Definition of GDP
What is the GDP contribution?
Miscellaneous Questions
The Expenditure Method
Final Problem
100

What is output?

What is what a nation produces.

100

GDP includes goods when they are sold or consumed. True or false?

What is false, it includes goods when they are produced.

100

True or false, final goods are sold on their own.

What is true.

100

What is consumption?

What is spending of consumers on goods and services.

100

Based on the information below, what is the GDP contribution of C?

Household spending on goods: $4,000

Exports: $2,000

Business spending on equipment: $1,500

Household spending on services: $6,000

Imports: $5,000

Business spending on inventories: $1,500

Home buying: $3,000

Government purchases of goods: $3,000

Transfer payments: $800

What is $10,000.

200

How is output and GDP related?

What is GDP measures output.

200

For an airplane produced this year, it requires multiple components including plexiglass for the windows. If the United States government buys a Boeing plane for $500,000 with plexiglass that costs $20,000, what is the GDP contribution?

What is $500,000, the plexiglass is part of the plane, so it is already included in the price.

200

Does 2022 GDP include goods produced in 2020 that were sold in 2022?

What is no, it includes goods produced in 2022.

200

What is investment spending?

What is businesses spending money on inventories and productive assets and purchases of new homes.

200

Based on the information below, what is the GDP contribution of G?

Household spending on goods: $4,000

Exports: $2,000

Business spending on equipment: $1,500

Household spending on services: $6,000

Imports: $5,000

Business spending on inventories: $1,500

Home buying: $3,000

Government purchases of goods: $3,000

Transfer payments: $800

What is $3,000.

300

Define GDP.

What is the market value of all final goods and services produced inside the boundaries of an economy over some period of time, measured as accurately as possible.

300

If cardboard is the intermediate good in production of cereal by Kellogs, what is the contribution to GDP if $100 worth of cardboard is produced and sold to Kellogs who produces $500 worth of cereal?

What is $500 as that is the value of the cereal only or the final good.

300

If an Australian produces something in the United States, would that count as GDP for Australia or the United States?

What is the United States as the products were produced within the United States’ borders, further, citizenship is not the issue.

300

If firms spend $300 on productive assets and $40 on inventory, there are $1,000 worth of home purchases, and people buy $200 in stocks and bonds, what is the amount of economic investment?

What is $1,340.

300

Based on the information below, what is the GDP contribution of I?

Household spending on goods: $4,000

Exports: $2,000

Business spending on equipment: $1,500

Household spending on services: $6,000

Imports: $5,000

Business spending on inventories: $1,500

Home buying: $3,000

Government purchases of goods: $3,000

Transfer payments: $800

What is $6,000.

400

What does market value mean?

What is GDP is measured in terms of dollar prices not the number of units produced. You could not compare the number of umbrellas produced to the number of wrenches produced in a given year, so it provides a common measurement.

400

If a nation sold $300 worth of goods in 2022 with $100 worth of goods produced in 2020 and $200 worth of goods produced in 2022 with an additional $40 worth of services sold in 2022, what is the GDP contribution?

What is $240 worth of goods and services produced in 2022.

400

What are imputed values? 

What are values calculated even when no money changes hands such as the rent that would have been paid for an owned home.

400

If the North Carolina Governor's Office spent $5 on paper clips, $50 on cardstock paper, $2,000 on a local unemployment program, and $2,500 to fix local roads, what is the GDP contribution?

What is $2,555.

400

Based on the information below, what is the GDP contribution of Nx?

Household spending on goods: $4,000

Exports: $2,000

Business spending on equipment: $1,500

Household spending on services: $6,000

Imports: $5,000

Business spending on inventories: $1,500

Home buying: $3,000

Government purchases of goods: $3,000

Transfer payments: $800

What is $-3,000

500

Why are intermediate goods not included in GDP?

What is they are inputs into producing something else, so because they are part of the final good, their value is already included in the price.

500

In 2022, citizens of Australia produced $400 of total output, $150 in Australia and $250 in the United States. Also in 2022, citizens of the United States produced $200 of total output, $75 in Australia and $125 in the United States. What is Australia’s GDP contribution?

What is $225 in Australia’s borders, no matter citizenship.

500

What are productive assets?

What are assets used to produce output (capital).

500
Explain the relationship between exports and imports defining net exports.

What is exports minus imports meaning there can be negative net exports when there are more imports. Further, exports are items produced domestically but sold abroad and imports are items produced abroad but sold domestically.

500

Based on the information below, what is the total GDP contribution?

Household spending on goods: $4,000

Exports: $2,000

Business spending on equipment: $1,500

Household spending on services: $6,000

Imports: $5,000

Business spending on inventories: $1,500

Home buying: $3,000

Government purchases of goods: $3,000

Transfer payments: $800

What is $16,000.