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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to 2008‚ real GDP had increased continuously‚ especially in year 2006 and year 2007‚ making a 3.6% growth. However‚ its economic growth slowed down and went into negative growth when the global crisis hit in 2009. The economy entered its first recession in six years as a global slowdown strangled exports and companies slashed spending. The economic growth rate was -1.9%‚ which was dragged down mostly by a huge fall in Foreign Trade and Capital Investments. Swiss Economy: Declining Foreign Trade
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believe that this is the best out of supply side‚ adaptive expectations theory and rational expectations theory. Pure Keynesium is very diffrent from all the other theories in which in pure keynesium‚ view that in the short run‚ especially during recessions‚ economic output is strongly influenced by aggregate demand or the total spending in the economy. In the Keynesian view‚ aggregate demand does not necessarily equal the productive capacity of the economy but instead‚ it is influenced by many
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Circulation in macroeconomics Macroeconomics (from Greek prefix "makros-" meaning "large" + "economics") is a branch of economics dealing with the performance‚ structure‚ behavior‚ and decision-making of an economy as a whole‚ rather than individual markets. This includes national‚ regional‚ and global economies.[1][2] With microeconomics‚ macroeconomics is one of the two most general fields in economics. Macroeconomists study aggregated indicators such as GDP‚ unemployment rates‚ and price
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Fundamentals of Macroeconomics Fundamentals of Macroeconomics Throughout this paper I will provide an explanation of the following terms: Gross domestic product (GDP)‚ Real GDP‚ Nominal GDP‚ Unemployment rate‚ Inflation rate‚ and Interest rate. Within this paper I will consider purchasing of groceries‚ massive layoff of employees‚ and decrease in taxes as examples of economic activities. I will then describe how each of these activities affects government‚ households‚ and businesses as well
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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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Macroeconomics- Final Project Source: The World Bank & OECD- All figures are annually based. The country of Brazil is the both the largest‚ in terms of territory‚ and most populated country in South America. The country’s largest exports consist of coffee‚ iron ores and concentrates‚ petroleum oil‚ raw sugar‚ and soya beans. Brazil’s largest trade partners (in both import and export) include: China‚ The United States‚ and Argentina. (The Atlas of Economic Complexity‚ 2011) Source: The
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The Layoff The recent recession has brought about various major concerns amongst the most well off corporations in the United States. In the case of Astrigo‚ they missed their earnings estimate by 20 cents a share. Even with all the dropped expenses and inventory‚ Astrigo’s profits dropped by double digits. Astrigo‚ in which prides itself in having the best customer service in the retail industry‚ was losing sales to cheap retail stores with less than respectable customer service. Customer expectations
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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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from one of the longest and deepest recessions since the end of WWII. The definition of a recession is‚ a general slowdown in economic activity‚ a downturn in the business cycle‚ and a reduction in the amount of goods and services produced and sold. This is precisely what happened to the U.S economy from 2007-2009. For the years leading up to recession‚ a then booming housing market lead some to believe a recession was inmate. Since the start of the recession‚ the United States has tried to regain
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