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Macro Lesson 5
GDP
Question | Answer |
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Gross Domestic Product or GDP | is the total market value of the goods and services produced within the United States in a year. |
Consumption | spending (as defined by the expenditure approach) is private spending on final goods and services. |
Investment | (as defined by the expenditure approach) spending is private spending on tools, plant, and equipment used to produce future output. |
Imports | are goods and services produced in a foreign country that are purchased domestically. |
Finished Goods or Services | are those that will not be sold again as part of some other good. |
The Expenditure Approach | calculates GDP by summing household consumption spending, investment expenditures, purchases by governments, and net exports. The equation is written as: C + I + G + (X-M) = GDP. This is also called the national spending approach. |
Government Purchases | are spending my all levels of government on final goods and services. Transfers are not included in government purchases. |
Net Exports | is shorthand for the expression exports - imports or X-M. |
Exports | are goods and services produced domestically that are purchased by someone in another country. |
Intermediate Goods | refer to partially finished goods that are then used as an input to the production of other goods that become final goods. |
Nominal GDP | is the total market value of the goods and services produced within the United States in a year using the market prices during the period being measured. |
Real GDP per capita | is real GDP divided by a country’s population. |
Real GDP | is the total market value of the goods and services produced within the United States in a year adjusted for changes in the price level relative to the base year. |
Inflation | is a general increase in the overall price level of the goods and services in the economy. |