GDP
Unemployment
Inflation
Econ Policies
Intl Trade
100

The equation to Calculate GDP.

GrossDomesticProduct = Investment + Consumption + Government + ( eXports - iMports )

100

This type of unemployment occurs when someone is between jobs. Example: A graduate moving from a casual job to a part time role for a different employer.

What is frictional unemployment?

100

Is the rise in prices and decline in purchasing power of consumers.

What is inflation?

100

Government use of taxation and spending for economic objectives.

What is fiscal policy ?

100

Is the difference between a country's exports and imports for a given period.

What is Balance of Trade? What are Net exports?
200

Dividing GDP by the population.

What is GDP per capita?

200

The main difference is that this type of unemployment is related to the business cycle.


What is Cyclical unemployment?  

200

is a measure of the average change in prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.

What is Consumer Price Index?

200

Influence economy through controlling inflation.


What is monetary policy?

200

Is selling goods and services produced in the home country to foreign markets.

What are exports?

300

the market value of all final goods and services produced within a nation during a year.

What is GDP?

300

Type of unemployment linked to seasonal labor demand fluctuations.

Like farmers,or Christmas sales


What is seasonal unemployment?

300

Is the entity that controls inflation by setting interest rates and controlling money supply.

What is the Central Bank? Banxico

300

The Government increases spending to stimulate growth during a ______ stage of the economic cycle.


What is an economic contraction stage? An expansionary fiscal policy is then applied.

300

Human Development Index, Gini coefficient, Big Mac Index are other types of 

What are Economic indicators?

400

Intermediate goods, used goods, financial transactions, transfer payments, informal economy

Mention one thing not accounted for when calculating GDP.

400

when companies hire outside firms to lower production costs. ex. Call centers in India

What is Outsourcing?

400

Is different from headline inflation which includes food and energy volatile prices.

What is core inflation? (subyacente)

400

Is a negative effect of an expansionist policy.

Is a negative effect of an contractionist policy.

What is more inflation ?

What is more unemployment?

400

This barrier to international trade is the limit to the amount of imported goods.

What is a Quota?

500

A pizza restaurant spends $4000 dollars on advertisement. How is that calculated in the GDP?

(I, C, G, X, M)

As Business Investment?

500

housewifes/stay-at-home parents, students, retired, institutionalized, handicapped...people who are above 15 years old and are not actively looking for work in the labor market.

What is "Poblacion economicamente Inactiva"?, not accounted for in the Unemployment rate.

500

Creeping 3%,  walking 3-10%, galloping +10% and ____, +___% are types of inflation.

What is hyperinflation +50%?

500

expansion, peak, contraction, trough are the stages of

What is the business/economic cycle?

500

Countries should produce and export the good for which they have the lowest opportunity cost.

What is comparative advantage?