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Econ Test Unit 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Disposable income | how much money you have after taxes |
| Average propensity to consume | home much you spend on average, consumption/disposable income |
| Average propensity to save | home much you save on average, savings/disposable income |
| APC + APS | = 1 |
| Marginal propensity to consume | how much of each additional dollar you spend, delta consomption/delta desposable income |
| Marginal propensity to save | how much of each additional dollar is saved, delta savings/deltal disposable income |
| MPC + MPS | =1 |
| spending multiplier | 1/mps |
| tax multiplier | -mpc/mps |
| the tax multiplier is always | 1 less than the spending multiplier |
| fiscal policies | government spending or tax policies |
| fiscal policies generally affect | demand |
| what can shift SRAS | less taxes, more subsidies, less regulation |
| increase LRAS? | more education, more tech, natural resources |
| deficit | when you spend more than you have this year |
| surplus | extra money |
| debt | accumulated overtime |
| Phillips curve | summary of unemployemnt and inflation when AD shifts, downward sloping |
| When AD changes there is | a movment along the Phillips curve |
| When SRAS changes there is | a movement of the Phillips curve |
| An increase in SRAS | will increase real GDP but not the price level |
| An increase in AD | will increase real GDP and price level |
| Examples of automatic stabilizers | progressive personal income tax, unemployment compensation |
| contractionary policy | reduces aggregate demand, high taxes less spending, fixes inflation |
| expansionary fiscal policy | increase AD, lower taxes more spending, fix recession |
| Discresionary | gov takes deliberate action |
| automatic | built in to ecnonomy, no new policies |
| crowding out | government increases borrowing, raising interst rates and pushing people out of the economony |
| loanable funds graph | real interst rate vs quanitity loanable funds, Supply vs Demand |