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Econ Test Unit 4

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