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Honors Econ Unit 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Gross Domestic Product | monetary value of all final goods, services, and structures produced within a country's borders during a one-year period. |
| Intermediate Products | Products that are components of other final products already included in the GDP |
| Real GDP | Gross Domestic Product after adjustments for inflation; same as GDP in constant dollars |
| Nominal GDP | Gross domestic product measured in current prices, unadjusted for inflation |
| GNP | The market value of goods and services produced by labor and property supplied by U.S. residents |
| Net-Exports of Goods and Services | Net expenditures by the output-expenditure model's foreign sector; equal to total exports less total imports |
| Business Cycle | Systematic changes in real GDP marked by alternating periods of expansion and contraction |
| Recession | Decline in real GDP lasting at least two quarters or more |
| Peak | Point in time where real GDP stops expanding and begins to decline |
| Trough | Point in time when real GDP stops declining and begins to expand |
| Expansion | Period of uninterrupted growth of real GDP, industrial production, real income, and employment lasting for several years or more; recovery from recession |
| Depression | State of the economy with large numbers of unemployed, declining real incomes, overcapacity in manufacturing plants, and general economic hardship |
| Inflation | Sustained rise in the general level of prices of goods and services |
| Deflation | Sustained decrease in the general level of the prices of goods and services |
| Price Index | Statistical series used to measure changes in the price level over time |
| Consumer Price Index | used to measure price changes for a market basket of frequently used consumer items |
| Hyperinflation | Abnormal inflation in excess of 500 percent per year; last stage of monetary collapse |
| Stagflation | Combination of stagnant economic growth and inflation |
| Unemployed | State of working for less than one hour per week for pay or profit in a non-family owned business, while being available and having made an effort to find a job during the past month |
| Labor Force | The pool of human beings either in employment or in unemployment |
| Frictional Unemployment | Unemployment caused by workers changing jobs or waiting to go to new ones |
| Structural Unemployment | Unemployment caused by a fundamental change in the economy that reduces demand for some workers |
| Cyclical Unemployment | Unemployment directly related to swings in the business cycle |
| Seasonal Unemployment | Unemployment caused by annual changes in weather or other conditions that prevail at certain times of the year |
| Member Bank | Bank belonging to the Federal Reserve System |
| Require Reserve Ratio | The portion of reservable liabilities that commercial banks must hold onto, rather than lend out or invest |
| Excess Reserves | Financial institution's cash, currency, and reserves in excess of required reserves; potential source of new loans |
| Monetary Policy | Actions by the Federal Reserve System to expand or contract the money supply to affect the cost and availability of credit |
| Interest Rate | The price of credit to a borrower |
| Open Market Operations | Monetary policy in the form of U.S. Treasury bills, or notes, or bond sales and purchases by the Fed |
| Discount Rate | Interest rate that the federal reserve system charges on loans to the nation's financial institutions |
| Prime Rate | Best or lowest interest rate commercial banks charge their customers |
| Federal Reserve System | Privately owned, publicly controlled, central bank of the United States |
| IORB | Interest the Fed pays banks for money held at the Fed |