Summary of Macroeconomics Lectures for MBA 1st Year‚ VGSoM‚ IIT Kharagpur Course coordinator – Dr. Barnali Nag Lecture #4 (Unemployment) 1. The natural rate of unemployment definition: the long-run average or “steady state” rate of unemployment depends on the rates of job separation and job finding 2. Frictional unemployment due to the time it takes to match workers with jobs may be increased by unemployment insurance 3. Structural unemployment results from wage rigidity: the real wage
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Economics and financial management consist of two major components: microeconomics and macroeconomics. These two components are interchangeable and act as the foundation to the core concepts to understanding the enormous arena of the financial world. Macroeconomics can be defined in several business terms‚ but simple put‚ it is the branch of economics that studies the economy of consumers or households or individual firms. Microeconomics basically deals with the choices and assessments made by businesses
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Current Events Summary ECON 220: Macroeconomics Poverty across America is continuing to increase throughout suburbs faster than anywhere else in the United States. Currently‚ there are almost 16.4 million suburban residents who reside below the poverty line. The latest Census figures available‚ in 2011‚ showed that the poverty line for a family of four was just over $23‚000 (Luhby‚ 2013‚ para. 3). The number of suburban residents below the poverty line is roughly 3 million more than those residing
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Table of Contents A. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................... I. The World ............................................................................................................ II. Brazil..................................................................................................................... B. THE COUNTRY ANALYSIS ..................................................................................
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Macroeconomics I Spring 2012 Homework 5 Instructor: Dang Vu‚ Ph.D. Student name: Student ID: Due date: 04/26/12 Part I: Multiple Choice Questions: (60 points) Choose the best answer (1) among the choices for each question. Please make sure you understand the economics behind all answers rather than just copying your friend’s answers! I will ask you to explain your answer in class. Failure to explain your answer even though you did it right in your homework will lead to deduction of
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Lecture 1 • Money is anything that is generally accepted in payment for goods and services or the repayment of debts • Wealth is the set of properties that serve to store value • Income is the flow of wealth accumulation per unit of time • The oldest form of exchange is barter‚ which requires a double coincidence of wants • The oldest form of money is commodity money: money is made out of a valuable commodity‚ like gold for example • We now use fiat money:
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Questions in macroeconomics Instructor: MA. Bui Huy Khoi Chapter 1 What is economics? Top of Form [pic] Question 1 Resources in an economy: a) Are always fixed b) Can never decrease c) Always increase over time d) Are limited at any moment in time [pic] Question 2 Human wants are: a) Always fixed ) Limited c) Unlimited d) Likely to decrease over time [pic] Question 3 The sacrifice involved when you choose
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Data Exercise One ECON 201: Principles of Macroeconomics September 5‚ 2014 To live in an economy that is not negatively impacted by recession‚ downsizing‚ or business capsizing would be ideal. The unfortunate reality is that we are faced with economic situations that will be either helpful or hurtful to us all. Over the last few quarters between 2013 and 2014 the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)‚ conducted an analysis that reflects the changes in GDP. During this time the Nominal GDP
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Macroeconomics is the study of how a national economy works with a view to understanding the interaction between growth in national income ‚employment and inflation. It also looks at balance of trade and the rate of exchange. Most national governments have four main objectives for their national economies. These are; achieve a low and stable rate of inflation in the general level of prices‚ achieve a high and stable level of employment‚ and therefore a low level of unemployment‚ encourage economic
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