comes From and Where It Goes Questions for Review 1. The factors of production and the production technology determine the amount of output an economy can produce. The factors of production are the inputs used to produce goods and services: the most important factors are capital and labor. The production technology determines how much output can be produced from any given amounts of these inputs. An increase in one of the factors of production or
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Macro economics 1876 to 1929 (Classical theory) Then great depression happened. US AND UK changes US - Tax increase by Herbet Hoover UK- No change‚state wouldn’t intervene Then Keynes came into picture 1.Get govt to spend on public works program which is relatively cheaper 2.Put money into the hands of the people‚increase in the consumption The problem is that of lack of aggregate demand.He gave a fiscal policy kind of solution..Why? Aggregate demand was tackled.. Either through
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1. People like Ferraris. Ferrari’s cost as much as consumers are willing and able to pay for them! The cost of Ferrari does depend on markets and prices‚ which makes up the market system. Resource prices also determine the cost a product or good. The higher the resource price‚ the higher the cost of production‚ and price of the good would be‚ which brings you to supply and demand. If you able to produce a product at a certain price and consumers keep buying‚ then you would not have to make any adjustments
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Macroeconomics explores trends in the national economy as a whole considering the study of the sum of individual economic factors. Industry is affected by factors such as GDP‚ unemployment‚ inflation‚ interest rates‚ and consumer price index. Fiscal (government) policy can help guide the economy toward a particular track without dictating a specific ending affecting tax‚ interest rates‚ and government spending (McConnell and Brue‚ 2005). Monetary policy attempts to achieve vast economic goals by
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Macroeconomic Forecast Outline Macroeconomics is‚ "the part of economics concerned with the economy as a whole; with such major aggregates as the household‚ business‚ and government sectors; and with measures of the total economy" (McConnell & Brue‚ p.13). "Two of the most critical questions in macroeconomics are: (1) What determines the level of GDP‚ given a nation ’s production capacity? (2) What causes real GDP to rise in one period and to fall in another?" (McConnell & Brue‚ p.72). So
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periods of falling real incomes and rising unemployment Depressions: severe recessions (very rare) Short-run economic fluctuations are often called business cycles FACTS: 1. Economic fluctuations are irregular and unpredictable. 2. Most macroeconomic quantities fluctuate together. 3. As output falls‚ unemployment rises. The AD curve shows the quantity of all g&s demanded in the economy at any given price level. Y = C + I + G + NX When an increase happened to C‚I‚G‚(NX or EX) - the
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Fundamentals of Macroeconomics Paper ECO/372 Fundamentals of Macroeconomics Paper Part 1 * Gross Domestic Product (GDP)- is the market value of all goods and services within a country in a period of time (Hindsight). * Real GDP- account for changes in the price level‚ an adjusted measure compared to Nominal GDP. * Nominal GDP- When a GDP figures that has not been adjusted for inflation. * Unemployment Rate- The rate is measure of unemployment citizens by dividing the number
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must meet two basic concepts of economics these are Microeconomics and Macroeconomics and to get to know these concepts is necessary to know which is the economy and economics is the science that studies human behavior and trade ‚ sales tax‚ receipt of wages‚ credit‚ is the science of the usual business of the above are some definitions that can be found in the economy as such. In this research we can differentiate macroeconomics microeconomics its relationship to the economy to serve both‚ we can
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A N N U A L R E P O R T / B C R P 2 0 0 7 CENTRAL RESERVE BANK OF PERU 13 GRAPH 1 Overall inflation and food and beverage inflation in December 2007 (Las 12-month percentage change) Data on inflation in China and Germany refers only to food. Source: Bloomberg. 12.0 15.2 16.7 8.5 6.2 10.8 6.6 4.8 6.1 6.0 5.7 5.4 8.4 7.8 6.5 5.7 5.1 4.5 4.2 4.1 3.9 3.8 2.8 2.1 Turkey Chile China Colombia India Brasil Spain USA Peru Mexico Germany England Total Food and Beverages In 2007 economic
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