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| Own-Price Elasticity of Demand |
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| % Change in Demand / % Change in price |
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| How is "Percent Change" calculated when dealing with Elasticity? |
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Change in value / Average value
[Ending value-beginning value] / [(ending value+beginning value) / 2] |
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| Slope of the Demand Function |
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Change in Demand / Change in Price
**Not percent |
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| Income Elasticity of Demand |
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| % Change in quantity demanded / % change in income |
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| Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand |
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| % Change in demand / % Change in price of substitute or complement |
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| Total Revenue - Total Accounting Costs |
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Total Revenue - Total Economic Costs
Total Economic Costs aka explicit + implicit cost |
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| Accounting Profit - Economic Profit |
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| Price times quantity or the sum of individual units sold times their respective prices |
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| Total Revenue divided by quantity |
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| Change in total revenue divided by change in quantity |
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| Sum of all fixed expenses; includes all opportunity costs |
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| Sum of all variable expenses, or per unit variable cost times quantity |
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| Total fixed cost plus total variable cost |
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| Total fixed cost divided by quantity |
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| Total variable cost divided by quantity |
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| Total cost divided by quantity |
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| Change in total cost divided by change in quantity |
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| Marginal Revenue Product of labor |
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MRP of labor = change in total revenue / change in quantity of labor
Marginal product * Product price (when a firm's in perfect competition) |
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| Profit maximization with MRP |
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Profits are maximized when:
(MRP1 / Price of input 1) = (MRPn / Price of input n) |
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| Relationship between MR and price elasticity |
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| N-firm concentration ratio |
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Computes the aggregate market share of the N largest firms in the industry.
Ratio will equal 0 for perfect competition and 100 for a monopoly |
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| Herfindahl-Hirschman Index |
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Adds up the squares of the market shares of each of the largest N companies in the market.
Equals 1 for a monopoly. |
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Value of goods and services included in GDP measured at current prices
Nominal GDP = quantity produced in Year t * Prices in Year t |
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Refers to the value of goods included in GDP measured at base-year prices
Real GDP = Quantity produced in Year t * Base-year prices |
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[Value of current year output at current year prices / value of current year output at base year prices] * 100
[Nominal GDP / Real GDP] * 100 |
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GDP = C + I + G + (X - M)
C = consumer spending on final goods and services
I = gross private domestic investment, which includes business investment in capital goods and changes in inventory
G = government spending on final goods and services
X = exports
M = imports |
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| Expenditure Approach of GDP Calculation |
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GDP = consumer spending on goods and services
+ Business gross fixed investment
+ Change in inventories
+ Government spending on goods and services
+ Government gross fixed investment
+ Exports - imports
+ Statistical discrepancy |
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| Income Approach of GDP Calculation |
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| National income + Capital consumption allowance + Statistical discrepancy |
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Sum of incomes received by all factors of production used to generate final output
Employee compensation, corporate and government enterprise profits before taxes, interest income, rent and unincorporated business net income, indirect business taxes less subsidies |
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| Capital consumption allowance |
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Accounts for the wear and tear or depreciation that occurs in capital stock during the production process.
Represents the amount that must be reinvested by the company in the business to maintain current productivity levels |
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| National Income - Indirect business taxes - corporate income taxes - undistributed corporate profits + transfer payments |
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| Personal disposable income |
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Personal income - personal taxes
aka
Houseold consumption + Household saving |
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| Personal disposable income - consumption expenditures - interest paid by consumers to businesses - personal transfer payments to foreigners |
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| Undistributed corporate profits + capital consumption allowance |
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| Household consumption + total private sector saving + Net taxes |
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| Equality of expenditure and income |
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S = I + (G - T) + (X - M)
S is savings? I is investment or income? |
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Relationship between income and the Real Interest Rate
Disposable income = GDP - Business saving - Net taxes
S - I = (G - T) + (X - M) |
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MV = PY M/P and Md/P = kY
Where:
k = I/V
M = Nominal money supply
Md = Nominal money demand
Md/P is referred to as real money demand and M/P is real money supply |
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| Solow (neoclassical) growth model |
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Y = AF(L,K)
Where:
Y = aggregate output
L = quantity of labor
K = quantity of capital
A = technological knowledge or total factor productivity (TFP) |
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| Growth Accounting Equation |
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Growth in potential GDP = Growth in technology + WL(Growth in Labor) + WK(Growth in Capital)
Growth in per capital potential GDP = Growth in technology + WK(Growth in capital-labor ratio |
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| Measures of Sustainable Growth |
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| Labor Productivity Potential GDP |
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| Real GDP / Aggregate hours |
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| Aggregate hours * Labor productivity |
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| Potential GDP Growth rate |
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| Long-term growth rate of labor force + Long-term labor productivity growth rate |
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ULC = W/O
Where:
O = output per hour per worker
W = total labor compensation per hour per worker |
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| Required reserve / Total Deposits |
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Nominal interest rate (RN) reflects the real interest rate (RR) and the expected inflation rate (∏C)
RN = RR + ∏C |
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Ignoring taxes:
1/(1-MPC)
Assuming taxes:
1/[1 - MPC(1-t)] |
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| Balance of Payment Components |
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Current Account
Capital Account
Financial Account |
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| Balance largely reflects trade in goods and services |
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| Blaance mainly consists of capital transfers and net sales of non-produced, non-financial assets |
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| Measures net capital flows based on sales and purchases of domestic and foreign financial assets |
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SDC/FC * (PFC / PDC)
SDC/FC = Nominal Spot exchange rate
PFC = foreign price level (quoted in terms of the foreign currency)
PDC = Domestic price level (qutoed in terms of the domestic currency) |
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FDC/FC = (1 / SFC/DC) * [(1 + rDC) / (1 + rFC)]
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FDC/FC = SDC/FC * [(1 + rDC) / (1 + rFC)] |
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| Forward Rate as expected future spot rate |
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Ft = St+1
[(St + 1) / S] - 1 = % change in S(DC/FC)t + 1 = (rDC - rFC) / (1 + rFC) |
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| Marshall-Lerner condition |
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ωXεX + ωM(εM - 1) > 0
Where:
ωX = Share of exports in total trade
ωM = Share of imports in total trade
εX = Price elasticity of demand for exports
εM = Price elasticity of demand for imports |
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