Fundamentals of Macroeconomics ECO/372 Principles of Macroeconomics Alisha Wisniewski May 28‚ 2013 David Aloyan Part 1 Using Resource: Figure 3-1 in Ch. 3 of Macroeconomics 1. Gross Domestic Product – Is value of how much every household and a business can produce within the United States in a year. 2. Real GDP – The dollar amount of money made by businesses‚ government‚ and households combined. 3. Nominal GDP – GDP without taking in account other factors like inflation. It
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Macroeconomic objectives Explain the Government’s various macroeconomic objectives and their importance to UK economy. Is it possible for government to achieve all these objectives at the same time? 1. Define macro economics (Compare with micro) 2. Macroeconomic objectives:Assessing importance List :(discuss individual) 1)‚Economic Growth Advantages and disadvantages (and why) (PPF) full use of resource AD=C+I+G+X-M
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Fundamentals of Macroeconomics Lisa Rasch ECO/372 June 18th‚ 2012 Sigmund Karczewski Fundamental of Macroeconomics Part 1 * Gross Domestic Product (GDP)- GDP is the value of all goods and services that have been produced in a country within a period of time. * Real GDP- Real GDP refers to the value of all goods and services that has been adjusted for inflation or deflation. * Nominal GDP- Nominal GDP refers to the value of all goods and services that has not been adjusted for
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1a. Technology and innovation are two of the most important parts of economic growth in a country. For a country’s economy to grow you have to either increase the number of inputs in production‚ or you have to find a way to increase your output with the same number of inputs. This is essentially what technology has done for most economies. In the Solow model they take the standard Cobb Douglas function Y = F(K‚ L) to show how growth in capital stock and labor force affect the economy and how they
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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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Economics 101 Macroeconomics Country Paper Kazakhstan Table of Contents: I. Introduction A. The Republic of Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan’s Macroeconomics..................3 1) Geographical Location ………………………………………………...3 2) Land Size ………………………………………………………………...3 3) Currency………………………………………………………………....3 4) Population………………………………………………………………..3 5) Major Products ……………………………………………………...... 3-4 II. Discussion of the Macroeconomics Indicators A. Real GDP for the
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Direct signals are macro indicator signals of what is directly being measured. For example‚ the consumer price index for urban consumers tells us what is happening to the general price level of consumer goods in US urban locations. Another example of a direct signal would be the unemployment rate since it measures the percent of labor force that is unemployed. Indirect signals come from watching the movement of causally related indicators‚ and drawing conclusions about one from the movement of the
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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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Macro-Economics What is Macroeconomics? Macroeconomics studies the behaviour of the entire economy‚ and how resources are allocated. It examines economy – wide phenomena such as changes in unemployment‚ national income‚ rate of growth‚ gross domestic product‚ inflation and price levels. Macroeconomics deals with 5 variables: Variable Macroeconomic objective Economic growth A steady rate of increase of national output Employment A low level of unemployment Price stability A low and stable
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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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