Opportunity Cost
3 Policies
The Economy
100

Money Actually Paid (ex. rent, $180 for collegiate club)

What is Explicit Cost?

100

What are the three policies?

What is fiscal policy, monetary policy, and structural policy?

100

Name as many of the 6 things macroeconomists look for to judge the economy: (100 points for each)

What is: economic growth and standard of living, productivity, recessions and expansions, unemployment, inflation, economic interdependence between nations

200

The value of what you gave up? (ex. time, tips you could have made)

What is Implicit Cost?

200

Manages money supply and interest rates

What is Monetary Policy?

200

Adding up individual economic variables to obtain economy-wide variable; adding up all consumer spending

What is aggregation?

300

The value of the next best alternative you give up when you make a choice

What is Opportunity Cost?

300

Manages government spending, taxes, and the budget

What is fiscal policy?

300

True or false: every macro variable is an aggregate (ex. total GPD, inflation, etc.)

What is True

400

The idea that a rational person or entity should only make choose something if the benefits outweigh (or are equal to) the costs

What is cost benefit principle?

400

Changes the institution and the rules of the game

What is Structural Policy?

400

A period with stronger economic growth

What is an expansion?

500

A change in cost or benefits which then changes behaviors. (Ex. 7brew Needoh)

What is Incentives?

500

The Federal Reserve (the Fed) runs this policy

What is Monetary Policy?

500

A slowdown in economic growth

What is a recession?