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Economics
Undergraduate 1
12/13/2013

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Term
Economic Investment
Definition
Paying for new additional to capital stock or new replacements for capital stock worn out. example new factories, houses, retail stores, construction equip
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Financial Investment
Definition
Buying as asset or building on asset for a financial gain does not distinguish between new or old asset, does not matter if purchasing an asset adds to the capital stock replaces the capital stock or does neither
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Present value equation
Definition
PV = FV/(1+rate)^time
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Stock
Definition
ownership claim to a company you get the right to vote in meetings
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Capital Gain
Definition
When an investor sells a share of a stock for more then they paid for it
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Dividend
Definition
Payment of a corporation profit
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Limited liability
Definition
If a company goes bankrupt and owes more then the value of a fund assets shareholders do not owe anything
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Bonds
Definition
Debt contracts issued by the government a corparation
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Mutual funds
Definition
a company that maintain a professionally managed portfolio
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Arbitrage
Definition
when investors try to take advantage and profit from situation in which 2 identical or nearly identical assets have different rate of return

Buys the asset with a high rate of return and sell the one with the low rate of return
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Risk
Definition
Uncertainty of future payment
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Diversity
Definition
the strategy of investing in a large number of investment or varity to risk to reduce the risk of the portfolio
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2 types of risk
Definition
1. diverifiable risk - risk specific to an investment that can be eliminated by diversification
2. non-diversifiable risk - risk that pushes all investment in some direction as the same time and cannot be solved
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2 measures of risk
Definition
1. Average expected rate of return
2. Beta (compares a given asset to a portfolio)
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Security market line
Definition
defines the relationship between avg expected rate of return and risk levels that must hold for all assets and all portfolios trading in the financial market
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AER12
Definition
Rate the compare for time preference
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Trade deficit
Definition
Import exceed export
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Trade surplus
Definition
Export exceed import
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Principal exports
Definition
Chemicals, agr products, aircraft, comsumer, durables, service
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Principle Imporr
Definition
Automobiles, metals, HH apliances, Computeres, petrolium
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US main trading partner
Definition
CANADA
Term
3 facts that lead to trade
Definition
1. The distribution of natural, human, and capital resources in uneven across nations
2. There are difference in technology across nations and efficient prod requires diff techonology
3. people prefer products that may not domestic
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Labor intensive goods
Definition
Textiles, electronics, toys, apperal, sporting goods
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Land intensive goods
Definition
Beef, wool, meat
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Capital intensive goods
Definition
Airplanes, auto, agr equip, machines, chemicals
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Absolute advantage
Definition
when a country is the most efficient producer of a product
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comperative advantage
Definition
when a country can produce at a lower opportunity cost than another country
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2 types of tariff
Definition
1. A revenue tariff- tariff on a good not produced domesticalle
2. Protective tariff- tariff to shild domestic producers from foreign competition
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Import quata
Definition
a limit on the quantity of items imported
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Nontariff barrier
Definition
licesing requirement of unreasonable standard perramins to product quantity or even bureacratic delay in custum
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Voluntary export restriction
Definition
agreed to by exports to avoid strigent tariff or quatas
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Export subsidy
Definition
govt payment to a domestic producers of export goods to aid that product
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Decline in consumption
Definition
with free trade US consumes 25 t shirts w teriff we now cosume 20 tshirts
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increased domestic production
Definition
With free trade US producers make 5 tshirts, now they make 10
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Decline in imports
Definition
we now only import 10 tshirts instead of 20 with free trade and the extra you pay for the tshirt goes to the government
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