the concept that there are unlimited wants and needs and limited resources
what is scarcity?
What is Absolute Advantage
Consumers will buy more when the price is low and less when the price is high
What is the law of demand
The income earned from labor
What are wages
Unemployment due to a recession
What is cyclical unemployment?
What is the Consumer Price Index
Those who benefit from unexpected inflation
Who are Borrowers (people paying a fixed rate)
GDP = C+I+G+Xn
What is the Expenditure Formula for GDP?
the factor of production that includes man made items like machinery and tools
What is capital
When a producer can make something at the lowest opportunity cost
What is comparative Advantage?
The law that results in price and quantity having a positive relationship
What is the law of supply
The income earned from land
Structural and Frictional Unemployment together
What is the natural rate of unemployment
( Cost of fixed basket in year x / cost of fixed basket in base year) x 100
What is the CPI formula
Who lose when there is unexpected inflation/
When Xn is negitive
When are imports greater than exports?
the bottom of a recession
what is a trough
OPP Cost (a) = A/B
What is the input formula
The market clearing price and quantity indicating where consumers and producers are both happy
measure that accounts for total output in a nation
What is Gross Domestic Product?
(unemployed workers / labor force ) x100
what is the unemployment rate formula
(New-old/old) x 100
what is the rate of change formula (inflation formula)
(Nominal / Real ) x100
What is the GDP Deflator formula
2
The amount of one good or service that is given up when choosing to produce another
What is opportunity cost?
OPP cost (a) = B/A
What is the output
An example: In the market for redbull, the price of monster has increased resulting in the demand curve for redbull to increase (and move to the right)
What is a substitute shift
Government using tax dollars to purchase goods and services
What is government expenditure?
labor force/ number of 16+ non-institutionalized civilian population
what is the labor force participation rate formula?
Find CPIs for 200 and 2004
Basket in 2000 costs $750
Basket in 2004 costs $800
2000 is the base year.
CPI 2000= 100
CPI 2004= 107 (106.6)
Nominal interest is 9% and the inflation rate is 3%
What is a real inflation rate of 6%
= 1000 in year 1
= 1500 in year 2
What is nominal GDP
4
what is an expansion
The model that shows combinations of goods or services that can be produced by a given firm or country
What is a Production Possibilities Curve?
Brittany has this advantage in pies
Who has absolute advantage in pies?
An example: In the market for gasoline, the price of natural gas has increased, resulting in the supply curve to increase (move to the right)
What is a complement shift
What is not counted in GDP? (Shortcoming of GDP)
Find the Unemployment Rate in the data provided
Unemployment Rate= 5%
The CPI of the 1990 using 1988 as the base year
What is 113.7 (114)?
If prices fall, the borrower of $1,000 is one.
Who is the loser
If nominal GDP is $300 billion, and the deflator is 150
200 billion
The negative gap between potential and real output
What is the output gap? OR recessionary gap
What is inefficient?
Caleb has this advantage.
Who has comparative advantage in pies?
An Example: When a demand curve increases (for any reason) and a supply curve decreases (for any reason)
What is a price increase
What is the factor market (factors of production) (labor)
no need to show work--calculate number in labor force and unemployment rate
Labor force = 115 (80+25+10)
Unemployment Rate= 8.7% (10/115) x100
Inflation rate 2017 to 2019
40%
(140-100/100) x 100
Real interest rate is 7% and nominal was 5%
inflation rate was -2%.
1150 with year 1 as base
What is Year 2 Real GDP
the positive gap between potential and actual output
What is economic growth