Oluwatobi Onibatedo Eco 301 08/24.2013 WEEK 1 HOMEWORK Problem 1 1.a. Suppose the real GDP is currently $97 billion per year and natural real GDP is currently $100 billion. Measured as a percentage‚ what is the real GDP gap? Solutions Actual real GDP- Natural Real GDP =GDP gap over 100 = $97- $100= -3/100 = -3% GDP GAP is -3% The negative answer means the economy as a whole is in a recession. 1(b) Suppose natural real GDP is growing by $4 billion per year. By how much must
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3rd Edition‚ June 2005 Eric Doviak Principles of Microeconomics on the Lecture Notes Preface Microeconomics is the study of the behavior of individual households‚ firms and industries as well as the supply and demand relationships between producers and consumers. You might think of a household as a consumer‚ but households are also producers. For example‚ take a look at your kitchen: you take raw materials (meat‚ cheese‚ vegetables‚ eggs‚ salt and pepper) as well as capital
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micro and macroeconomics are the most well-known. Over the years‚ both have become an increasingly common part of high school and college-level curriculums. Despite their popularity‚ however‚ the principles of these disciplines are frequently misunderstood or confused. While they share some of the same concepts and are interrelated in important ways‚ there is a fundamental difference between micro and macroeconomics. The simplest way to distinguish microeconomics from macroeconomics is to think
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ECON1102 Macroeconomics 1 Course Outline Semester 2‚ 2013 Part A: Course-Specific Information Students are also expected to have read and be familiar with Part B Supplement to All Course Outlines. This contains Policies on Student Responsibilities and Support‚ Including Special Consideration‚ Plagiarism and Key Dates. It also contains the ASB PROGRAM LEARNING GOALS. Table of Contents 1 STAFF CONTACT DETAILS 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 1.1 Communications with
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PRINCIPLE OF MACROECONOMICS 1.0 Content No. Topic Page 1.0 Content 2 2.0 Introduction 3 3.0 Discuss the cost of inflation and the dangers of deflation. 4 4.0 Discuss the nature and the roles of money. 8 5.0 Explain how banks can add to the money supply by making loans of money they are not required to hold in reserve. 10 6.0 How hyperinflations are caused by governments resorting to seignorage. 13 7.0 Conclusion 16 8.0 Reference 17 9.0 Coursework
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• Micro vs. Macro • Microeconomics – the study of how individual households and firms make decisions and how they interact with one another in markets. • Macroeconomics – the study of the economy as a whole. – Its goal is to explain the economic changes that affect many households‚ firms‚ and markets at once. • The Two Groups of Economists • Macroeconomists • Focus on the economy as a whole. • Spend much time analyzing how total income changes and how changes in income cause changes in
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axis and Good 2 is on the vertical axis‚ then an increase in the price of Good 1 will not change the horizontal intercept of the budget line. 2. Henrietta’s utility function is U(x1‚ x2) = x1x2. She has diminishing marginal rate of substitution between goods 1 and 2. 3. Other things being equal‚ a lump sum tax is at least as good for a consumer as a sales tax that collects the same revenue from him. 4. Sharon spends all of her income on peaches and strawberries. Peaches are a normal good for her
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Introduction Demand Supply Market Supply and Demand 2.301 Microeconomics Cohort 1.1 Term 4‚ 2013 Continuous Double Auction Market Introduction Demand Supply Market Supply and Demand Welcome!! Continuous Double Auction Market Introduction Demand Supply Market Supply and Demand Continuous Double Auction Market Introduction • Microeconomics is the study of how individuals and firms‚ assumed to be self-interested‚ make constrained decisions
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Fundamentals of Macroeconomics D.A. Torrez ECO/372 October 25‚ 2012 Kirk Marangi Fundamentals of Macroeconomics What is economics? Economics is the study of what people do to coordinate their want and desires through production‚ distribution‚ and consumption of goods and services (Colander‚ 2010). To understand economics‚ one has to understand the basic fundamentals of economics. Economics is based on two groups’ macroeconomics and microeconomics. So what is macroeconomics? Macroeconomics is the
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of this article‚ however some of the assumptions are precisely impractical. 1. Applying monopolist scenario on ordinary circumstances As the article states‚ all economical approach in this article is for a monopolist who price-discriminates between two markets. However‚ could this monopolist scenario represent the whole drug market? Pindyck and Rubinfeld (2009) mentioned that pure monopoly is rare. There are usually competitors who produce substitutions in most of modern markets and when there
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