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AP Econ in the News
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Change: article explores the relationship between international trade and conflict. The author finds that high levels of trade acts as an accelerator for either cooperation or
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Fixed Exchange Rates
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Apr 28 2008, 10:23 AM EDT |
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Supply and Demand analysis of exports and imports
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Apr 28 2008, 10:20 AM EDT |
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Change:Pd.Pd. With trade, American firms will produce Q1 cars as they import the rest at the price of Pw. With trade, Q3 -Q1 cars will be imported in order to suffice the demand at Price level Pw.Pw. NOTE: SworldSworld
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The Case for Protection
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Apr 28 2008, 10:13 AM EDT |
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AP Econ in the News - Macro Unit IV and V: Inflation, Unemployment, and Economic Growth
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Apr 10 2008, 11:44 AM EDT |
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Change:The rapidly growing economies of the Middle East are experiencing demand pull inflation as the price of food and other day-to-day basis commodities are skyrocketing
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Production Possibilities Analysis
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Apr 10 2008, 11:29 AM EDT |
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Change:be willing to hire people in the labor force. If the labor force simply expands but no one is willing to hire them, then they will be left unemployed. Labor and Productivity Real GDP = hours of work X labor productivityhours of labor input depend
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The Phillips Curve: Unemployment / Inflation relationship
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Apr 10 2008, 11:27 AM EDT |
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Change:phillipsPhillips curve. (increase in inflation but decrease in UE rate) However, when AS shifts to the left due to decrease in productivity, and increase is input prices, the phillipsPhillips curve shift rightwards restoring to the natural rate of unemployment. Thus, the phillipsPhillips curve's long
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Applying the Extended AD/AS Model
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Apr 10 2008, 11:25 AM EDT |
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Macro Unit 3 AP Economics in the News:
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Mar 17 2008, 10:13 AM EDT |
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Change:To try to save the nation from growing recession, the Fed has announced a plan to lend money to investment banks in order to stimulate
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Monetary Policy, Real GDP, and the Price Level
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Mar 17 2008, 10:06 AM EDT |
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Change:decrease discount rate => excess reserves decrease=>Federal funds increase => Money Supply decrease=> interest rate increase => Investment decrease=> Aggregate Demand decrease(because investment is determinent of AD)=>Y falls, UE rises, PL falls .Most important aspect of this is combatting overheating and inflation.
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Tools of Monetary Policy
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Mar 17 2008, 10:05 AM EDT |
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Change:Reserve Ratio-Definition- the interest rate the Federal Reserve charges on loans to banks and thrifts. - The fed manipulate (by lowering or increasing) the reserve ratio in order to influence the ability of commercial banks to lend. Eg. If a bank's balance sheet
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Interest Rates
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Mar 17 2008, 10:02 AM EDT |
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Change:fixed.fixed Becausebecause there areis only so much money printed andmoney circulating in the economy.**The Demand for Money:Transactions Demand: The demand for money as a medium of exchange The main determinant is nominal GDP. The larger the nominal
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Macro Unit II AP Econ in the News
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Feb 28 2008, 7:14 AM EST |
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Change:Increases in the price levels of oil have caused runaway inflation in the Middle East, and now the people are forced to choose between food
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Equilibrium and Changes in Equilibrium
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Feb 28 2008, 7:05 AM EST |
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Change:because there is: there is cost-push inflation recessiondecrease andin negativereal GDP gapStagflation- Period with low, no, or negative output,output; rising price levels (inflation),(inflation); and increasing unemployment Increases in AS: full-employment with price-level stability: Normally, a shift of the
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Aggregate Supply
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Feb 28 2008, 7:02 AM EST |
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Change: Under the assumption of ceterusCeterus parabis, Aggregate Supply in the long run is vertical at the economy's full-employment output because resources and capital are at full capacity; thus, if one company attempts to attract workers through increasing wages, employees from other firms will come, not new workers. Therefore
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Aggregate Demand
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Feb 28 2008, 6:59 AM EST |
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Change:spending caused by a determinantspending, ofwhich aggregateare demandmagnified andthrough the subsequent multiplier effect.effect Consumer spending: Consumer Wealth: Consumer wealth includes both financial assets and physical assets. A sharp increase in
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Macro Unit 1 AP Econ in the News
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Feb 10 2008, 8:28 PM EST |
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Change:Many economists see the Recession in the US as a possible rerun of the 1990's for Japan, where they too had a housing-based recession. However,
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Unemployment
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Feb 10 2008, 8:11 PM EST |
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Change: Some frictional and structural unemployment is necessary for short-term growth. Potential output- at the Natural Rate of Unemployment (NRU), the economy is said to be proudcing its greatest potential output. The NRU is different between countries; Canada's NRU, for instance, is not the same as the United StatesEconomic
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Shortcomings of GDP
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Feb 10 2008, 8:09 PM EST |
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Change: in GDP per capita, and vice versa, depending on population growth.Noneconomic sources of well-being Just as a household's income does not measure its total happiness, a nation's GDP does not measure its total well-being. There are many things that could make
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Nominal vs. Real GDP
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Feb 10 2008, 8:06 PM EST |
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Change:the change inshow the priceincrease or leveldecrease betweenin years.production. when prices rise, deflate GDP when prices fall,inflate GDP GDP price index: A Price Index is a measure, or ratio, of the price of a
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