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Econ Test 2
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Economics
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Term
GDP or gross domestic product
Definition
Market value of the final goods and services produced within a country in a given time period.
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Market Value
Definition
The prices at which items are traded in markets
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Final good
Definition
an item that is bought by its final user during a specified time period.
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Intermediate good
Definition
Which is an item that is produced by one firm, bought by another firm, and used as a component of a final good or service.
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Double counting
Definition
counting a intermediate good as something separate when it is already included in the count of the final good.
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Consumption expenditure
Definition
Total payment for these goods and services is consumption expenditure.
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Investment
Definition
The purchase of new plant, equipment, and buildings and additions to inventories.
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Government expenditure
Definition
Goods and services bought by the government.
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Exports
Definition
goods and services sold to the rest of the world
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imports
Definition
goods and services bought from the rest of the world
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Net exports
Definition
the value of exports (x) minus the value of imports (m)
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Aggregate expenditure
Definition
sum of the red arrows.
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Depreciation
Definition
decrease in the value of a firm's capital that results from wear and tear and obsolescence.
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gross investment
Definition
the total amount spent both buying new capital and replacing depreciated capital.
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net investment
Definition
the amount by which the value of capital increases is called net investment
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Expenditure approach
Definition
Measures GDP as the sum of consumption expenditure, investment, government expenditure, and net exports of goods and services.

C + I + G + X - M
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Income approach
Definition
Measures GDP by summing the incomes that firms pay households for the services of the factors of production they hire- wages for labor, interest for capital, rent for land, and profit for entrepreneurship. Must add depreciation make equal to expenditure approach GDP.
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Real GDP
Definition
Value of final goods and services produced in a given year when valued at the prices of a reference base year.
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Nominal GDP
Definition
Value of final goods and services produced in a given year when valued at the prices of that year.
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Real GDP per person
Definition
Real GDP divided by population
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Business cycle
Definition
a periodic but irregular up and down movement of total production and other measures of economic activity. two phases, expansion and recession. two turning points, peak and trough.
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Expansion
Definition
Real GDP increases. Real GDP returns to potential GDP, potential GDP grows, Real GDP exceeds potential GDP
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Recession
Definition
Real GDP decreases (2 consecutive quarters)
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