GDP
Unemployment
Inflation
Real vs. Nominal
Business Cycle
100

The monetary value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year

What is Gross Domestic Product? 

100

number of employed + number of unemployed

What is the labor force? 

100

A general and progressive increase in the average price level of the economy

What is Inflation? 

100

When inflation is being factored into calculations, the result is stated as being _____ 

What is a real?  

100
What does the straight line represent in the Business cycle model? 

What is full employment? 

200

C+I+G+(X-M)

What is the formula for GDP? 

200

((number of unemployed) / (labour force))* 100

What is Unemployment Rate? 

200

A contraction of economic activity results in a decline in prices

What is Deflation? 

200

What is the formula to calculate the GDP Deflator?

What is Nominal GDP / Real GDP x 100? 

200
What is it called when the business cycle expansion is above the full employment line? 

What is an inflationary gap?  

300

The value of final goods and services evaluated at current-year prices.

What is Nominal GDP? 

300

unemployment that results because it takes time for workers to search for the jobs that best suit their tastes and skills

What is Frictional Unemployment? 

300

Calculate the inflation rate if prices went from $5 to $6.25 in a year

What is 25%  

300
What is the GDP Deflator in the base year? 

What is 100?

300

A long-term, often lasting years, economic state characterized by high unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment.

What is a Depression? 

400

What does the (X- M) stand for in GDP calculation formula

What are Net Exports

400

Long-Lasting Unemployment as a result of shifts in the economy. 

What is Structural Unemployment?

400

Shows changes in the average prices of goods and services purchased by consumers over a period of time

What is Consumer Price Index (CPI)? 

400

What is the Real GDP if the deflator is 125 and Nominal GDP is $8,000? 

What is $6,400? 

400

Fluctuations in the growth of real GDP, consisting of alternating periods of expansions and contractions.

What is Business Cycle? 

500

Spending by firms on new factories, office buildings, machinery, and additions to inventories, plus spending on households and firms on new houses.

What are Investments? 

500

What does this formula tell us:  Labor Force / Working Age Population (not institutionalized) 

Labor Force Participation Rate
500

The decline in the rate of inflation 

What is Disinflation? 

500
Calculate the Nominal GDP if Real was $5,000 and the deflator was 110. 

What is $5,500?  

500

A period of economic growth as measured by a rise in real GDP.

What is Expansion? 

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