| Question | Answer |
| Determinants of Demand | PASIFIC
Population
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Substitutes
Income
Fashion and trends
Interest Rates
Complements |
| Determinants of Supply | PINTS WC
Productivity (Labour/Capital)
Indirect Tax
No. Firms
Technology
Subsidy
Weather
Costs of production (oil, wages) |
| Price Elasticity of Demand | SPLAT
Substitutes
Percentage of income
Luxury/Normal
Addiction / habit forming
Time |
| Price Elasticity of Supply | PSSST
Production Lag
Stock
Substitutabilaty of FoPs
Spare Capacity
Time |
| Total Renue | Elastic Only; Itchy Skin
Elastic PED, opposite. P down TR up
Inelastic Same. P up TR up |
| Types of National economy measures | Nominal GDP: The value of all goods and services produced in an economy. 2.56tn
Real GDP: Inflation adjusted
GNP: Labour and land of citizens inc. overseas
GNI: Income of all citizens of a country. Inc. taxes/subsidies |
| Full employment income | The total income at the natural rate of unemployment. |
| Savings/investment case study | Savings=investment as banks invest money, which is generally not stagnant. UK has low MPS so low investment, while Japan has high MPS so high investment which means LRAS can grow more continuously. |
| Aggregate demand | Total demand for a country's goods and services at a given price level in a given time period. SPENDING not quantity
C+I+G+(X-M) |
| Consumption (Determinants) | Just over 65% UK AD. Discretionary after tax and rent etc. Interest rates (Monetary Policy Committee) Eval - anticpated future i/r. Confidence (American<should be). Wealth a/depreciation. |
| Investment | 17%. 25% this from gov investment. Retained profits. Expectations/confidence. Demand for exports. i/r & credit access. Corporate tax, subsidy and policy. %return expected must be > i/r. Predicted consumption. Accelerator |
| Gov spending | 20%, more since Cov and labour. £1.222tn. Doesn't include social protection or investment, with which it would be 45%. Provision of public goods. Health isnt but is made accessible. Very large debt - £100bn repayment. Current and capital expenditure |
| (X-M) | -2%. For Netherlands each individually greater than 100%. |
| Accelerator | I depends on AD and is a component of AD creating something of a positive feedback loop. This makes I fairly volatile bc the loop is bidirectional. |
| Price mechanism acronym | ARSI: Allocate scarce resources, Ration scarce resources (demand side), Signal the change, Incentivise based on profits (suppliers). |
| Producer and consumer surpluss | Triangles on the diagram which represent the number of consumers/producers who are interacting with the market at a lower/higher price respectively than they were willing. Society surplus is their sum. |
| Economies of scale | Really Fun Mums Try Making Pies |
| RFMTMP | Risk bearing
Financial loans
Managerial
Technological
Marketing
Purchasing bulk |
| Diseconomies of scale | CCC
Control
Coordination
Communication |
| Monopoly power | BAND
Barriers to entry
Advertising
No. Firms
Differentiation of product |