ECON 201: Introduction to Macroeconomics Midterm Exam 1: Answer Packet October 10‚ 2011 NAME: _________________________________ Circle your TA’s name: Circle your section time: Agustin 9 a.m. Brian 3 p.m. Meysam Directions: This test is in two parts‚ a multiple choice question part and a short-answer part. Use this answer packet to complete the exam. Calculators are permitted. Books‚ notes‚ reference materials‚ etc. are prohibited. Good luck! Part 1: Referring to the questions in the Multiple
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A First Look at Macroeconomics Economic Growth • Definition: the expansion of the economy’s PPF (outward shift) • Measured by the increase in real domestic product (also called real GDP) Costs Benefits Forgone current consumption Technological progress Slow growth rates = real costs (e.g. compromised health care‚ worse roads‚ less housing etc.) Greener environment (questionable) Fluctuations of Real GDP around Potential GDP: the Business Cycle The Okun Gap Definitions: • Actual GDP:
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KEY SUCCESS FACTORS IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY. A key success factor is the thing that most affects the ability of a company to succeed in the market. A company must develop competence on its industry’s key success factors if it has to remain successful. Sound strategy incorporates efforts to be competent on all key industry success factors and to excel on at least one factor. The key success factors in the banking industry include: 1) Management – Management plays a key role in ensuring
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discovering there are many online and text resources available to educate oneself with the world’s economics both past and present. We are also learning how economic indicators shape the world we live in and how they affect us both personally and professionally. Team C is learning that Macroeconomics studies the behavior of the aggregate economy such as uunemployment‚ expectations‚ consumer income‚ and interest rates within the United States. Team C has compiled a list of resources we found to be insightful
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Macroeconomics Unit 4 assignment Lane Litton 7-1-11 1) Fiscal policy is the government’s policy with respect to spending and taxation. It is set by the federal government. It impacts our economy in a couple of ways. Since government spending is a component of aggregate demand government spending on goods and services has a direct effect on the level of aggregate demand. Taxes also effect aggregate demand‚ however they do so indirectly. When tax’s rise or fall‚ they change the disposable
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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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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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Changes in the macro environment affect individual firms and industries through the microeconomic factors of demand‚ production‚ cost‚ and profitability. Drawing on current business publications‚ find some updated facts for each case that support this theme. Drawing on current business publications and the two cases in this chapter it is prevalent that several changes in the macro environment have had an effect on the profitability of individual firms and industries. The text states that (Farnham‚
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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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Cost management | Wilkerson Company Case | | 1. What is the competitive situation faced by Wilkerson? The competitive situation faced by Wilkerson is quite severe. Price cutting in its main product has led to a huge drop in profit. While price increase in another product line partially made up the loss. We will discuss the detailed situation line by line. (1) Valves It was the first product line developed by Wilkerson and its high quality brought it a loyal customer base. Even
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